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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Protesting against Biden’s Middle East policies is basically kids threatening to run away from home if their parents don’t buy them what they want.

They're grown adults choosing to be violently beaten by cops and vigilantes for their beliefs. Have some fucking respect.

Of course Biden is never going to say this because, again, he’s a politician and has a public image to keep, but he could literally reply to said protestors “Or else? You gonna let Trump win and do worse? Yeah right, now shut up and vote for me”, and they would have absolutely nothing to answer.

You're contradicting yourself.

He's a politician and has a public image to keep because he can't just say shit like that, because he's not actually invincible. Your cynicism is understandable, you've convinced yourself there's nothing you can do so the guilt doesn't eat you alive, but the truth is that Biden is vulnerable to public image because he still wants to be reelected. If he really believed that he was going to lose because of his support for genocide then he would change his policies. He can be pushed. You refuse to try because you're scared.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Where am I contradicting myself exactly? He has a public image to keep, so he can’t openly say that. But he very much can act accordingly anyway, and that’s what he’s doing. Because he knows we have no viable alternative and anyone who seriously cares about minimizing casualties (so apparently not you) will not risk Trump getting reelected over some moral superiority that means nothing. He’s never going to lose over his support for genocide because you literally can’t vote against it. That’s how two-party systems work, period. The only reasons he can possibly lose over are differences between his agenda and his opponent’s, and genocide is unfortunately not one of those.

You’re the one trying to avoid guilt so that when a genocide-enabling candidate inevitably gets elected you can say to yourself “well at least I didn’t vote for them!”.