• Franklin@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    If anyone actually wants to stop the genocide in Gaza please vote out your republican congressman, almost every Republican congressman supported the resolution to restart weapons shipments and almost every democrat voted against it.

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Well shit, if you have a republican congressman voting then out should already be the default condition.

      checks vote

      And of course Cuellar.

      Just once I’d like to see one of these democrats who break with the party on key issues not get leadership backing to defeat their primary opponent.

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      6 months ago

      This isn’t a republican issue only. Most of congress, both democrats and Republicans have been voting in favor of funding israel. The big problem is that most of our politicians are bought by AIPAC.

      The “anti semitism” bill passed 320-91 in house.

      The 14.3 billon in aid to israel was passed by the house by 366-58. Only 37 Democrats and 21 Republicans opposed the bill.

      Source.

      You can checkout opensecrets.org or https://trackaipac.com/ to see which politicians are getting what from AIPAC.

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        6 months ago

        The 14.3 billon in aid to israel was passed by the house by 366-58. Only 37 Democrats and 21 Republicans opposed the bill.

        These numbers don’t paint the full picture of some Democrats voicing moral objections to human suffering, versus some Republicans who object to the existence of government and will vote against funding for anything.

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      3 days ago

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      6 months ago

      Unfortunately that’s not going to work. Biden’s biggest donors were pissed he even paused the 2,000 pound bombs. Voting out the republicans isn’t going to purge this rot. We’ve worshipped at the altar of money for too long and now we’re going to pay the price. As the old question goes, “What happens when the lords have more power than the king?”