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Because I can say that both sides are deplorable and wrong? In fact, I can even say they're both deplorable and wrong in uneven amounts, but that both meet the bar of "deplorable and wrong."

You think you have to choose a side between the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel? You think you need to send one of them money?

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So if we stopped sending money to Israel you’d stop talking about Israel and Gaza forever?

This idea that people only care about Israel because we support them with our tax dollars is such a joke

Well I care about it principally because of the degree to which it distorts our politics. The funding is one cause and effect of that distortion but there are others. For example the theological allegiance between US evangelicals and Zionists is a shockingly powerful force in US politics.

But yes the component that morally implicates me personally is the funding and it’d be a big improvement not to participate in it.

Just like I don’t think it’s obvious that we should fund Sinaloa despite them being decidedly less monstrous than New Generation.

Why wouldn’t you answer the question that I asked? Do we need to pick a side in the cartel wars? If no, why is that different?

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