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Welcome to the Mental Olympics (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know if I would count “making an announcement on social media” as stopping the genocide, but I understand that for Trump voters the bar on anything must be very low.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Nothing Trump says means anything, let's check back in a month.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Lol sure he will. By letting them finish it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-15/ty-article/.premium/israeli-official-hamas-introduced-last-minute-demands-on-gazas-philadelphi-corridor/00000194-6a75-d876-affe-7e7f3eda0000

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love that you're out here praising Trump for something that happened before he even enters office. Fucking talk about "mental olympics" lmao

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You do realize Trump sent an envoy to Israel which forced the genocide to stop right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

And he didn't do this a year ago why? Oh right, exchanging lives for the reelection campaign.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Joe Biden kept sending bombs to Israel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i didn't realize trump had been inaugurated today.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

In that article I don't see that Dump (or Biden) did much more than posturing around this. Also anything that refers to this conflict as a 15 month war is suspect.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump’s plan for ending the genocide is to let Netanyahu complete it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Can’t commit further genocide if there’s nobody left to genocide! 🤡

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Check back in in a month

Edit: it’s been 10 days now, but things ain’t goin so hot are they?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Seems more likely he'll just let things devolve further...

Trump would not elaborate on what he meant by his threat — first announced on social media in early December — that "all hell will break out" if a deal is not made.

"It will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone," Trump said. -Source

Not sure he understands the implications of his own statement...

[+] [email protected] -12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Stopping a genocide is the opposite of devolving. Trumps statement is a direct threat to Israel. There is no leverage or "worse" for Hamas. Democrats trying to spin Trump stopping the genocide into something bad is comical.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trumps statement is a direct threat to Israel.

You realize he's literally threatening Hamas here, no?

"It will not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone," Trump said.

He seems more likely to stop the genocide by allowing Isreal to just kill everyone so there's no one left to genocide....

They are more likely to give Israel a lot of leeway, including releasing Biden’s hold on the transfer of certain weapons to finish the job as soon as possible. Source

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well, let's see what happens.

I also highly doubt he's gonna do anything. Add on top of that, that very few outside countries seem to care about Trump, much less respect him enough to actually listen to anything he has to say.

[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

What did that 'respect' get little old Joey Brandon? All Trump had to do was threaten to cut off the weapons.

Trump already did something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I’m sure all the money AIPAC gave to Trump has no impact. We know Trump to be such a non-transactional person. You drank a big ass glass of the MAGA koolaid dude. Netanyahu and Trump are very friendly, I’m sure he wants to make it look like Trump brought a cease fire for optics. Israel is losing support all over the world, even in Israel, they were pushing towards the optics of a cease fire for a while. You wait and see what really happens. I’m sure the author of the Muslim ban who constantly decries negatively towards Islam is going to stand up for the poor Islamic state over the rich lucrative Israeli state. 🤦🏻

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump gets his funding from Miriam Adelson. the $100 million she gave him is clearly not even close to what the Democrats received. Becacuse Trump is stopping the genocide instantly. Kool aid is supposed to be red but these days it is blue.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Dude Trump isn’t even in office yet lol.

Your logic as viewed by everyone else:

“If it’s good, Trump did it. If it’s bad, it’s Biden’s fault.”

PLEASE tell me you’re thinking it through more than this, then let’s have a dialogue about that thought process because I am incredibly curious how you got there.

Kool aid comes in multiple colors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trump's Mideast Envoy Forced Netanyahu to Accept a Gaza Plan He Repeatedly Rejected

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Netanyahu says ‘last-minute crisis’ with Hamas holding up approval of Gaza truce and hostage deal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

They already have weapons, both sides, and America doesn't sit on the worlds supply of weapons. So that will get him nothing.

His envoy pressing for a ceasefire seems to do very little, as everybody else has been doing the same for a while now.

What else have you got?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Always weird to see MAGAts on Lemmy…

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn’t the text read something like, “republicans looking at the receipts for the wall Mexico was supposed to pay for”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

100% on your side. But careful not to set yourself up for the same legit criticism that we throw at R's. Whataboutism.

edit: but also that would be a pretty great meme, tbf

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago

Genocide is a bit worse than the wall of whataboutism. But if you want to go there Democrats are building it too so it would be a spidey meme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Right after he releases his tax returns, oh wait by his own words he stands by nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Where’s the “sort by most downvotes”? This is absolutely. Is Trump/Musk paying infiltrators? Seriously, dude can’t read the room. What’s going on here?