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As much as I love AOC, and as much as I HATE MTG, she did put forward a bill to reduce how much we are sending to Israel and 4 progressives voted with her on it but not AOC.
It's confusing. I'd like to hear her reasoning.
https://x.com/AOC/status/1946588421197046084
And there we go. A well reasoned and rational explanation. :)
I knew I liked her.
Except it's not well reasoned at all. You give a genocidal fascist Nation $500 million dollars to spend on defense then they have an extra $500 million dollars to spend on something else. Wonder what they're going to spend it on? Giving Israel a missile Shield allows them to act with impunity in the region. They can attack whoever they want knowing that they can't be attacked back. Any funding or aid to a genocidal nation is funding genocide. That's just a fact.