Senator’s bid to make US military support conditional on whether Israel is violating human rights in Gaza fails by 72 votes to 11

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[–] 195 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Unsurprising. Thank you, Bernie, for trying.

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  • [–] 114 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Every time America is about to/in the process of making a mistake there's a video of Bernie Sanders warning everyone not to do it.

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  • [–] 99 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Sanders is proof the US is working on a rigged system

    he has had the people's interest at heart since he first started his political career in the 60s and not just the US citizens

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    He will inspire a group of young people that will actually make the change when boomers die. So there's that.

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  • [–] 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Anyone got a list of who supported it?

    Edit: so far I found that it was Sanders (duh), Rand Paul, and 9 democrats. Not sure who

    Edit 2: per https://www.businessinsider.com/which-senators-voted-bernie-sanders-resolution-israel-human-rights-violations-2024-1?amp

    Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky

    Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico

    Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon

    Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont

    Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland

    Democratic Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts

    Democratic Sen. Laphonza Butler of California

    Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Lujan of New Mexico

    Democratic Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii

    Democratic Sen. Peter Welch of Vermont

    Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Anyone got a list of who abstained? I want to do the math so I know how large the Senate Genocide Caucus is.

    EDIT: I was trying to do math and kept overlooking how the article said that it was 72-11, which would mean 17 abstaining or absent. The Senate Genocide Caucus is 72 members wide.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    If my arithmetic is correct, the Senate Genocide Caucus consists of 2 Independents, 32 Republicans, and 37 Democrats.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Rand (and Ron) Paul always confuses me.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What's there to be confused about?

    Ron is a soft-spoken man who stood firm in his convictions, and was quietly friendly with white nationals and other horrible people. He's retired now.

    Rand is a bit of a blow hard with no convictions, and is loudly friendly with white nationals and other horrible people. He's a sitting senator.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Voting List for Anyone Interested

    Fuck everyone that continues to support this genocide.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago*

    39 Democrat senators (40 if you count Sinema) and 32 Republican senators.

    I'd also like to remind people that 44 Democrats and 36 Republican senators voted to block the rail strike.

    Procorporate trash. All of them. Fuck Joe Biden.

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Bernie Sanders is obviously a raging anti-Semite.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The measure was a first-of-its-kind tapping into a decades-old law that would require the US state department to, within 30 days, produce a report on whether the Israeli war effort in Gaza is violating human rights and international accords. If the administration failed to do so, US military aid to Israel, long assured without question, could be quickly halted.

    Those senators must be pretty confident that a report would find human rights violations. Why would they oppose it otherwise?

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    [–] 41 points 2 years ago

    if only democrats actually stood for what they say they stand for

    we could of had eight years of bernie instead of eight years of further decline with trump and biden

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    if you think israel didn't do anything wrong, why oppose an investigation?

    (also milosevic did the same thing in the 90s and was prosecuted for it by the icc - the us supported that then)

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    Sigh, the US government never fails to disappoint.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    During the Sheikh Jarrah incident I contacted everyone who politically represents me and told them to re-evaluate how freely they fund Isreal, they all gave me lots of lip service telling me they will consider it when opportunities arise and every last one of them voted against this. I don't think I've ever in my life been accurately represented politically on a federal level, and the only reason that's not true locally is because I've testified to local government committees on things that actually made it to the state house floor.

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Doesn’t look like there are many scruples left in DC.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    This is the stupidest timeline.

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    Warren also voted with Sanders.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    I'm supposed to believe the Dems that voted against this also care about saving democracy? They don't even care about basic human rights. We're going full speed into the worst timeline.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What did anyone expect? Both sides take military industrial complex money

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Well, at least it was the right method. They didn't hide behind Biden.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It sometimes feels like Bernie Sanders is the only American leader with an actual heart.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I knew he was "my guy" when I finally realized who he was in 2016. There was a time I watched a lot of documentaries, and every time this scraggly haired old dude was shown in some random clip of Congress doing their thing in relation to the documentary, he was always on the right side of the argument. So I see Bernie Sanders running and I said "oh shit, it's that guy!"

    No wonder the media demonizes him...

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    Proud of my Senator, Martin Heinrich. He did the right thing today.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Isnt that a proof that Israel dont respect human rights?

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