• bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net
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    6 days ago

    Exactly. I have a feeling if John McCain had somehow pulled off a 2008 win, MSNBC’s sudden reversal on the legality of murdering civilians (including US citizens) with drones wouldn’t have changed from their pre-2008 stance.

  • Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    This literally happened in reverse in Australia. Our current prime minister had previously attended rallies in support of Palestine and is on the record as having said “The Palestinians must be given their homeland” now that he’s in government he’s throwing around anti-Semitism claims at protestors and refuses to take action, even kicking a member of his party out for saying we need to recognise the state of Palestine