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I'm the punishment guy. First of all you ignored the latter half of my comment, where I said that this contradiction between civil rights at home and genocide abroad was only going to result in Trump. You can want things to happen all you want, but it was never going to work in reality. Second, yes, exactly. It's your punishment for eliminating the option where you oppose genocide out of hand when you had a whole year to change course. I can barely accept saying "it's too late to change things now so vote blue" in October, but "hold your nose and vote for her" in August, or—even worse—"Biden can't step down now" in February? Calling anri-genocde critics of the party MAGA or Russian trolls? Fucking unforgivable. I have seen the way Arabs opposing the genocide of their friends and family were talked about here, and the "leopards ate my face" comments on every article about the death of a Palestinian. Not every American is directly responsible, don't get me wrong, but with a crime as big as the merciless murder of at least a quarter million people almost every American is one way or another within the radius of moral culpability.
Tl;DR: Didn't want MAGA Hitler? Then you should've opposed the damn genocide.
You are literally arguing for collective punishment. You realize that, right?
You're right, I didn't read all of your comment. I skimmed it at best (which is why I didn't reply directly). The choice was not "civil rights at home" and "genocide abroad." it was "both suck with Gaza, but one is a blood thirsty dumbass, and the other is your run of the mill bullshit politician." i don't know who is spreading this narrative that everyone who voted was voting for genocide or voting with the idea of trade off. I have not met anyone (personally) who was like," man, I hate Harris' stance on Gaza, but as long as she gives me rights, I don't care." It was Nazi VS Shitty Politician. I don't know why the concept of not wanting to have a Nazi in charge is akin to saying "yes, please bomb Gaza. I'm totally okay with it." I wasn't okay with it when Biden did it, I wasn't okay when Harris said she supported Biden's actions, and I'm not okay with it now that Trump is making Ai videos of condos built on graves. I did oppose genocide and I still do.
Also, what option did I eliminate? You're acting like election day was the only time people tried anything. In November, yes, it was too late. We didn't rally behind a third candidate, we didn't even get to vote for Harris as our candidate. There were protests, but, by November, it wasn't enough. We failed. And as much as I would have wanted to say "fuck this" I knew that it wasn't going to make literally anything any better by not voting, but would make a shit ton worse because one candidate can do and appears to be doing more damage to the other.
TL;DR: I have and still do oppose genocide and I do not believe that on election night there was a realistic chance that we could get a candidate in office that aligned with everything I would have wanted, but there was a candidate that would have made the struggle a tiny bit easier. I do not believe that Americans that voted for Harris (or honestly didn't vote all all, regardless of my opinion) were doing it with the idea that Gaza was a worthy scarfice.