• AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    President Joe Biden called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and voiced his support for student protesters as he delivered the commencement address at one of the nation’s oldest historically Black colleges, Morehouse.

    Mr Biden spent much of the address speaking about the conflict in the Middle East – while also trying to connect with Black voters ahead of the 2024 election – decrying the “humanitarian crisis” in Gaza and saying that the voices of protesters“should be heard”.

    Some graduates and faculty instead told local media outlets that they opposed the college’s dean bestowing an honorary degree on the president as the fighting continues in Gaza with US support.

    Speaking before Mr Biden, valedictorian DeAngelo “DJ” Fletcher urged leaders to seek “an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip” and for the return of hostages held by Hamas.

    Pointing to his predecessor’s allegedly criminal attempts to cling to power and the January 6 Capitol riot, he linked it directly to the anger perpetuated by white supremacists on the far right.

    His evidence for this link were the racist chants endured by Capitol police officers on January 6 2021, many of whom reported and recorded video on their bodycams of rioters screaming racial slurs.


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    Biden: pro-Gaza protesters should be heard!

    NüPrOgrEsSiVes: Shut up, fascist!!

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    “Student voices should be heard. I mean, I’m not going to do anything different, but pretending to care is a core value of the Democratic Party.”

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    “Their voices should be heard. I’m not going to listen to them, or do anything about what they’re saying, but they should be heard”

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    He said. Shortly after, Biden sat down at his desk and approved another sale of $10 billion worth of arms to Israel.

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      Dude when they are actually being silenced though ??? Fuck dude can we appreciate having a president that at least fucking pretends to respect different opinions?

      Don’t stop being critical and always push for better. But damn please do not forget the drastic difference between this peaceful rhetoric vs having your president declare citizens unpatriotic or an enemy, liars, or whatever for disagreeing with him.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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        But damn please do not forget the drastic difference between this peaceful rhetoric vs having your president declare citizens unpatriotic or an enemy, liars, or whatever for disagreeing with him.

        Biden’s supporters on lemmy are doing their best to compensate for this particular oversight on his part.

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        Dude when they are actually being silenced though ???

        When zionists and cops beat the shit out of them and throw them off campus, mostly.

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        He doesn’t even pretend to respect different opinions, the public was wanting some form of universal health Care. He said he would veto it, citizens were saying defund the police. His answer was increased funding by over a hundred times, A very large majority of his own party was calling for a ceasefire. His solution is increased funding and increased weapons. When we try to push for better liberals try to silence us. It’s leftists that are having to do the jobs that liberals wont do for their own party. If liberals spent half as much time holding their politicians accountable as they do punching left we wouldn’t have someone like Trump on his ballot and we wouldn’t have someone like Biden on the ballot. Biden and his party passing resolutions equating anti-zionism to anti-Semitism is calling anti-zionist protesters undemocratic, unpatriotic. And then he tries to lie and gaslight the public by saying that he has seen pictures of be-headed babies when the White House had a back track and say there were no pictures of beheaded babies, but he has had a long long history of habitually lying. Exactly like he did in his speech at Morehouse.

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    Oh, someone that has the power and means to change things should really listen to them, Joe. Right? I wonder who that might be.

    Also, didn’t he just send one more billion worth of weapons to the ethnostate?

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      You act like the only thing he’s done is stop sending arms to israel. The US has done the most for providing aid in gaza by FAR, we just finished a new pier purely for a safer and more consistent vector for delivering said aid to Gazan people who desperately need it.

      I am 100% with Bernie in that any further shipments to Israel must be conditional and obviously that has not happened. Biden isn’t a goddamn beacon of hope and all that is good, but you’re painting him as red as the fuckin devil

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    Well, the police heard those voices and did their god given freedom lovin’ right to do the most American thing ever and use weapons on ‘em.

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    Yeah with state violence from the Police which he will continue increasing funding for. “Restoring the soul of America.” 🙄

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    Most of the campus protests were non-violent, why did the cops come in?

    Maybe if you need to arrest the troublemakers but anything else is not cool man.

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      It’s really insane that the police get called on US citizens peacefully protesting against a genocide in a foreign country.

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      If the school requests they disband or vacate, and the students fail to comply, they can be charged with trespassing. I’m not defending the actions of the college or the police. I’m just stating that the school defines acceptable conduct on its grounds. Even state schools have conduct policies.

      Also, the President does not control the police. They report to the Mayor. If the President dispatched the National Guard, like Trump did to the protesters in Portland and DC, then you could blame Biden.

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        The Biden administration may not be directly responsible, but just like Trump, his endorsement of racism and fascism emboldens the racists and fascists to act more openly.

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          That’s true for racism in regard to Palestinians. They both support Israel. What Trump did by having protesters shot with rubber bullets by the National Guard in DC and driving tanks through Portland was certainly fascist. How has Biden been fascist to protesters?

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            I never said Biden was a fascist, though I am saying that now. Biden is a corporo-fascist, just like nearly every US politician.

            What I said was that he endorses fascism, i.e. a fascist state, i.e. Israel.

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              By definition a liberal is not a fascist.

              You don’t even know what you are talking about.

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                  But he isn’t. You just think he is because you think everyone that disagrees with you is a fascist.

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                  No, I think you should look up the differences between fascists and liberals.

                  Biden is the most liberal who ever liberalled.

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              So you’re saying the police were dispatched because Israel is corporo-fascist, and Biden supports Israel, therefore Biden supports fascism, and that empowers the local police.

              Reaching like that, you should stretch before you pull something.