• Zexks@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Of all the reasons to not vote for her. Gaza is the dumbest of them all.

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      Remember the cops beating the shit out of students across the country? If she pledged to end support for Israel, instead of being “the other genocide candidate”, Trump would have been the “resume genocide” candidate, and all those politically activated students would be getting their friends to vote. Between that and their response to 2020, they showed the next generation that the democrats are a dead end for enacting social change.

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        Trump IS the BURN ALL PALESTINIANS AND TURN GAZA INTO YHE VEGAS OF THE MIDDLE EAST candidate. And that was somehow better. But yeah you’re right. We should capitulate the entire country and everything else because of that right. Fuck it, if we can’t have perfection let’s just burn it all down.

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          From the POV of someone who just wants the Genocide to stop, “Burning all Palestinians and tuning Gaza into New Vegas” and “Burning all Palestinians and tuning Gaza into vacation homes for rich Israelis” is functionally equivalent.

          That was by no means the only issue I based my vote on, but I also don’t think it’s unreasonable for someone to conclude that voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil

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            17 hours ago

            Well one of those evils is going to control you and everyone else one way or another so yes it is unreasonable to not vote for damage mitigation.

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              17 hours ago

              Hence why I said that wasn’t the only factor in determining my vote.

              The question is though, where will it end? I’m 51 years old and ever since I have been able to vote the choices have been between a shit bag, and an even worse shit bag.

              At some point we have to put pressure on the DNC to put up someone who is actually woth voting for, and if they know we will always vote for the lesser evil, what incentive do they have to change their strategy?

              Harris was already a Republican in all but name and she only looked good compared to Hitler 2.0, if this trend continues the only “choice” will be between a far right fascist, and an extremely far right fascist.

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          2 days ago

          Harris could have capitalized on no genocide. You cant run on "genocide, but at least we’ll pretend to oppose it:, thats not how humans work.

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            17 hours ago

            That’s exactly how the world works. Everyone trying to act like it’s not is simply ignoring reality.

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      Of all the reasons to not vote for her. Gaza is the dumbest of them all.

      exhibit #6569 of centrists not knowing and just not caring what their constituents care about.

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      It was just an example.

      Her support of genocide didn’t win her any favor along with her support of the ruling class.