No, that is not quite right.
It is pretty comical to be constantly called self righteous by someone literally plugging their ears to crow about their superiority. I suppose this is enough to call everyone who chastises us hypocrites?
It's absolutely bonkers to me that Liberals watched Biden set the foundation for what Trump is continuing and go "Har har guess you should have voted Harris!!!"
You say "middle eastern leaders are just less naive", but middle Eastern leaders-- including Hamas-- are treating this as an escalation. "Pouring oil on the fire" was the term, I believe.
They also didn't approach the scale of what Biden did. You seem confused. It's not that this isn't an escalation, it's that it's the exact same escalation that Kamala would be doing if she were elected. People crowing about "hOw DoEs YoUr VoTe FeEl NoW" are only showing their ignorance on the topic. This was expected. This is why Jill Stein was the correct choice. Because this escalation was inevitable between Kamala or Trump.
I'm watching several people say outright that Harris would have been better, that Trump's escalation is unique.
Given that Harris lost the election anyway, losing it for opposing genocide seems better than losing it for supporting genocide.
Well it’s a little difficult to imagine anyone else being elected President seriously suggesting the US annex the Gaza Strip.
And yet that's what was happening, or at least Israel annexing it on behalf of the US. I'd honestly call it a lateral move, either way you're ethnic cleansing and Trump was getting his tower there.
I guess I'm just reading them as saying that Trump isn't an improvement or that he's in fact pushing what's going on, not necessarily that Biden/Harris would be better. Maybe that's just semantics, though, or I'm just reading it wrong.
No that's fair.
When I see posts like that, it feels like I'm not reading into it to say that they're saying Harris would have been better here.
Not quite true; American military assistance to Israel was similar (or even briefly higher) in the 1970s-- and not just during the war.
OK, well that's speculation. There was no statement or rhetoric that matched this until now. Biden-- even during his wretched, indefensible provision of these bombs-- said Palestinians must be allowed to live in and rule Gaza. The rhetoric has shifted.
To be clear, that crowing is really misguided. It feels like co-opting or using their suffering as petty ammunition. I don't like it-- and I feel exactly the same way about the crowing from Tippy, and the insistence on blaming Democrat voters for what the Republicans are doing.
