While rebutting another post here on Lemmy, I ran into this. This says exactly what I want to say.
I am not a friend of Biden’s Administration. I think they drug their feet over a variety of things ranging from holding Trump and his goons accountable for January 6th through rulemaking on issues like OTC Birth Control and abortion rights, and yes, I think he’s too quick to please big business. But then I remember what the alternative is, and … well, disappointed in Biden or not, I’m voting for him. Because my wife is a Black bisexual goth woman, four strikes under Team Pepe’s tent. And I have my own strikes for marrying her as a White dude, and respecting her right to not have kids since she doesn’t want them is another strike against me. And I care about my Non-Christian, Gay, Transgender, and Minority friends, and will never willingly subject them to Team Pepe.
You’re right to key in on the distinction between words and action. Biden is actively supporting a genocide, and what Ukraine has suffered pales in comparison to what Gaza is enduring.
Only because the US has helped Ukraine defend itself. Russia has shown they’re the same as Israel when it comes to this.
The solution is that we should be helping both Gaza and Ukraine. Not that we should help neither. And given the choice between helping one of them or helping neither of them, I choose to help one of them. Whatever saves the most lives, and I believe there’s a very clear choice in November there.
Over a million people are on the brink of starvation in Gaza.