The United States has announced the approval of the sale of more than $7.4bn in bombs, missiles and related equipment to Israel, which has used American-made weapons to devastating effect during the war in Gaza.
The state department has signed off on the sale of $6.75bn in bombs, guidance kits and fuses, in addition to $660m in Hellfire missiles, according to the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).
The proposed sale of the bombs “improves Israel’s capability to meet current and future threats, strengthen its homeland defense, and serves as a deterrent to regional threats”, the DSCA said in a statement.
Many people are rehashing it in defense, because these posts always start with assigning blame for not voting in Harris.
It would be great if the Democratic Party started running a more popular platform and won the election by something other than begrudging lesser-of-two-evils votes. Obama’s first term showed how powerful that could be.
Hopefully the Democratic Party has learned that bringing a status-quo to a populist fight isn’t a good idea, but I’m not holding my breath on that anymore.
Everyone here’s rehashed and rehashed and rehashed, I’ve seen the same people come back with the same things over and over again on these threads.
I mean it’s cathartic to a point but damn, one thing you don’t see a lot of “what the fuck am I going to do about it”. Well outside of those going I’m never going to vote again people.
The Democratic party isn’t going to do a thing on their own at this point, leadership is too old, ineffective, unwilling to change without a shit ton of external stimulus. Had a nice discussion thread about calling your rep and yeah, kind of came to the conclusion that the Democrats should be doing this on their own but they’re just too dumb and scared so I’m going to call them even though I’m never going to like them.
For me, I’m also going to increase my donation to progressive groups this year because unfortunately moving to another country isn’t in the cards for me and then maybe phone bank again, though that’s going to be rough because damn voters are stupid.