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Biden funded UNRWA (after Trump 1 defunded it), put sanctions on Israeli settlers, directly provided humanitarian aid, "paused" delivery of some weapons, and also provided billions of dollars in military aid and diplomatic cover (as of course did every other US president in history) which undermined any claim any of those things might have had to keeping him out of hell. On his watch, this new phase of the genocide started, and two years went by with a steady pace of dead Palestinians, mostly families and children.
Trump cancelled funding for UNRWA, unpaused all weapons shipments, and started drawing up plans with Netanyahu for the complete destruction of Gaza. It's been about six months, and the pace of the killing has greatly accelerated, mostly due to the complete starvation of the entire population. The endgame started pretty much as soon as he got into office. Domestically, he started attempting to deport people who organized protests in favor of Gaza, and de facto banned Palestinians from speaking at the UN or getting visas. Instead of weakly pumping the brakes, he hit the gas hard. The result has been a massive increase in suffering.
I'm not trying to defend Biden's support for genocide. I'm pointing out huge substantive ways in which Trump was worse, if you want that.
What do you want to pivot to now? I told you what I thought would happen in the conversation, let's see.
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/us-unrwa-funding-already-halted-2024-not-by-trump-2025-order-2025-01-28/
Entirely performative sanctions on a handful of individual settlers does not materially help Palestinians at all.
What does this even mean, what are you referring to?
While continuing to provide as many weapons as Israel needed. Not a single Palestinian life was saved by this entirely performative gesture.
https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/us-unrwa-funding-already-halted-2024-not-by-trump-2025-order-2025-01-28/
Israel already was receiving all the weapons it needed under Biden.
Bullshit; Netanyahu already had those plans drawn up under Biden.
Bullshit. Show your evidence or admit you're actively lying.
No, you just stopped ignoring how bad it was under Biden.
What nonsense. Biden already had the gas pedal on the floor when Trump got in.
Bullshit. You were just a denialist when Biden was in.
Yes. You objectively are.
You literally have not pointed out a single way in which Trump is "hugely substantively worse". You've pointed to one thing that was straight up false, two that are completely insubstantial, and then just endlessly asserted that things are so much worse in Gaza based purely on vibes.
Fuck off, genocide apologist
Man, when I predicted that libs will suddenly see Palestine as an issue now that Trump is in office, I didn’t fully realize that they’d use the fact that they purposefully buried their heads in the sand as proof things were better back then.
I attended some protests, and contacted my congresspeople about stopping aid for Israel back under Biden. What did you do?
The pretense that me saying "I didn't want Trump to make things ten times worse" equates to me claiming "things were okay before, and Biden wasn't complicit" doesn't become true, no matter how loud you pretend it.
No, but the fact that you're pretending Biden wasn't as bad as Trump still makes you a genocide apologist.