President Biden vowed on Monday to veto a House Republican bill that would provide $17.6 billion in aid to Israel, calling it a “cynical political maneuver” intended to hurt the chances of passage for broader legislation that would provide money for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the U.S. border.

House Republicans fiercely oppose the larger bill, which was unveiled by a small, bipartisan group of senators over the weekend. It calls for $118.3 billion in spending and would overhaul some of the nation’s immigration laws to deal with recent surges of migrants at the southern border.

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  • uienia@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Being gullible is also the exact opposite of being a critical thinker. And it is being very gullible to somehow still let the Republicans benefit from your doubt, despite knowing exactly why they are why they are and why they have been doing what they have been doing for decades now. And know that the factors which makes them that way has only increased the last couple of years.

    But then again you are not really being gullible, are you, you are just being disingenous.

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      9 months ago

      This is the same type of argument I come across when debating against COVID disinformation and climate change: politicians and/or scientists were wrong/exaggerated some things in the past, so that gives me the right to reject the facts now.

      When were really hate a group of people, usually the reason is that we are much more like them than we are willing to admit.

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        9 months ago

        Ive given the GOP rhetoric plenty of tine to simmer. I was born and raised in it.

        It’s bullshit. It’s a pyramid scheme cult.

        No matter what the words say, the agenda is unchanged.

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          9 months ago

          Okay you reject their worldview. What does this have to do with my point?

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            9 months ago

            You claimed the reason we don’t trust them now is hate, hate that blinds us.

            My point is the reason we don’t trust them is historical evidence.

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              You claimed the reason we don’t trust them now is hate, hate that blinds us.

              No I didn’t. I said that when we hate a group of people it’s usually because we are more like them then we are willing to admit.

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          9 months ago

          The scale is inconsequential when it comes to ignoring facts because you believe someone lied to you in the past. The fact that this needs to be explained is kind of embarrassing.

          • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Scale, context and nuance is absolutely everything, thinking in absolutist black and white terms makes you a child that just parrots without an ounce of critical thought, assuming that statements that are applicable to some situations are right for other situations, this is self-evident to everyone here except you, hence you’re getting clowned on.

            Hope that explains it!