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https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1934945918047998203/photo/1 https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1934945918047998203/photo/1 aipac is boasting about funding majorit

by slt2021 1y ago

https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1934945918047998203/photo/1 https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1934945918047998203/photo/1 aipac is boasting about funding majority of congress and is openly forcing candidates to pledge loyalty. If they dont pledge, they unleash the usual tools: funding the competing candidate, non-stop smearing campaigns via israeli-loyal media outlets and ethnically jewish journalists (==all mainstream media), bogus accusations of "antisemitism" and etc

JumpCrisscross 1y ago
> aipac is boasting about funding majority of congress and is openly forcing candidates to pledge loyalty. If they dont pledge, they unleash the usual tools Sure. The NRA does the same. There are various pro-Palestinian groups who also did the same last cycle; they may have helped swing Michigan for Trump. Spending money doesn’t change minds, it helps activate latent sentiment. Particularly on low-priority issues, which foreign policy usually is for most electeds.
- slt2021 1y ago
  spending money absolutely does change minds of a politician, this is the main purpose of a lobby and this is how proposals become laws. for example the most recent bogus "IHRA definition of antisemitism" was heavily lobbied and coordinated. This is the prime example of what money can do in politics
  - JumpCrisscross 1y ago
    Have you paid for a lobbyist or effected legislation? You can raise and lower magnitudes. But you can’t change the sign of a position. Not unless it’s an issue the elected has literally never heard of before. (Or cannot remember. Lots of geriatrics.) Also, $50mm nationally is simply not a lot. There are individual leftist donors with strong pro-Palestinian views injecting that much into the media stream.
avoutos 1y ago
aipac is a middle-of-the-pack spender at best.
- slt2021 1y ago
  Its about impact, not only funding, because aipac has not only carrot ($$$), but also a stick (an army of lapdog press journos willing to write and smear anybody for anything). Just tells you how thrifty they are

JumpCrisscross 1y ago

> aipac is boasting about funding majority of congress and is openly forcing candidates to pledge loyalty. If they dont pledge, they unleash the usual tools Sure. The NRA does the same. There are various pro-Palestinian groups who also did the same last cycle; they may have helped swing Michigan for Trump. Spending money doesn’t change minds, it helps activate latent sentiment. Particularly on low-priority issues, which foreign policy usually is for most electeds.

slt2021 1y ago
spending money absolutely does change minds of a politician, this is the main purpose of a lobby and this is how proposals become laws. for example the most recent bogus "IHRA definition of antisemitism" was heavily lobbied and coordinated. This is the prime example of what money can do in politics
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago
  Have you paid for a lobbyist or effected legislation? You can raise and lower magnitudes. But you can’t change the sign of a position. Not unless it’s an issue the elected has literally never heard of before. (Or cannot remember. Lots of geriatrics.) Also, $50mm nationally is simply not a lot. There are individual leftist donors with strong pro-Palestinian views injecting that much into the media stream.

avoutos 1y ago

aipac is a middle-of-the-pack spender at best.

slt2021 1y ago
Its about impact, not only funding, because aipac has not only carrot ($$$), but also a stick (an army of lapdog press journos willing to write and smear anybody for anything). Just tells you how thrifty they are