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Dismally looking forward to when they don’t vote for Biden and then Trump’s back in office and he gives Netanyahu the green light to kill as many as he wants
Well what are they suppose to do? Kiss his ass because he's not as bad as Trump? I don't see the issue with pointing out the hypocrisy of supplying weapons to a genocide while calling for peace at the location of a mass shooting.
Kiss his ass? No.
Vote for him because he's the alternative to a waking nightmare for a large part of my fellow Americans? Yes
Do I wish the system was better? Yes. And to that point I'm voting for the guy who still believes in government and rule of law. If I ever want the system to change, I need to vote for the party that is interested in governance.
If they vote for Trump they're a garbage human. If they abstain, they're a coward hiding behind "muh principles" while our neighbors have their rights stripped away.
Edit: fucking tankies lol
First past the post voting is horrible. But until we get ranked choice, either hold your nose and vote, or understand that not voting is EXACTLY EQUIVALENT to a vote for whoever you hate most.
CPG grey did a great video on why first past the post sucks.
Claiming to support a better system while refusing to abandon the current one that doesn't work is performative. Biden does not believe in rule of law or the rights of humans. He and the DNC needs to be abandoned.
Difference is, if you vote for Trump or just don’t vote and Trump gets back in, that will make it WAY harder to change the system.
If we want the system to change, we have to get involved in local politics: pass Ranked Choice Voting, form and cultivate third parties to be viable alternatives, work to get money out politics. RCV is a very attainable goal.
Sadly, I believe the only other option is revolution; that’s our current reality. I don’t see any other peaceful way that we could fix our corrupt and broken government. We no longer have a functioning federal government and democracy; we have an oligarchy and a political party that’s gone off the deep end into total fascism and Dominionism, with supporters who have started committing acts of terrorism when we push back against them.
Gotcha. So voting in support of a little bit of genocide is okay.
So you have no domestic policies you care about? Like being able to vote against genocide in the future? Cause Trump has a lot of policies in mind that would seem to prevent doing anything about that later down the line.
I can't even call it shortsighted because it's not like the other option is even going to help things short term. If anything the other option is just going to be even worse. So I don't really get the stance other than a nihilistic "let everything burn" response.
Voting to support a little genocide, vs not voting and allowing a big genocide... Now where have I seen a philosophical problem like that before...
People seem to have forgotten that Trump helped oppose a UN vote to cease Israeli settlement activity in Palestinian territory that Obama/Biden weren’t going to oppose. Flynn lied about that call, and that’s why Mueller indicted him.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/01/08/the-first-time-trump-colluded-with-russia-was-to-help-bibi-netanyahu/
Absolutely, therefore they should shut the fuck up and not pressure the sitting President about his support of an ongoing genocidal terror campaign. Smh voters getting uppity, don't they know it's an election year
It's important that Biden doesn't even FEEL like this will affect his chances.
He must look at the current polls and go "looks like we can keep this genocide going for another 4 years, it's pretty popular".
Get back in line and bow to your god emperor Genocide Joe!
Populists don't roll with this logic. Any blemish on the part of someone they vote for, they consider their own. You can't reconcile harm reduction with this mindset, because you have to hate anyone who isn't 100% in alignment with your ideology. So, you get the rightist populists tossing McCarthy out for keeping the gov open, and the leftist populists willing to let the country burn because Biden can't unilaterally control Netanyahu's gov or abandon one of the few Western footprints in the middle east. And they never consider the consequences for doing nothing theirs to own. Inaction is bowing out for populists, while you recognize it as what it is, a choice of its own with consequences. Even once the consequences are upon us, they'll just blame Biden, the DNC, whatever. Responsibility and owning your choices is anathema to populism.
Biden can denounce the genocide of Palestine at any time. Instead he has been bypassing congress to fast track more weapons to Israel. At this point, the only difference between Biden's response and a theoretical Trump response is that Trump would probably try to get some boots on the ground.
If threatening to elect Trump is what it takes for Biden to stop sending U.S ammunition directly into the heads of Palestinian children, then the ends will have justified the means.
Wait how is boots on the ground just treated as a "whatever"? That's usually pretty big isn't it?
Trump would try. I don't know if Netanyahu would ask for troops, and I don't know if Trump and the GQP would be able to fabricate enough evidence for the U.S. public to stomach a foreign war against Hamas, but I know Trump is stupid enough that he'd make a grand, sweeping statement about putting U.S. troops in Gaza before anything was approved.
It's not just okay to vote for someone and then yell at them, it's vital to a functioning democracy to vote for the person whose values most closely reflect your own, and then to yell at them in an effort to force their values closer to yours.