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But Biden wouldn’t give me everything exactly the way I wanted! Guess I’ll just throw my vote away so Trump can win 🙄
Everything exactly the way I wanted? People are upset about funding genocide Holmes, what the fuck are you talking about?
Edit: I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, everyone is supposed to just be cool with genocide and deserve derision and mockery if they aren't? What the fuck happened to empathy?
I’ll always be amazed that in a discussion about how stupid something is, people do the same stupid thing.
I'll always be amazed at the neo liberal tendency to believe you can be as atrocious as you want because you're the "good guys". It's the voters fault they didn't vote for your candidate after all, the Harris and the Biden campaigns were both run perfectly. The Democrats were entitled to the presidency, but the population is just too stupid.
You must understand that Democrat voters are insanely racist and do not see Palestinians as human. They saw it as a side-issue because it does not affect them. This is showcased by their current disregard of the Democrats complicity in the genocide.
They do not care one single bit about brown people being slaughtered in droves by Joe Biden. They are now in glee those brown people were slaughtered.
Yeah, now we just get continued and worsened genocide in Gaza and an even faster decline into fascism in the United States! This was definitely worth it to stick it to the Dems!
And before you call me a lib, I'm not. I just have 2 brain cells to rub together and understood that voting 3rd party is sadly a complete and utter waste of time in our system. I also understood that letting Trump get elected was going to make things far, far worse like it already has.
Dems were far from perfect and aren't much better than the Republicans, but they are still better. I would love it if the socialist party or at least one leftist party could get elected, but I live under this fucked up system and until it's gone, we're stuck with 2 parties. At least until Trump or Elon bans Democrats from existing. Neither party will change that, but one of them is definitively better than the other
Look how casually this person talks about genocide. Refusing to participate in the modern day Holocaust started by the Democrats is "sticking it to the dems". Absolutely zero care for the massacared non white women and children.
At least be honest and say you do not care about brown people and think Trump will personally affect you worse.
Damn, now I'm just "this person"? I care immensely about the Palestinian people dying, thanks very much. I'm just being realistic about our options. In what possible way was sitting this out and letting Trump take over better for literally anybody in the world at all? Forget skin color, Trump and Elon taking over is bad for everybody expect the uber wealthy.
Just rolling over and letting a man who admitted he'd be a dictator on day one as well as saying he'd rather destroy Gaza than find a peaceful solution was definitely worth it to stick it to the Dems!
Unlike the Dems who were... Destroyed Gaza.
This video is about you. Watch it if you want to understand your own extreme racism. https://youtu.be/EEHmonK817w?t=7s
That’s great but please explain how Trumo being in office is going to help.
Do you care about Ukraine?
How is Trump in office relevant to Genocide Joe? Did Genocide Joe not do genocide because Trump is in office now?
So far Trump is doing a bang on job of uniting the entire world including Europe against Israel.
As for Ukraine sure. But Ukraine had already been abandoned by Biden. If America wanted Ukraine to win they would have sent them the weapons they needed at the beginning of the war. Not after 3 years.
I've been trying to explain this to people for about a year.
Support of Israel is non-negotiable in US politics. 95% of the political establishment supports whatever they want to do. So, it's not at all about Biden. Want to say Genocide US, sure, that makes sense. Pinning it on Biden just managed to slam him in an election year. The main point is that sure, after criticizing them, we didn't get Kamala or Biden, who had bad Palestine policies, but instead got someone worse who is also worse on basically every issue. Environment, labor, and financial regulation, human rights abroad, LGBT rights, policing, everything.
Ukraine had not been abandoned by Biden? They sent them something like $120 billion in arms right before Trump took office. What's Trump going to send? Nothing, most likely. I'm not sure what you're getting at there. The US has obviously given lots of support to Ukraine. Democrats have been all for it; Republicans have kicked up a fuss and said a bunch of bullshit about it, and now they're in charge.
It sure is strange to beliefs shoved into the mouths of millions of people like that. “Insanely racist” and “don’t see Palestine’s as human” is just about the stupidest and most ridiculous thing you could say about, of all voting demographics, the left in the US. Inane insulting nonsense like this is why people on lemmy don’t take the rest of your opinions seriously.
Yup, I helped elect trump by voting for Harris. Great analysis.
Sorry, I interpreted your post as sarcasm. I must have been too caught up in the onslaught of "genorcide Joe" stupidity here.
No, you're not supposed to be cool with funding genocide. The problem is that BOTH SIDES support the genocide, so you have to look at what other things differentiate them, like one side also wanting to kill LGBTQ people and immigrants, for example. The best option is damage mitigation, not sitting back and letting the greater evil win.
Yes, I don't disagree. That's what i did.
Framing anyone unhappy with genocide as a purity testing lefty who didn't get everything they wanted so they pouted and sat out the election is wildly blasé, however, and its gross that that's a popular sentiment here.
It's reasonable, because most people whining about supporting Israel's genocide don't acknowledge that it's a policy of the US government that anybody who could ever win an election would also support. It's unconscionable, it's horrible, it's a crime against humanity, but it's also not a factor in choosing who to vote for to cause the least harm in a shitty first past the post system.
Sorry but if you live in the US, then for 200+ years there have been two candidates each election with a chance of winning. If you wanted to cut off your nose to spite your face by not voting for Biden, which objectively only helped Trump, then congrats, you made everything worse for everyone. And that includes the Israel-Palestine conflict.
I voted for Harris.
Lol it’s the other way around. The “thousand small cuts” leading to Trump winning is that conservatives will consistently vote for a candidate as long as they support a single issue they care about (such as abortion). And liberals will consistently not vote for a candidate if they don’t support an issue they care about (such as Palestine).
People like you being ok with fracturing the left because of ideological puritanism versus the right being willing to coalesce around a despot who throws them a few bones is why Trump won.
Lol my way is to vote for the best of two candidates which does work and has objectively led to progress, if slowly. Just over 100 years ago we had legalized segregation and women couldn’t vote. 200 years ago we had literal slavery.
By comparison your suggestion is to not vote if you don’t get your perfect candidate. Do you want to point to a single example in the 200 year history of the US, or any country for matter, where that worked?
Lol this is such a comical statement it’s clear I’m talking to someone who can’t be reasoned with.
But you know what, keep doing what you do, don’t vote. I’ll be comfortable knowing you have literally no influence on anything because you’re too dumb to use the means provided to you to make a change.
Genuine change comes from grassroots organization and pressure, not beginning and ending your influence by voting. And yes, I voted for Harris. This is still entirely on the Democrats for failing to represent and advocate for what the majority of their constituents wanted at the cost of a incredibly important election
Actually I take it back, having seen your opinions I think it is in both of our best interests if you continue not voting.
Keep bridge burning instead of building too, let me know how that works out for you.
Waahhh you're being mean just because a bunch of lefties fucked up bigly!
We understand exactly why people didn’t want to vote for Joe and Kamala. That doesn’t change the fact that Trump is actively allowing Israel to kill all Palestinians and displace them permanently.
If you are defending not voting Kamala you are supporting Trump. It really is that simple. You are the leopard getting your face eaten and the pikachu face meme. My heart goes out to the people of Palestine.
I'm going to continue voting for the lesser of true evils because choosing to not participate is provably worse.
I agree we need to fix the system, and people are working to do that. When the choice is between someone who doesn't support you, and someone who actively, vocally supports your eradication, you have to be a particular kind of stupid to think sitting on the sidelines is going to help. This is why languages have metaphors and similes against doing what so many people did, like "burying your head in the sand," and "sitting on the sidelines," and probably the most ironic of all given to origin, "all that it takes for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing."
Which is exactly what they did. And now their people are suffering for it, asks women are suffering for it, and minorities, and civil rights... but hey, at least they made a bunch of other people suffer, too, huh?
They couldn't stomach genocide so they voted (or didn't vote at all) for MORE genocide, along with a host of other democracy-destroying actions and human rights atrocities across the world. Yeah, I'll treat them as enemies, they chose this.
moronic take
Do you think people who refuse to vote for a genocidal POS would vote for another zionist bootlicker?
They voted 3rd party OC. OC most of you morons voted for the D/R uniparty in your banana republic.
And you're just one of the losers still trying to cope that their precious slightly less fascist oligarch party lost.
And now all they got is bittezr nasty remarks about how Palestinians 'deserve it' bcs some cunt country didn't vote for more genocide. Just shows how nasty and racist you libs all are.
Well I hope Trump destroys your shitcountry as fast as possible.
You all deserve it. You are a cancer to the world.
Death to america!
Fascinating, truly, I'll give your wisdom about US elections from your Russian perspective all the consideration they are due
Their "family" is tied to the tracks before it splits off and kills many other people as well on the Trump path, so good job for them choosing more deaths over less deaths.
And the people who will be watching their LGBTQ, immigrant, etc. loved ones die? Pretty cold and calloused of you to not give a fuck about them.