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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by spujb@lemmy.cafe to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

The US primaries and the general election are two different things. Voting uncommitted in the primary expresses support for the Palestinian plight and does not give Republicans any ground.

The uncommitted movement presents a safe and effective avenue for voters to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden’s policies, particularly with the Israel-Hamas conflict. By doing so in the primary, voters can signal discontent without risking a Republican victory in the general election. The purpose is to send a wake-up call to the Biden administration that it is failing to address issues and effectively engage with the party, vis a vis that Biden is enabling a genocide.

That being said, anyone who calls for an uncommitted or third-party vote in the general election i will personally kick in the gender neutral balls (in Minecraft).

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[-] Granixo@feddit.cl 19 points 8 months ago

Both Israel and Palestine countries are led by killing psychos.

There, i said it.

You can ban me now.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You mean Gaza? AFAIK the Palestine Authority considers Hamas criminals.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

some where in there is Israel and we might need a fourth spiderman for maybe the US.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

You only have 2 on this conversation. AFAIK, the Palestine Authority does not engage in terrorism and persecutes it criminally.

So, well, you can pick any one for the other party you want to add.

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

and the us! all three

isn’t that just wonderful

edit: as others pointed out, Hamas =/= Palestine. so maybe look into why you are equating those two 🫤

[-] djsoren19@yiffit.net 5 points 8 months ago

This really shouldn't be such a controversial take. Every side of this conflict fucking sucks, and they've all sucked for decades. Israel sucks for electing a fascist, Palestine sucks due to being religious fundamentalists, the U.S. sucks for doing all this in the first place and building Israel up as a superpower in the region, and all the surrounding Middle Eastern powers suck because they claim a Free Palestine is a priority while doing fuck-all to support it. Even if a miracle ceasefire is called, there is no geopolitical will for a Free Palestine, so Israel will just do this again in 10 years once their stockpiles are replenished.

There's no such thing as a good state. All states gradually trend toward fascism, at varying rates. But this quote from "Anarchism and Its Aspirations" by Cindy Milstein really helped me parse situations like this, especially since it cites Palestine as an example:

If we understand this sense of negative and positive freedom, what appears as a contradictory stance within anarchism makes perfect sense. An anarchist might firmly believe that the Palestinian people deserve to be liberated from occupation, even if that means that they set up their own state. That same anarchist might also firmly believe that a Palestinian state, like all states, should be opposed in favor of nonstatist institutions. A complete sense of freedom would always include both the negative and positive senses—in this case, liberation from occupation and simultaneously the freedom to self-determine. Otherwise, as both actually existing Communist and liberal regimes have demonstrated, “freedom from” on its own will serve merely to enslave human potentiality, and at its most extreme, humans themselves; self-governance is denied in favor of a few governing over others. And “freedom to,” on its own, as capitalism has shown, will serve merely to promote egotistic individualism and pit each against each; self-determination trumps notions of collective good. Constantly working to bring both liberation and freedom to the table, within moments of resistance and reconstruction, is part of that same juggling act of approximating an increasingly differentiated yet more harmonious world.

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 2 points 8 months ago

She is a treasure and that quote makes perfect sense to me. I loved her “Try Anarchism for Life” book.

I've got that on my reading list!

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

look at this motherfucker and his both sidesing JAQing off lol /s

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'd use "ruled" instead of "led".

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