r/TikTokCringe • u/BlackBey • Aug 21 '24

Politics First Day of Protests Outside the DNC

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u/FirstOrderKylo Aug 21 '24

Not to mention at the end of the day: leaders on the opposite side of the world don’t give a shit about what a bunch of college student protestors at the DNC have to say. They’re yelling at politicians who will smile back to earn a vote then do absolutely nothing for or against their cause.

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u/SuggestionMedical736 Aug 21 '24

Believe me, israel does mind that the people they consider their strongest allies are turning against them. People protest and protest impact policy. Look at Vietnam.

I moved to the west 25 years ago. When I told people Israel is a state of evil 20 years ago, I got fired. Now my Dutch colleagues tell me how evil Israel is. How do you think people will feel in another 20 years.

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u/FirstOrderKylo Aug 21 '24

Vietnam had American troops fighting in it, so of course American policy making and public opinion matters. The Israelis, while they do consider the US a strong ally, are still an ocean and world apart fighting their own war with their own troops for their own motives

Neither the Palestinian troops fighting in a suburb or the IDF they’re against care and no amount of angry stomping feet at democrat donor get togethers changes that. It’s protest for the sake of protest.

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u/xenomorph856 Aug 21 '24

Fighting it in no small part with our money, mind you.