• EchoCT@lemmy.ml
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    You do realize Biden has announced his support for denouncing the ICC for this very action by the House right? He absolutely should be held to account for it.

    EDIT: Ok pedants, Sanction and ‘denounce’ are not the same - I get it. One has actual limitations preventing us from interacting with the people who don’t even want to come here anyway.

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      5 months ago

      If you scroll up a bit, someone else was kind enough to post Biden’s quote opposing this piece of legislation.

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        Fair but the detail is irrelevant in this particular case.

        “We support international law…” “Except when we don’t.”

        Why even pretend?

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          Is that a sourced quote from Biden or the administration, or are you just making up a quote to get mad at?

          There’s plenty of room to criticize Biden for his actual actions in the Israel-Palestine conflict. No need to make shit up.

          In fact, the only reason I could think to do so would be if you were his political opponent. Like, hypothetically speaking, if I were a conservative on the Internet trying to undermine Biden’s support and also draw attention away from the fact that it’s Republicans in the House doing this, I might (hypothetically) post this article with a purposefully vague headline and a picture of Biden on the Internet. Seems doing something like that would serve GOP goals rather nicely, wouldn’t it?

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            Ah the everlasting if you’re not with us you’re against us argument. Classy.

            Maybe, just maybe, I don’t think we should be supporting genocide; even when it’s “our team” - since apparently that’s the only way y’all see it.

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              Maybe it’s just me, but I’m failing to see how accusing Biden of supporting things that he has explicitly condemns is going to help stop genocide here?

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                Sanction, Denounce, it all boils down to “The ICC can fuck itself, we do what we want; and what we want is to support the genocide of the Palestinian people.”

                If your argument boils down to near meaningless (there is a hassle for ICC members with the sanction) pedantry, then your argument sucks.

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      Come on, you can’t just expect .world users to actually read or think critically like that

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        The folks who can tell the difference between “denounce” and “sanction” are the ones who can’t think critically?

        Good one.