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President Biden holds country supplying weapons responsible for casualties inflicted by those weapons (www.whitehouse.gov)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

gave

Yes...

It's sooo much different that they used some of the over billion of taxpayer dollars that we give them annually to "buy" them....

And reality isn't just whatever the current administration says it is...

The Act of Congress requires international governments receiving weapons from the United States to use the armaments for legitimate self-defense. Consideration is given as to whether the exports "would contribute to an arms race, aid in the development of weapons of mass destruction, support international terrorism, increase the possibility of outbreak or escalation of conflict, or prejudice the development of bilateral or multilateral arms control or nonproliferation agreements or other arrangements."[2]

For fucks sake, by your logic all of Trump's ridiculous claims he made as president were true because he said it was.

It's really getting old seeing Biden defenders act like trump supporters

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Selling and giving are absolutely different, regardless of where the money comes from. I see what you mean, in that it is effectively giving, but that's just now how the law works. It should, I think Biden shouldn't even be able to override Congress in this regard, but that's just how it is. Congress can change that at any time.

The situation in Gaza is gray for many people, it's not easy to claim it's objectively defense or offense without proving it in court. I'm not trying to debate the morality of this context, I'm saying that Biden did not circumvent Congress.

It's really getting old seeing Biden defenders act like trump supporters

Bruh come on, you know that's a bad faith ad hominem. Someone isn't acting like a trump supporter because they call out a blatantly false argument lmfao. If anything, it's the other way around, attacking a person by baselessly comparing them to the other political side.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

For it to be an ad hominem it would have to be something irrelevant...

Excusing Biden for pulling a standard trump method, is a relevant comparison to what trump supports excuse from trump.

Words have meaning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

If I pointed it out that it's also disappointing trump and Biden supporters both don't seem to understand that definitions matter, it wouldnt be an an ad hominim either. Because it's now relevant to the topic at hand.

If you're upset at the comparison, maybe Biden supporters should stop acting like trump supporters?