A career State Department official resigned from her post on Tuesday, saying she could no longer work for the Biden administration after it released a report concluding that Israel was not preventing the flow of aid to Gaza.
Stacy Gilbert, who served as a senior civilian-military advisor to the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM), sent an email to staff saying she was resigning because she felt the State Department had made the wrong assessment, The Washington Post reported, citing officials who read the note.
The report was filed in response to President Joe Biden issuing a national security memorandum (NSM-20) in early February on whether the administration finds credible Israel’s assurances that its use of US weapons do not violate either American or international law.
The report said there were reasonable grounds to believe Israel on several occasions had used American-supplied weapons “inconsistent” with international humanitarian law, but said it could not make a definitive assessment - enough to prevent the suspension of arms transfers.
What do you want us to do differently?
The election is in less than 5 months. Do you want me to vote Biden, vote Trump, vote third party, or don’t vote? What course of action do you suggest? Genuinely asking. I see these comments over and over and yet no one ever has a reasonable alternative course of action so they invariably admit the only reasonable choice is to vote for Biden making this all tragically academic.
Those are my choices. What should I do?
Mass protests. Civil disobedience. The kinda of things that ended slavery and helped raise women’s rights. The things we used to do instead of sitting down and just taking it. Look at the French: they stage months/years long protests. Now check their labor laws and compare it to the US. Where would you rather work?
It’s not going to end until people accept that this change won’t be easy and won’t happen taking the easy way. It’s going to be a shit ton of uphill battles. But that’s the only way to take power back from the oppressors: you demand it.
You think Biden could keep his course of actions up if a large percentage of citizens were out on the streets protesting? I’m asking you to hold your elected representatives accountable. And if they arent doing as they should, you should damn well make it known. Not go “well, he’s not gonna do what I want, but he’s not a Nazi”. DONT ROLL OVER AND TAKE IT.
Do you realize how much you can slow the government down just by calling your representatives? Even if you don’t talk to them, every secretary and assistant taking calls instead of doing other things slows them down. Keep calling. Don’t stop. Send in letters. Show up to meetings whenever possible. Be visible and make your voice heard.
You have no clue what I’m doing. Don’t lecture me with the usual vague “just protest” dross. Come November, because this election is happening, what do you want me to do? Stay home? Vote for someone?
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You seem to love throwing out insults to people who seem to genuinely want a better world. Pretty weird why to try encourage a movement of the people against the government. Learn to exist in a community. Even if you don’t agree with everything people say. Try to find the common ground, I can see it.
He knows we have to vote for Biden but he doesn’t want to say it so he’s attacking me personally.
I feel like the question has been pretty straight forward and you keep doing your damndest to avoid answering it. Come November do you want me to vote for Biden, vote for Trump, vote third party, or not vote? None of what you described answered that and nothing you listed forces me not to participate in November. So what is it?
It was, they answered it, you’re just pushing more because you don’t realize you failed your gotcha.
You asked:
And they answered with what they wanted you to do. What you do specifically about voting is irrelevant as that was not the topic at hand.
Oh give me a break I outlined the options in the first comment clearly illustrating it. We are talking about voting or not voting for Biden. If you don’t see that than either you are overly prescriptive with language and leave zero room for inference or you are lying through your teeth in service of winning an Internet argument on behalf of someone else who has had multiple comments removed by the moderators for good reason.
And let’s even concede you don’t find the first comment adequate, the follow up comments clearly ask it over and over. Frankly you’re just being dishonest or you didn’t read the comments.
No, you tried to make it about that after someone else commented without specification on that front.
Oh no, why didn’t people respect the moved goalposts?
Fucking Idiot you are, bud
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I don’t expect to see that as an option when it comes to voting.
Because, if you go back, you’ll see that was the question. It was about voting. Voting is that thing you do where you choose between (currently) two options.
That’s not what the question was.
The question was
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