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John Rogers

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Joining the exodus - hopefully leaving the antiscience idiots to pat each other on their backs in peace

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John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · Jun 24

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Horrifying with hints of extraordinary humanity. Thank you @newnhamcollege.bsky.social for giving her the memorial her mother denied her.

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John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

He’d lost the election he was a lame duck what could he do at that stage?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

Did you not read the article at the top of this? What exactly do you think Netanyahu was blowing smoke in his face over?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

I’m only blaming them for a profound lack of pragmatism in achieving their goals. Sure let’s work on the other stuff too!

Is trump fixing that? I haven’t checked in recently!

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John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

Seriously? You think AOC, Sanders, Tlaib, Lee, Balint, would be precisely as powerless in a word where the Dems had held congress or Harris had won?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

It’s like you pretend the political situation simply didn’t exist. The democrats get a lot of money from people who vigorously support the concept of a well armed Isreal.

You need money to win elections.

These aren’t pleasant realities but they are a feature of American politics.

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John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

I think the news article is hard to interpret in any other way. If Biden had not become a lame duck yes it seems it was on the table

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

Yes for quite understandable but nonetheless unpleasant political reasons.

But regardless would those politicians have more sway if she had won or lost?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry getting a peace deal isn’t opposing the genocide now?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

We’re replying to a thread where the news of how close Biden was to getting a deal over the line at the end of last year. So remind me how they weren’t doing it?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry to be clear the only party with a capacity to wield any power

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 18h

But she represented the only political party that did have politicians expressing that.

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

I’m only expecting that people who oppose a genocide, like I do, act in a way most likely to stop it.

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

I knew that too? What I’m asking is what did cheering the democrats defeat help that cause or hinder it?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

And which was that?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

Something like 20k bodies are there precisely because trump won.

It’s time to own the mistake.

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John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

(Or lack of them)

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

And did you achieve with your actions?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

It didn’t go through because the thing you wanted (a democrat bloody nose) happened

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

It didn’t go through because trump had won you clutz

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

Which bits a lie?

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John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

No that’s simply not true. Perhaps now maybe you could get popular support for stopping arms sales. But then? You have any evidence for that?

Many see stopping arms as essentially the end of Isreal. And that isn’t a popular position in the US.

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John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 19h

And did the option you went with kill fewer people 🤷‍♂️ at least 20k dead this year the deal Biden had could have ended this a year ago

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 20h

Are you insane? What the hell makes you think I want this orange Cheeto’s approval!

You are the one cheering the failure of the democrats to stop him here!

If you are cheering their failure do you not see thats the same as cheering his success?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 20h

What the actual fuck are you on about? The fascism is here the people you horrifically refer to as “subhuman” are dead. And you, once again, seem PLEASED the democrats lost - can you explain that?

John Rogers @ronnytodgers.bsky.social · 20h

You seem PLEASED that the democrats lost. You utter numbskull. Do you like whats happened to the US over the last year? Warm and fuzzy feeling of ideological satisfaction?