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politically motivated
Of course we'd never want our politicians to act in a way that maximises the chances of their political goals being achieved. That would be cynical!
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I dunno, I kind of feel like maybe, just maybe, putting pressure on the people responsible for the death of tens of thousands of civilians (half of them children) to you know, stop killing people indiscriminately is a little more important than gaining another point or
two in opinion polls that you already have a massive lead in. Also, yeah, it is incredibly cynical and given the context, really fucking gross.
chickenbones
I was talking about the vote on the bill, when all that had been happening for some time but ok.
even if I accept yr premise, was it worth waiting for how ever many more thousands of people being killed so it "carries more weight"? Of course not It wasn't politically advantageous at the time for him to call for a ceasefire so he didn't. He argued against it. Now he's seen which way public and media sentiment is going he's changed his tune entirely.
Hardly like that's the only thing he's done a 180 on is it, and I think it takes some real mental gymnastics to convince oneself that it's anything other than politically motivated tbh