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Booker is a bloodthirsty murderer. I feel sick when I see liberals praising his pointless grandstanding. He’s been a sneering Zionist scumbag his whole career.

Liberals are trying to play some kind of critical support angle with their favorite Democrats, but what they’re trying (and failing) to criticize is literal genocide. There is no “you gotta hand it to them.” They’re demons in the flesh. They’re irredeemable. No amount of liberal hand-wringing and “how dare you” will revive Palestinian women and children.

Liberals. Please demand something better than the bare minimum. The bare minimum here is not committing genocide.

yeah like why is it so unbelievable that I call a Democratic politician a Zionist? Zionism is the official party line. What the fuck

“Hey these Democrats sure do give a lot of money to Israel”

“UHHH SOURCE?”

I don’t owe you shit, but here you go: https://www.booker.senate.gov/news/press/booker-statement-on-israel-hamas-ceasefire-deal

From Cory Booker’s own website in regards to the recent ceasefire:

"The work must continue to achieve a two-state solution that affirms and protects Israel’s right to exist as a democratic Jewish state and ensures the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and a state of their own.”

Israel’s right to exist as a democratic Jewish state

He’s a Zionist. He says right there on his own website that Israel has a right to exist as specifically an ethnonationalist state. That’s what a Zionist is. It’s someone who supports the creation/maintenance of a ethnically/religiously Jewish nation-state in the region of Palestine with Palestinian Arabs either disenfranchised, made a minority, or completely removed. A Zionist supports Israel as a sovereign Jewish homeland with a Jewish identity along with a nation-state apparatus to enforce this status as homeland.

For further information, please consult CodePink’s anti-zionist website boughtbyzionism.org. Here is the page for Cory Booker:

https://www.boughtbyzionism.org/cory_booker

As you see, he’s taken $893,998 from AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is a Zionist lobbying group.

Do you want any further citations? Here is an opensecrets.org search for Zionist lobbying money to various politicians. If you are skeptical of opensecrets, it’s used as a unbiased source of information for AP, the Washington Post, Politico, NBC News, NPR, and the New York Times. Opensecrets cites Federal Election Comission data, which is public information.

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

You think I made up that Booker is a Zionist? I’ll cite whatever but I don’t understand what I’m being asked to cite.

To what? Booker’s publicly available voting record?

He hasn’t stopped being one of Israel’s staunchest supporters. Cory Booker voted to approve Trump’s nomination for CIA head, John Ratcliffe, a former US house representative. Ratcliffe has also been one of Israel’s staunchest allies, such as supporting Israeli strikes on Iranian territory. Booker also voted to confirm Marco Rubio, Trump’s appointee to Secretary of State. Why can’t you see this? Booker is a snake and can’t be trusted if this is how he conducts himself.

Booker is a clown, that’s what this has to do with what he’s doing right now. He isn’t sincere and any supposed problems he has with “demagoguery” pales in comparison to Booker’s own ghoulish support of continued genocide. You’re asking us to respond positively to a proponent of genocide yelling at another proponent of genocide. Ok, Booker is telling people to resist Trump. By doing what exactly? Voting? Throwing molotovs?

Oh I know something you can do to protest Trump and it’s even peaceful. You can support the BDS movement, where you boycott Israeli goods. That would make sense given the Trump administration’s unwavering support of Israel.

Oh except Booker has repeatedly attempted to criminalize BDS, he’s in full support of defining anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and I can’t even find any evidence Booker has mentioned Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student who was thrown into federal detention for the supposed crime of being pro-Palestine.

Cory Booker is a murderer and war criminal. The bodies of thousands of Palestinian children lay at his feet. He’s not good in any respect. Stop doing apologia for genocide. In a just world he’d be at the Hague right now on trial with the rest of his colleagues. Fuck this guy. Death to Israel. Death to America.

I don’t want to hear “this isn’t ok” from Cory Booker, one of the most outspoken Zionists in the entire US government. He has no moral framework to stand upon. He’s a proponent of genocide and his contention with Trump is largely theatrical. If he truly had a backbone or even a soul there are a million better choices he could have made before reaching this point.

This guy has taken $893,998 from AIPAC. He’s paid for just like the rest. Fuck this guy.

This guy is a fucking Zionist clown and a stooge for venture capital. I’m old enough to remember when Obama would take shots at Romney in the 2012 election for Romney’s founder status at Bain Capital. Booker, perhaps simply for love of the game, defended Bain Capital for seemingly no reason other than to get pats on the shoulders from Republicans

And what is this doofus doing now? Wagging his finger at Trump for theatrical reasons. This keeps getting called a filibuster but there’s not specific legislation Booker is trying to kill. There’s no bill he’s trying to stop.

All this fire and gusto to stand around while he eagerly votes for bills to send yet another billion dollars to the Zionist Entity. Fuck this guy. I hope he enjoys hell.

What are acceptable ways to pressure Trump out of committing genocide and steer the Democrats into opposing Israel? Is that a better question? Because that’s where we are right now.

I did reply in good faith. I’m serious that the Democrats ran a terrible campaign and their loss should be placed squarely at their feet. Biden and Harris failed you. But you wanna turn this around on me and call me a conservative or something? I’ve been a communist for 20 years. I’m queer, nonbinary, and probably on various FBI lists of people who show up at too many leftist orgs. Why would you ever suggest I’d be happy about Trump

You know who’s probably very happy that Trump won? Kamala Harris.

If the Democrats didn’t want this outcome then they should have run a better campaign. That’s the point of this. Harris was asked at one point how her policy towards Palestine would differ from Biden’s and her response was she couldn’t think of anything.

Not to mention Harris embraced the 2016 Trump border wall proposal and openly campaigned with the endorsement of Liz Cheney. Her most disgusting moment to me was when asked if trans people should have access to gender affirming care, in the context of individual states banning trans healthcare, her response was “I believe we should follow the law.”

Yeah great campaign. Truly a person who wanted to win

the most expensive item I own is a bicycle and I’ve never had savings. i’m already $30k+ in debt so whatever

I’m a communist. I don’t win if there’s a Democrat or a Republican in office. Someone who has cast two ballots for Trump has a dead rat for a brain and should be promptly sent to reeducation, not given some military bozo to vote for.

The civilian equivalent of his position was CEO of a fortune 500 company

He was the civilian equivalent of a huge piece of shit? Ok.

I know this is just a forum and the libs are always confused by nuance, but exploitation does occur in socialist countries, just in a vastly different character and at a much smaller scale. Cuba for instance does have private land owners who employee workers, and China of course has various large corporations.

However these are symptoms of the positions the nations find themselves within. Socialist nations tend to find themselves in the middle of capitalist encirclement. Until the last capitalist is extinguished, class based exploitation will continue to exist.

I think perhaps you should read more of what Dr. King actually advocated for and said. He didn’t endorse violence, but he didn’t condemn it either. He typically didn’t come from it from this moralizing angle either, most of his emphasis was his belief that violence was first and foremost a poor tactic, but at the same time he understood why violence happens. You’ve probably heard his 1967 statement “a riot is the language of the unheard.”

When is violence permissable or moral then? Absolutely never? You have to imagine the types of situations people in the world face. I know a person from Gaza who was nearly finished with his university studies, now he lives in a tent with his mother and his little sister is dead. When I’m able to talk with him, he expresses almost nothing but violence and hatred against the Israeli state and the IDF.

Are you saying my friend Ali is in a bubble he should get out of? Or are you simply talking about your own experiences? Because even if so, you should at least feel some inclination of rage towards the people who did this to my friend.

If you just want to limit it to Haiti, Cuba, and the USSR, then yes each of those revolutions led to a vastly more humane society than the previous one. It also depends on who you’re asking. Tsar Nicholas II certainly didn’t see the Soviet Union as an improvement. Cuban plantation owners with dozens of slaves didn’t see socialism as an improvement. There are winners and losers in history, the losing side usually isn’t going to be pleased.

And who loses in a revolution? In a successful socialist revolution it’s the capitalist class, colonizers, slavers, the previous bureaucracy, regional landlords. The USSR went from a backwater literal peasant kingdom to a space faring modern country within a single generation, despite a famine and despite the brutal loss of life in WW2. It’s very easy to say the country that sends women to school to become nuclear engineers is not as brutally oppressive as the country with a monarch that forcefully sends women to become nuns. How do you determine oppression? Go look at things like literacy, child mortality, education, home ownership, access to clean water, and what kind of occupations women have. By those metrics, socialist revolutions typically and vastly reduce oppression.

I don’t know why you think we’re proposing a society without violence. We’re proposing a society where the working class wields the violence against the capitalist class until the capitalist class ceases to exist. We don’t like when violence happens to us and people in the same position as us. And if gaining more control over our own lives involves violence against the capitalist class, then that’s what it takes.

I genuinely couldn’t give a shit about a capitalist’s supposed civil rights, and I take John Brown’s advice for how to treat racists.