Why does that bullshit about Reagan keep popping up?
First of all, that was prior to the start of the Israel-Iran proxy conflict in 1985 that is still occurring today.
Secondly, Reagan cut back foreign aid, which included humanitarian aid, from Israel and then provided military aid under the express agreement that they use it to attack Lebanon.
He wasn’t “being tough” on Israel. He was telling them where to point their weapons.
Zehzin@lemmy.world 6 months ago
How fucked are we that we can point to Reagan and say “do what this guy did”
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s the natural result of decades of the only standard being “I like the letter by their name”.
Shitty people will always win in a race where cheating is legal. And as the DNC loves to point out: primaries aren’t real elections and they can just ignore results if they want, so cheating is fine.
They stopped short of saying “only an idiot would think primaries matter” but unfortunately I don’t think we’re that far away from it.