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I don't at all understand what the point is here. Do you think that Trumo will support Gazans? Trump has said he would wholeheartedly take Israel's side and provide more support than the current administration. There isn't a choice between what you have and what you want. It's between what you have and something worse than what you have.
Trump winning doesn't force Democrats to support Gazans. It forces them to side with Israel in order to appeal to the electorate.
the point is that neither trump or kamala support gazans despite whatever they say and expecting a group with the closest proximity to the genocide to accept your view that one genocide is better than the other is privilege at its worst.
A black and white view of the world gets you nowhere. There is a huge difference in the way that this administration has handled this war and the way that Trump says he plans to handle it. To say that there is no difference in the degree of support these people would provide to Israel or Gazans is incredibly naive. Your choices are grass flavored ice cream, or shit flavored ice cream. Vanilla isn't on the menu, and you have to pick one. "I don't like either", as if the two choices are the same, is living in a fantasy world.
take your own advice: there are more options out there beyond democrat or republican and these two have gone to great lengths to convince you that anything else is a fantasy world.
generations of black and white only american voting has led us to this situation and the sooner we start seeing in color the sooner that we can stop accepting genocide as a lesser evil. this system demonstrably only permits black and white voting and perpetuating it will turn that lesser evil into acceptable behavior if we don't stop; knowing that and doing it anyways makes you complicit.
no one is forcing you to vote with a conscience; it's just automatically better than listening to a groupthink that establishes that some genocide can be acceptable from now on.
Man, I feel like this comment doesn't take the election process in America into account. Sure you could vote 3rd party and have a clean conscience, but it's at the cost of the worst of two options gaining power.
It also ignores that many of the the non-core policies of both major parties move toward the policies of the winning party. If Trump wins, support for Gaza in both parties will decrease. Not that there's never a reason to vote third party, but nothing about third party voting is advantageous for this particular issue.
Thanks for saying this.
Agreed, and that makes people not know how to act, because there is no reasonable way to act.
Maybe killing innocent people is wrong, and people shouldn't do that.
People who deliberately misquote people are not worth talking with. There is a choice and if you think pretending like there isn't one gets you somewhere, prepare for a very different approach to this war when Trump takes office.
Hey, the trash takes itself out.