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Nothing could surprise me less than bipartisan support for Israel amongst Congressional staffers.
From the youth though? This support being intranational among the youth?
I mean it runs counter to everything this post talks about. Israel support has been growing again and now because of anything Israel is doing but the clarity in this war and what Israel has done. People love to say AIPAC "owns" politicians but they do not consider at all the WILD dark money that is believed to come from the Gulf Nations for our elections. Hell AIPAC is at least public about it but the Gulf Nations.... yeah operate purely in the shadows.
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I haven't seen anything showing support for Israel growing, no that that means much.
A quick search confirmed the steep drop off in support for Israel by generation, although Gen X is higher than I remembered. This Brookings poll is two years old, but they all showed the same trend.
That those who would get hired for staffer jobs support Israel is consistent with the idea that AIPAC wields a lot of influence, especially since it's so at odds with the population at large (in that age group).
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Perhaps AIPAC is one of the best referrers for congressional staff. Might as well capture the staff as well as the pols.
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Lol or you just look at the data since AIPAC isnt a dark money org so you can compare the funds from Countries like Qatar, the UAE, and Saudi to what AIPAC contributes and the numbers are night and day difference. I thought data mattered or was important idk I remember when facts mattered and the facts are showing you are wrong lmao
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I guess the AIPAC is strong in them! Said Yoda.
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LMAO if you are ignoant to think that the Saudi's, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and others are not pumping WILD sums of money into the dark money Super Pacs for both sides I mean Jesus
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Do you have any evidence that it's of similar or greater magnitude to what Israel/AIPAC spend?
Or is this more "trust me bro" argumentation?
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Ironically this Reddit user really took the public data and complied it for just a few of the Gulf States and compared it to the AIPAC money and welp it tells a story that is starkly different.
Here is another source with data of Gulf Coast funding.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/03/foreign-money-think-tanks-00196252
So yeah its a trust me bro and here are the receipts lol
Feel free to look at https://www.opensecrets.org/ they tend to have some of the most up to date data out there that can be tracked.
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Also do not forget the Gulf States funneling of money into American Universities and to President Trump like Qatar with a new Air Force 1
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That is interesting. Thanks for sharing
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People like Roth try to make it a black and white thing but this is politics and so that just isnt the case. A huge huge reason for dark money is the fact it is near impossible to track unless they want you to be able to track it.
Thus you have to look at what dark money is pushing as well as what these countries are doing in public that people might not think to tie back to trying to influence the government.
Hell I went to Texas A&M and am damn proud of it but Texas A&M Qatar has long been a huge question to me and well earlier this year when issues were brought up with it Texas A&M immediately moved to shutter the campus with it being complete by I think 2027.... they were letting the students who were already there graduate.
Reddit!?!?!?!?!?!?!? OK a very reliable source of real information, right?
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No, it is trust Reddit, bro kind of argument.
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I just love these ad hominem attacks as substitutes for reasoning, don’t you?
They really work well for convincing your adversary.
No doubt they are!! Nobody implied that politicians in the US were especially cheap, did they? Just another case of follow the money, isn’t it?
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