Not fucking obvoously. Since these kinds of arguments led us to trump 2.0. So thanks for that.
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givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoThere can be multiple assholes…
Like, Biden literally violated the Leahy law
(a) IN GENERAL. – No assistance shall be furnished under this Act or the Arms Export Control Act to any unit of the security forces of a foreign country if the Secretary of State has credible information that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leahy_Law
There was credible evidence US weapons were used in Israels’s genocide of Palestinians.
Congress didn’t immediately approve more aid, so Biden unilaterally (and illegally) went around Congress to provide arms that then were used to commit genocide.
Is trump worse?
Fucking obviously.
But Joe Biden is a fucking monster and Kamala repeatedly and proudly told anyone that would listen she’d be exactly the same.
Zexks@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
locuester@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
The truth led us to Trump, so we should conceal it instead? What garbage.
rumba@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Locucester in a previous post: I don’t follow much politics, and I dont follow political history either.
Well, that fucking scans.
locuester@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
So because I dont follow politics, my opinion that we shouldn’t conceal history is invalid?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The Secretary of State is appointed by the President though.
And I’m certain they argued there was no credible information Israel committed gross violations of human rights. Maybe it was only “normal” violations of human rights. Or maybe the information was somewhat incredible. Or maybe the Secretary of State said “LALALALALALALA” and closed their eyes and ears when presented with information so they didn’t technically have it.
EisFrei@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
How far back do we need to go until we find a president that didn’t commit a war crime?
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You could make a case for the Carter administration. The worst knocks against him were arms sales to Indonesia after their invasion of East Timor and to the Shah before the Iranian Revolution. Probably some reactionary leaders in South America too.
Besides that you’d have to go all the way back to Hoover who may have been completely unequipped to resolve the Great Depression but did do a ton of work with humanitarian food aid during and in the wake of the First World War. It’s very likely he saved tens of millions of lives from starvation.
njm1314@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wow you’re really softballing the fact that Carter helped commit genocide there.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think the blame mostly lies on Ford there, and I’d say my response speaks more to how low of a bar modern presidencies have set rather than my feelings on East Timor.