Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.

Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”

Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”

He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”

This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    Can we stop lumping Mr Fetterman in with Democrats? The only thing marking him as a Democrat is a sign on his door, and it’s only blue because he’d already eaten the red Crayola.

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      Well why not? Have the democrats kicked him out of their party? If not then this behaviour is literally condoned by democrats.

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    What a fucking disappointment. I hope when his term is up, he just crawls back into whatever cave he emerged from. Fucking cave troll-ass

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      “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”

      It’s even worse when you use the original order of words.

      There is nothing “just” about any war, especially not this one.

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    Wtf happened to this guy? I’ll admit I didn’t follow him closely but wasn’t he vaguely progressive and had common sense? I know he had a stroke but does stroking out make you start acting like a total asshole?

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      No, he was a zionist who had chased a black man through his neighborhood with a shotgun because he assumed the man was robbing people before he was elected. But his primary opponent was also a racist receiving AIPAC money, and he said some vague pro-union things and changed his PFP to a hammer and sickle so everyone either looked the other way and pretended he was more left than he showed, or at least he was the lesser evil.

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      literal brain damage, yes. it’s not entirely shocking for someone to become a conservative when their brain is no longer working properly. plus it makes one easier to manipulate, which is also a conservative trait.

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      People are too willing to project all their hopes onto politicians, and always end up disappointed.

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    Dude! Just because you’re Jewish doesn’t mean you have to follow blindly. Fucking people and their tribalism. Look a Bernie, Jon Stewart etc they have eyes. Fuck Jerry Seinfeld.

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      He does. It’s an ethnocult. They even brand their children as members of the cult through genital mutilation. 100% child abuse and very hard for the abused child to escape from. He’s a victim of his horrible parents and their sick cult.

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        I’m 100000% against this genocide and anyone who is for it.

        But this is straight racism / antisemitism.

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    Politicians are always keen on those “Fact-Finding Missions”. Usually they go to expensive cruises or resorts, but maybe you can send him to find some facts in Gaza, personally, and see if this changes his opinion.

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    I remember when he got popular, i kept thinking “this silver spoon baby just put on a hoodie and shorts and everyone thinks he’s one of us?” I would get downvoted on Reddit for saying it was all an act, a smokescreen to ingratiate himself with voters on the left. Bet you he’s happy to wear a suit when he sucks Putin’s dick