• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      13 days ago

      Yeah, and it doesn’t matter if the politicians overseeing those times are “boring”

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        12 days ago

        Biden was boring. It was a welcome reprieve from daily scandals and, at minimum, monthly constitutional crises. Now we’re moving to weekly constitutional crises. Functional government is boring. It’s mostly bureaucratic regulatory bookkeeping.

        It’s certainly possible to not be boring in a positive way, for instance if a politician is loudly advocating for radical positive change. But statistically speaking, boring is less harmful than the alternative.

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            12 days ago

            So did every president since Israel existed. The non-boring president didn’t stop that genocide, he blocked a lot of aid we were sending Ukraine, and unblocked a lot of aid we weren’t sending Israel. At least Biden wasn’t trying to turn Gaza into his own resort. This is objectively worse than boring Biden.

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              12 days ago

              So did every president since Israel existed

              I’m comfortable writing off anyone trying to claim the last year and a half in Gaza is just “business as usual” is a genocide denying fascist who would have said of the Holocaust “eh, Jews have been descriminated against in Germany for centuries”.

              Like, you don’t even deserve to live, let alone have a “boring government”.

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                12 days ago

                It’s not the first time it’s extended beyond “business as usual”. And you conveniently ignored the fact that it’s even worse now. Boring is a spectrum.

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                  12 days ago

                  When was the last time Israel killed ten percent of the population in Gaza in under a year?

                  You were the one ignoring the fact that it’s even worse now, mate, not me. Unless you’re trying to say it’s worse under Trump, in which case, no, it’s the same, you were just (more of) a genocide denier when it was your team doing it