# Senate races 2026

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 28, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/senate-races-2026/1013534 "2025-01-28T15:04:17Z")\
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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> Then the parallel statement would be that the problems with Hamas extend beyond the current leadership. I don’t think that’s even a little controversial.

Yeah, if you strip out the term “bloodthirsty” and replace it with the milquetoast “problematic”, I agree it wouldn’t be even a little bit controversial.

> [@DeadTreasSecretaries](#):
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> “Hanas is a big reason Palestine has gotten so bloodthirsty under their reign but for a long time we’ve been funding the people in Palestine who have been trying to cut off the 2 state solution and live in peace with a Jewish state” would be completely inoffensive to say.

I guarantee you that if you said anything about “the reason why **Palestine** has gotten so bloodthirsty” you would immediately be branded Islamophobic.

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