what's happening in America is not democracy, Joe, but what's happening in Gaza is absolutely genocide, and has been since the 1940s.
Guys, can you vote for some third candidate in the US? You have two utter shits as primary candidates, what the actual fuck?
They have first-past-the-post voting. So no, unfortunately.
In "safe" states like California, where Trump will never win, we can vote third party as a protest vote without worrying that we'll help Trump get elected.
In states with a very thin margin ("swing" states), fewer votes for Biden could very well mean Trump winning that state.
translation: "We absolutely reject the notion that it is a genocide because it implies that America helped to arm and fund a genocide and America would never do such a thing...we're the good guys. Good guys don't commit genocide. ergo, not genocide. My logic is unimpeachable. /s
I beg to differ.
Get fuckt
Is not genocide if you don't consider them people, right? Just animal victims.
This is what we get when the Boomer mind set is still in charge. Hopefully a younger person would have only supplied Israel with defense, Iron Dome, etc... and not weapons, bombs to attack. Unfortunately we are stuck with the choice of 2 Boomers.
I still don't get how there are one issue voters. Trump would be much worse on this many other issues to say the least. Giving Trump 4 more years to further wreck our democracy and appoint more Far-Right Supreme court justices is totally short sighted. ~~I've been voting since 2000~~ (Edit: this kinda makes me sound like a douche, "I've been voting for years so listen to me!" Sorry aboot dat), and protest votes or not voting only gets Republicans elected. Just like Paul Weyrich said Paul Wayrich
Biden's older than a Boomer though, he's Silent Generation. (Trump is on the older end, but indeed a Boomer.) I'm curious if you'll ever have a Gen X president some day, but it's not really generation that matters so much as having someone of reasonable intelligence who has empathy and integrity instead of yet another power-networking fundraising wizard.
Damn, you're right. My bad. You can't be a Boomer until after WWII, duh that was silly. Thanks 👍
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Tankie Joe doing some more Genocide denial.
Bow down for glorious overlord Netanyahu everyone.
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