EmptySlime

Literally from your link they quote him saying.

...but it does not have the right to use US dollars to kill thousands of innocent men, women, and children in Gaza.

But Oh No he didn't say the Magic Word to the press 2 months in when we still have 0 idea what internal discussions were happening. Can't give the guy with probably the longest track record of being on the right side of pretty much every issue any benefit of the doubt. Especially not when he has before been very vocal about Palestinian rights. Couldn't possibly be any good reason he didn't use the Magic Purity Word.

Color me surprised. A video with a hostile interviewer trying to bait him into making statements that paint pro-Palestinian sentiment as pro-Hamas and him predictably navigating the "do you condemn Hamas?" traps.

Of course that outweighs him using the power he has to try to block 20 billion dollars worth of weapons. Heaven forbid he try to be an effective advocate and not demonstrate perfect ideological purity in every interview and talk no matter how it might impede him actually trying to fucking do something about it.

More entirely missing the point. He was literally one of the only voices trying to block weapons to Israel. But no, he didn't stop them entirely on his own or call Biden "Genocide Joe" so that must mean he supports the genocide.

It's really starting to sound like there's literally nothing he could have done that would have been good enough for you.

My Sibling in Satan, how do you think making these demands work? This is an asymmetrical fight. Most of the time you won't get a direct answer because the politicians are playing a different game. By and large they won't commit to anything before the election that might alienate large sections of voters one way or the other.

Electoral politics is about choosing your battlefield for the action to come. In a presidential election it is a mathematical fact that there are only two viable options. Yes, they're both captured to varying degrees by capital. But you can get a sense of who is more likely to accept the things you want.

There was 0 chance of the Republicans stopping what's happening in Gaza for example. Clearly the chance was at least close to 0 with the Democrats but they were more vulnerable on that front and almost certainly they at least wouldn't be trying to send pro-Palestinian activists to a gulag in El Salvador. So given this context which is the more advantageous battlefield you try to advocate on? There is a correct answer here and it's the Democrats.

Is it fair? Absolutely not. Are you running the risk of getting them elected and still not doing what you want? Yep. But a risk they won't listen is objectively better than a guarantee the Republicans won't listen. This is why electoral politics cannot be the only arena where we're fighting, but it's an arena we still have to fight on because it determines the battlefield other action takes place on.

A bunch of comments going for the "why would you buy toilet paper that already has shit on it" route, but I can't believe nobody went for calling this a shit(tickets) post.

You mean things like Single-Payer Healthcare, Housing as a Human Right, increasing the minimum wage, or any of the myriad of other policy positions that he talks about every time he talks basically anywhere? That thing he already does?

Honestly I feel like it would hurt his ego more to be reduced to a generic Republican. I feel like he hates nothing more than getting ignored.

Uh Eternity I think it's called? Maybe I'll give Voyager a try.

Luckily it would be really hard for them to actually get rid of it. I wouldn't put it past them to try to start doing summary executions or just illegally trying to detain people without trial or whatever but there's 0 chance they get the support to actually remove that amendment.

That's what it sounded like to me too. Like I said maybe I'm being naive and being too charitable but I don't think I am.

Mine is supposed to. Idk why it doesn't sometimes. It's only supposed to not be blurred if I'm scrolling inside an NSFW community. I'm pretty sure all the posts it's happened with have been properly marked NSFW. But multiple times I've gotten jumpscared with it.

Yeah I'm a bit too naive maybe but even at the time I couldn't imagine him actually throwing Kyle under the bus. So it always read to me like Jack was trying to make sure some MAGA psycho didn't come shoot a bunch of people at one of their shows and he didn't actually have a real problem with what Kyle said. I'm glad they are actually back performing together.