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US House passes resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide
- Thread starter GrapeApes
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Omar also voted No on imposing sanctions against Turkey.
So uh, primary challengers? Step right up!
So uh, primary challengers? Step right up!
"I can't acknowledge this genocide because there are also other genocides that need to be recognized."
Recognize this one and push like hell for the rest. It's not difficult. Come on.
We expect the GOP to be worthless skin bags, but watching Omar throw in with those fascists is both disappointing and increasingly on-brand for her.
I would encourage someone in her office to sit her down and explain this shit, but she's either surrounded by equally dumb AF sycophants or is too egotistical to take good advice.
What a waste of a good opportunity for her constituents.
I would encourage someone in her office to sit her down and explain this shit, but she's either surrounded by equally dumb AF sycophants or is too egotistical to take good advice.
What a waste of a good opportunity for her constituents.
"A resolution isn't worth supporting unless it covers everything" is a really dumb mindset to have. If she applied it to everything she had to vote on, she wouldn't get anything done.
Edit: Not that I actually believe her reasoning.
Edit: Not that I actually believe her reasoning.
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guys we need italy to recognise the celtic genocide of 2000 years ago.
Why hasn't both the European transatlantic slave trade, and mass genocide of 100+ million Indingneous people of the Americas commited by the Europeans been recognized as genocides?
Genuinely curious.
Genuinely curious.
So basically she wanted to vote no but pulled an all lives matter.
She can fuck off with that bullshit. Somebody needs to primary her ass now
Probably to avoid setting the foundation for reparations.
It's a straight bad faith argument you use as an excuse to oppose things to hid your even worse reason.
I fucking hate this genocide diplomacy.
This is not about the US all of a sudden caring about the Armenian genocide, this is about making anyone who doesn't support sanctions to look like a holocaust denier.
And it's working.
This is just like with Iraq, anyone who was against the sanctions was shouted "rape palaces, torture chambers, genocide", and I think that was a disastrous policy.
This is why sanctions always get wall to wall bipartisan support.
I think that bill is really not that well thought out, and I am still unclear about what the US policy is even in Northern Syria.
This is not about the US all of a sudden caring about the Armenian genocide, this is about making anyone who doesn't support sanctions to look like a holocaust denier.
And it's working.
This is just like with Iraq, anyone who was against the sanctions was shouted "rape palaces, torture chambers, genocide", and I think that was a disastrous policy.
This is why sanctions always get wall to wall bipartisan support.
I think that bill is really not that well thought out, and I am still unclear about what the US policy is even in Northern Syria.
Omar needs to be primaried. Any benefit of the doubt given regarding previous iffy shit is now gone.
"Don't piss off the people housing your nukes" is probably a big part of it as well. . https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/18/can-us-protect-its-nuclear-weapons-turkey/
What does Omar saying "present" mean?
Her statement looks like she is condemning so what does present mean?
Her statement looks like she is condemning so what does present mean?
I don't really agree with a lot of this, but it's certainly true that this resolution is supported partly as a counterbalance to every president's refusal to recognize the genocide and the vote is not quite as straightforward as "do you think the Armenian genocide was real, yes or no".
Omar's explanation was very dumb but I'm not really jumping at the idea of calling a woman who has had multiple recent threats on her life "trash" for it.
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Omar going full #AllLivesMatter here.
When you're right of the majority of the GOP, you might want to question your stance.
It's not crazy. She voted no on the sanctions vote. It wasn't linked to this one. This was the easiest of easy layup votes and she managed to somehow hit herself in the face with the basketball.
That seems a bit extreme, unless you have someone clearly better lined up.
Well that's one way to lose your seat.
It's effectively abstaining from voting yes or no.
It's effectively abstaining from voting yes or no.
