32 upvotes for “She joined the Dems in supporting Israel though,” and then search the comments below for “Her genocide support has ousted her for the fraud she is.” if you want another example. There are others in other threads but that’s a good representative sample.
It’s always been a narrative (her physical offices got vandalised accusing her of supporting genocide at one point), but just recently a little handful of Lemmy accounts all started talking about it again all at about the same time.
That’s not really what happened. She voted no on an amendment which would have left intact that absolute river of weapons for Israel, but also would have cut off a grant which included among some other things some “defensive” weapons for civilian areas. And then she said some dumb stuff on Twitter about why she did that. The whole endeavor was always a waste of time, there was 0 material impact to anything, and I cannot see any non-malicious reason why it would among anyone who cares about Palestinians suddenly become a narrative which sticks to her so relentlessly, when she’s vigorous enough in promoting Palestinian causes that the sum total impact of not supporting her will be a measurable negative impact to Palestinians who do not need any more of those right now.
I mean everyone can think what they want, but I think the playbook of “This popular leftist politician betrayed all the leftist causes if you mischaracterize what actually happened! Everyone on the left stop supporting them please, they’re a bad leftist and so are you if you don’t stop supporting them!” is a pretty well established right-wing playbook at this point. I am generally pretty negative about anything that sounds like it, wherever it stems from.
I haven’t really seen that sentiment on lemmy myself
https://lemmy.world/post/36172587/19489288
32 upvotes for “She joined the Dems in supporting Israel though,” and then search the comments below for “Her genocide support has ousted her for the fraud she is.” if you want another example. There are others in other threads but that’s a good representative sample.
It’s always been a narrative (her physical offices got vandalised accusing her of supporting genocide at one point), but just recently a little handful of Lemmy accounts all started talking about it again all at about the same time.
She pissed a lot of people off when she voted for sending weapons to Isreal, I don’t think she supports the genocide tho.
Yeah there are bunch of bots fucking with lemmy already.
That’s not really what happened. She voted no on an amendment which would have left intact that absolute river of weapons for Israel, but also would have cut off a grant which included among some other things some “defensive” weapons for civilian areas. And then she said some dumb stuff on Twitter about why she did that. The whole endeavor was always a waste of time, there was 0 material impact to anything, and I cannot see any non-malicious reason why it would among anyone who cares about Palestinians suddenly become a narrative which sticks to her so relentlessly, when she’s vigorous enough in promoting Palestinian causes that the sum total impact of not supporting her will be a measurable negative impact to Palestinians who do not need any more of those right now.
I mean everyone can think what they want, but I think the playbook of “This popular leftist politician betrayed all the leftist causes if you mischaracterize what actually happened! Everyone on the left stop supporting them please, they’re a bad leftist and so are you if you don’t stop supporting them!” is a pretty well established right-wing playbook at this point. I am generally pretty negative about anything that sounds like it, wherever it stems from.