Opinion | How Ireland Fell Out of Love With Joe Biden - The New York Times
Opinion | How Ireland Fell Out of Love With Joe Biden - The New York Times
The president’s complicity with Israel’s assault on Gaza has damaged his relationship with the Irish people, perhaps irreparably.
I see the accounts that post about 60% "here's why Biden is bad" articles, and occasional one-off comments about how Biden / "the Dems" are bad, and pretty much not much else, have arrived on Beehaw.
40Of the last 12 articles I've posted, only 3 could be construed as negative towards Biden. If he doesn't want shitty publicity, maybe he should stop doing a genocide.
6he should stop doing a genocide.
As soon as he's the one actually doing the genocide, instead of merely continuing long-standing US pro-war-crimes-by-our-allies policy (which, I'll agree, is pretty much war criminal on his part and his weak little baby steps towards maybe not doing it anymore sometime in the theoretical future are not nearly enough)... then I'll agree with this statement. As it is, it's a deliberate distortion.
Of the last 12 articles I've posted, only 3 could be construed as negative towards Biden
Not true.
- OP article, 1 / 1
- Gaza as it pertains to US policy, 1.5 / 2
- Gaza specifically pertaining to Biden and Harris, 2.5 / 3
- Hunter Biden, 3.5 / 4
- Gaza in general, 3.5 / 5
- Hunter Biden, 4.5 / 6
- Robotic police dog, 4.5 / 7
- State Dept employees angry at Biden's policy, 5 / 8
- Same State Dept story reposted, 5.5 / 9
- US threatens PA, with a picture of Biden looking old, 6.5 / 10
- "Dumbasses" from State Dept - 7 / 11
- Online Gambling - 7 / 12
We could quibble about at what point a story about US policy in general counts as a story about Biden; I gave those ones half a point and arrived at 58% of the stories being criticism of Biden with multiple Hunter Biden stories being the red flag. Others might assign the points differently but it bears mentioning that the next three after that were all heavily and explicitly anti-Biden stories (incl. those two laughably slanted ones about Bidenomics.)
Obviously giving Biden grief over his Gaza policy or anything else is completely legitimate; I actually posted the exact same story you did about the State Dept employee angrily resigning, because it's important. But equally obviously, there's a pattern of accounts posting in a very particular way which includes a constant daily drumbeat of more-or-less-subtle anti Biden stories and individual one-off comments like this one without much engagement outside of that, and you're behaving like one of those accounts, and that's worth commenting on. No?
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But it also urges restraint in Israel’s response, making multiple interventions at the European Union level and consistently calling for a cease-fire and a political solution to the carnage.
Though St. Patrick’s Day was months away, protesters looked to the annual meeting in Washington between the Irish prime minister, or taoiseach, and the American president.
It was transformed with a slight modification into a mural in Belfast, a city where Palestinian flags have long flown in nationalist communities; was spray-painted along tram tracks in Dublin; and took hold on social media, where people drew black shamrocks on the palms of their hands.
In the press, commentators lined up to pass judgment on the American president, including the acclaimed novelist Sally Rooney, who characterized the assault on Gaza as “Biden’s war.” The criticism, at times, has been intimate.
In County Louth, where Mr. Biden’s great-grandfather James Finnegan was born, a group of people gathered at a graveyard to castigate the president for betraying his roots.
“But then, once in a lifetime/The longed-for tidal wave/Of justice can rise up,/And hope and history rhyme.” As Irish people look across the Atlantic to Ireland’s great-grandson, many are waiting for that rhyme to land.
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