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    I know that the hold that Israel (and the military industrial complex) has on both major political parties is money, Money, MONEY. But there has got to be a breaking point. I thought the breaking point would be the indiscriminate slaughter of innocent children, but alas.

    I mean, I will still vote for Harris, because I’m not stupid. I know the alternative is far worse. But I’d rather not have innocent blood on my hands after I fill out that ballot.

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      If you (or anyone else) will never change your vote about it, why would they adjust their position?

      You’ve given them no downside to continuing to support genocide other than the weight of thousands of innocent dead on their consciences. It should be fairly obvious how much that affects them.

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        Unfortunately, there is a downside to allowing Trump to win. It’s the trolly problem and yes I will help pull the lever that kills people to keep even more people from dying.

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          They will never negotiate with you, even on genocide, if you vote for them 24/7. Where is the red line?

          It took Ronald Reagan one phone call to get them to stop bombing Lebanon.

          Margaret Thatcher put a 10-year long arms embargo on them in the 80s.

          Modern democrats are worse than Republicans from the 70s.

          This can be shown with Biden’s draconian crime bill.

          his full involvement in the “war on terror”.

          Kamala ignoring the Supreme Court’s decision on releasing nonviolent prisoners after overcrowding, as they were being used for slave labor.

          The Marginal tax rate being lower TODAY than it was after Reagan passed his tax cuts.

          They will never move to be more progressive if progressives still vote for them.

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            Modern democrats are worse than Republicans from the 70s.

            Today’s lesser evil was the greater evil yesterday.

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            I’m gonna assume your argument is is good faith. You’re absolutely correct about all of it. It fucking sucks. But the other side is the the same if not even worse. The reality is that right now the choice is between Harris and Trump. One of those two options will be leading the US next year. Not voting for Harris means Trump will be the leader.

            If you want to convince people to stop voting for Harris you need to argue why Trump leading the US next year is a better outcome for Palestine. I haven’t been able to find a reason.

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              The argument is that continuing to reward genocidal behavior will never result in the party going left to get your vote. You’re demonstrating that they can literally missile strike babies and you’ll still vote for them. They don’t need to do anything to cater to you at all, but hey maybe they’ll throw a bone to your racist uncle and maybe he’ll vote for them instead of the ghoul the GOP runs 4 years from now.

              Why ever give anything to the left when “look at the other side” always gets you to fall in line? You’ve completely taken yourself off the board, politically.

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              Haven’t you figured out by now, Democrats will always have a Trump?

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          Democrats already started the second genocide in Lebanon.

          And soon a war with Iran.

          All the “greater evils” of Trump will have been fulfilled by democrats before Trump even become president

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            That is a total lie. That’s a very small segment of what Trump would do, and Trump wants to accelerate that too. He also holds a lot of anti-trans positions and anti-woman positions.

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              Don’t forget that Trump has pretty much promised to import the genocide home. It might not start off with people being gunned down in the street, but it’s definitely going to make life hard-to-impossible for immigrants, LGBTQIA+ people, and everyone who’s not a straight white man.

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            However the American presidential election and the consequences of it’s outcome certainly is in large part about Donald fucking Trump.

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        Following polls, they would have an upside of about a 6 point boost if they changed on policy. Which is certainly significant with the race as close as it is.

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        Our first matchup tested a Democrat and a Republican who “both agree with Israel’s current approach to the conflict in Gaza”. In this case, the generic candidates tied 44–44. The second matchup saw the same Republican facing a Democrat supporting “an immediate ceasefire and a halt of military aid and arms sales to Israel”. Interestingly, the Democrat led 49–43, with Independents and 2020 non-voters driving the bulk of this shift.

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        In Pennsylvania, 34% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7% who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference. In Arizona, 35% said they’d be more likely, while 5% would be less likely. And in Georgia, 39% said they’d be more likely, also compared to 5% who would be less likely.

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        Majorities of Democrats (67%) and Independents (55%) believe the US should either end support for Israel’s war effort or make that support conditional on a ceasefire. Only 8% of Democrats but 42% of Republicans think the US must support Israel unconditionally.

        Republicans and Independents most often point to immigration as one of Biden’s top foreign policy failures. Democrats most often select the US response to the war in Gaza.

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        If you (or anyone else)

        Voters are a spectrum. Some number of people in OhStepYellingAtMe’s rough demographic either started out less engaged or have a more visceral reaction and won’t vote. A reliable Democratic vote being demotivated means an unreliable vote may already be lost. Not threatening to withhold your individual vote doesn’t mean comments like this aren’t a warning sign.

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          A warning sign the Harris campaign has continued to ignore and done nothing to try to win back.

          If they think they can win without people who won’t vote for genocide, best of luck to them, but they clearly don’t want my vote, so I see no reason why I should give it to them.

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            people who won’t vote for genocide,

            Would you prefer to vote for the candidate who has been calling for a cease fire, or the one that has bent over for Netanyahu in the past and fully plans to do it again?

            Because those are the only 2 options available.

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              I won’t be voting for either of the two parties’ candidates as long as they remain pro-genocide.

              If they want my vote they’re more than welcome to come out with a strong stance against genocide.

              Pretty low bar. If neither candidate is willing to meet it I can only assume they do not want my vote.

              If they don’t want my vote they either don’t think they need it or they’re more committed to genocide than winning the election.

              It’s their call.

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                The not voting strategy has never worked before, why would it work this time? You want the let the future of this country determined by someone else?

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                The other option is that they simultaneously believe they need your vote, but also know that they would lose more voters than they would gain if they did what you’re asking. It’s not entirely clear that this is what’s happening, as there’s not been much indication that Kamala believes what Israel is doing is horrific, but it’s a very real possibility that you aren’t including. And in that case, voting for her remains the best you can do, since you not voting for her won’t convince the other people who’s vote she would lose. It will just lead to trump being elected.

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                  Some people, myself included, have principles which prevent them from voting for a genocidal candidate, even in a first past the post system where the other candidate is more genocidal.

                  There’s very little point in trying to convince people who have a moral objection against supporting genocide to support genocide.

                  Like, y’all could have a whole people-led movement to elect a third party if you really wanted to, and if nothing else it would maybe put pressure on the Democrats to stop supporting genocide, but you’re so fucking brainwashed into believing that a third party will never matter that you’re incapable of even conceiving the thought.

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        What are we going to change our vote to? Only two parties can win this year (let’s change that) and the other option is worse on this issue.

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          I’ll vote for someone who is vocally and demonstrably anti-genocide. If that’s neither of the main parties’ candidates that’s their problem.

          I will not vote for genocide.

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            Not voting is a choice. Not voting is saying you’re okay with either option. You’re OK with fascism because you can’t bear to have neoliberalism instead. Maybe you’d rather have genocide of both Arabs and Latin Americans? Maybe you’d rather have a president who has promised to make the genocide worse than one who might put some amount of pressure to make it less bad.

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              I’d rather have a president who’s anti-genocide, so I’ll be voting for one of the anti-genocide candidates.

              You’re okay with voting for genocide. I’m not.

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        Welcome to two party systems. The only way out is to abolish FPTP voting, the electoral college and (In the case of local/state elections) gerrymandering.

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        You wanna go to prison for that wrong-think. Cause that is what the other candidate is going to do. As well as provide EVEN MORE support to Israel.

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          Both parties are currently fighting each other over who can say they support Israel more right now. They’re both falling over each other to do more genocide. I’m not voting for a candidate that supports genocide. I’m especially not voting for a candidate who thinks doubling down on doing genocide is going to get them more votes.

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            One party has actual muslims in it’s caucus. the other party is obviously in the bag for Bibi.

            I call bullshit, you were either never going to vote or never going to vote dem either way.

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                you’ve missed the entire point. we wouldn’t vote for a trump no matter what party. we weigh the good against the the bad and make an informed, imperfect decision.

                That’s the system we’ve got. Man, I would love for this election to propel a new third party based on ideal policies into the fray - I REALLY DO - but whining and moaning that you WON’T choose between the two NOW is years too late. And it fucks LGBTQ, women, immigrants, ukraine and so many others over.

                Stop being a one-issue dilettante and join the real world.

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                  Because the muslims you’re bombing aren’t worth as much as the pure white Ukronazis!

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                  no, I got the point perfectly. if the democrat party put a clone of trump as their pick for president, and he was running against the non-clone trump, you would vote for the trump clone, and convince yourself that you were making an informed, measured, tactical, grown-up choice. it’s mass delusion.

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      The slaughter of innocent children makes no difference to sociopaths.

      If there is one thing this Genocide on its way to Holocaust has shown us. is that the Democrat Party leadership are without a doubt sociopaths of the worst kind: a normal person with the power they have would not be actively helping it by sending the Neue Nazis the very weapons which they know are being used to massacre children.

      There really is no other possible conclusion: no normal person would go “yeah but our campaign contributions from the AIPAC are more important than tens of thousands of dead children” or “yeah but the profits of the MIC shareholders are more important than tens of thousands of dead children”.

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        It’s more than that, it’s the Petro-Dollar, where the US exploits the Global South with predatory IMF loans, aka Imperialism.

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          Fossil Fuels are decreasing as a percentage of the overall energy supply that powers so much of the Economy and Industrial and Agricultural production in Western Economies are a small fraction of the total (less than 20% together).

          Nowadays it’s not about the West making things with pillaged resources from the Global South, it’s all Financialization and the Ultra-Wealthy extracting the last leftover wealth from everybody, everything and everywhere like the endgame in a Monopoly Game.

          Oil by itself is not enough justification, IMHO.

          Besides, Israel is being the very opposite of a force for stability in the region, which isn’t going to help the Petro-Dollar.

          (If you go check the Gold markets, it’s never been this high, something which possibly signals increasing distrust in the US Dollar and other main currencies)

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            Israel is being the very opposite of a force for stability in the region, which isn’t going to help the Petro-Dollar.

            Israel being a destabilizing force gives the US leverage over the oil rich nations of the region. That’s why Israel is important for the petrodollar. I’m also not sure the US currently has a way to maintain its global economic dominance without the petrodollar. That’s in part why I think you see the US doubling down on support for Israel even in a context where doing so is increasingly risky.

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        If there is one thing this Genocide on its way to Holocaust has shown us. is that the Democrat Party leadership are without a doubt sociopaths of the worst kind

        Nah, they’re normal people well adjusted to an evil system. The trial of the nazis showed that it wasn’t mental illness, just normal people doing very evil things.

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          Since Psychopathy and Sociopathy are ranges rather than absolutes, it’s estimated that about 4% of humans are Psychopaths or Sociopaths and we’re talking about the what’s basically the handful of people in a universe of over 300 million who seeks and achieves positions at the top of the Power Duopoly in the US in a domain well know for it’s cut-throating and backstabbing, I would say that the odds heavily favour the explanation of them being very high on the Sociopath (or Psychopath) - so called “well adjusted Sociopaths” - spectrum than them being normal people who are “relaxed about personally enabling the murder of tens of thousands of children”.

          The image of a Sociopaths or Psychopath who actively seeks to inflict horrible pain on others for their own pleasure is incredibly atypical and Hollywoodesque - being high on those scales just means having no empathy for others, including their suffering or joy, and the result is that a Sociopath or Psychopath simply does that which they think is better for themselves and they can get away with (they care about the consequences for themselves, not for others), with absolutely no consideration for how that makes others feel, hence harm or even death of others is fine since that has the same emotional resonance for them as breaking an inanimate object.

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      Now that there’s reporting that the Biden admin explicitly okayed the aid worker strikes (which is a war crime) I’m not sure that’s true. I honestly don’t know which side is more evil at this point. At least when W killed a million Iraqis it wasn’t EXPLICITLY a genocide for lebensraum. Genocide Joe is probably the worst president of my lifetime, and I’ve seen some GEMS. Same way I promised during Iraq I would NEVER vote GOP because they are EVIL, I have now sworn off voting DNC, because they are also EVIL and I don’t believe in accepting “the lesser of two evils” especially when the “lesser” evil are purveyors of genocide and a level of war crimes we haven’t seen since Nixon was funding the Cambodian ethno-communists.

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        Now that there’s reporting that the Biden admin explicitly okayed the aid worker strikes

        citation requested.

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          He’d need to genocide 200k or whatever the real death count is people, burning children alive, while institutionalizing rape, torture, and the use of starvation as a weapon of war. And murder several US citizens. And aid workers. And UN peacekeepers.

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        I don’t believe in accepting “the lesser of two evils”

        I’ve been seeing this argument alot this electing cycle. Can you provide an example of a politician that has done committed or supported an action that could be considered “evil”?

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            Do you think that Trump or the Republicans will halt military support to Isreal?

            You also have not answered my question. Are you simply not voting because all politicians are just various degrees of evil and voting for any of them will be “accepting ‘the lesser of two evils’”?

            I am genuinely interested in knowing the point of that statement. Is it to encourage people not to vote?

            Are their any other topics that you apply this mentality to or is it just this election?

            Edit: To answer your question, no, I do not support genocide. I do however believe in choosing the lesser of two evils when there are no better alternatives.

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              If you advocate supporting Harris, you advocate for genocide.

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              I am unwilling to accept genocide as the “lesser” evil. Sorry. Unlike Biden’s support for Israel, my support for the DNC actually has red lines.

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                No need to apologize. You do what you think is best.

                Is your intent to not vote or do you have a candidate that you believe will halt the military support of Isreal?

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                  I don’t think either will, I think Trump would keep Bibi on a shorter leash though just via emasculation shit. Like if a news source got Trump on record going “Netanyahu won’t do X” and he did, Trump would be piiiiiised, but at the same time, I know Epstein was a Mossad operative and Trump was regionally known here around NYC to be into the Klub Kids and like them young, so they probably have blackmail… I am just not willing to do any act materially furthering an act of terrorism,which is a crime

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      Americans only care about the slaughter of innocents when CNN tells them to. Y’all murdered my people indiscriminately, and to this day you call us slurs and moralize to the world about not having wars

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      I know that the hold that Israel (and the military industrial complex) has on both major political parties is money, Money, MONEY.

      The Israeli lobby is the American lobby. Israel is useful to US’ state and capitalist domination of the region and the US backs it to the hilt. It is not just that there are moneyed PACs, though there are. It is also that the entire state imperial apparatus recognizes that Israel is a tool against pan-Arabism, that it is important for maintaining the petrodollar, that it helps suppress Iran in its sovereign development. And US business interests are closely tied to those of Israel, so Israel’s loss is also their loss (and thanks to the resistance, they are feeling those losses right now!).

      But there has got to be a breaking point.

      There is no inherent moral breaking point. The US and its proxies will commit genocide unimpinged without dedicated efforts against them.

      The American people are miseducated and racist, they cannot oppose this simply because it is wrong, they must first overcome the barriers of their miseducation and their chauvinism. They must understand what has been done to Palestine and they must consider Palestinians to be fellow people deserving of just as much as themselves and their neighbors. This is an effort that requires dedicated work and organization in left organizations, commitment to work over years and years.

      The greatest forces of resistance are everywhere else. They are the forces of the al-Aqsa flood, the greater resistance forces, of Yemeni solidarity against genocide (they have faced their own by American proxies and Americans aren’t even aware of it), the countries standing increasingly in solidarity with Palestine and the resistance and pushing back against the narratives of the gemociders.

      I mean, I will still vote for Harris, because I’m not stupid.

      You should take a look at yourself if you think there should be a breaking point for supporting genocide. You are complicit, announcing your support for one of the genociders! Why aren’t you working against the genocide? Doing nothing would be better than offering them free support.

      I know the alternative is far worse.

      Normalizing support for genocide is why the political class can genocide without fear of repercussions. What are you going to do, not vote for them? Obviously not, you are still entrapped by their false logic into being their loyal sheepdog. Of course anyone that can understand politics beyond a 1-month time frame can see that this is self-defeating logic, and, per your own rhetoric, is something you should consider snapping out of when faced with supporting those that burn refugee children alive in their tents.

      But I’d rather not have innocent blood on my hands after I fill out that ballot.

      Then don’t vote for genociders, let alone sheepdog for others to do the same, and do something actually politically helpful. Become educated and join organizations that have had solidarity with Palestine from day 1.

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        Not voting does nothing to fix this issue. If you want to do something about it then do, but still vote.

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          Voting for genociders is a pro-genocidal. It is being complicit.

          I agree that simply not being complicit in genocide is a very low bar to clear. It is a bar that liberals will loudly and proudly fail to clear while insulting the people telling them to do otherwise. Some will become aware of the reality before doing so, some after, but only if it is something they hear about.

          One should of course do material work against genocide but this is uncommon among those who are trying to sheepdog for the genociders. They already believe politics is just being a loyal sheep.

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        Then don’t vote for genociders, let alone sheepdog for others to do the same, and do something actually politically helpful. Become educated and join organizations that have had solidarity with Palestine from day 1.

        Something politically helpful like letting Trump get elected and go full genocide against Israel, migrants, and most likely a portion of the US. Yeah, that will be very politically helpful compared to voting against Trump.

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          Instead of trying to justify supporting “lesser evil” genocide, you should oppose genocide. If you fail to do that, you are complicit.

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        We do if we pay taxes. Our tax money is going to funding a genocide whether we like it or not. But we can also help change the current administration’s policies and be part of the resistance, whether small or large, both help.

        https://www.ceasefirenow.org/

        https://ceasefiretoday.com/

        https://uscpr.org/take-action/

        History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

        • “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963
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        You’re correct, we do. We all assist the operation of this war machine. It may not be in our control, but that does not nullify it. We bloody our hands to live instead of choosing to die, and we are all culpable to an extent for it. Some more than others, though.

        People in all societies have to ignore a multitude of moral contradictions in order to live normal lives. That is the manufactured consent all states impose upon their people.

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      Rewarding bad behavior is going to get you more bad behavior.

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        Protest votes are fucking stupid. They accomplish nothing. I will vote to keep trump out of office. Harris is the best choice to keep him out. End of discussion.

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          Protest votes are fucking stupid. They accomplish nothing. I will vote to keep trump out of office.

          So you are voting in protest to Trump? :D Because that’s literally what you described.

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            I DON’T HAVE A CHOICE!!!

            The options are: genocide or genocide.

            Voting anything other than Harris is STILL A VOTE FOR GENOCIDE.

            Refusing to vote for Harris will not stop the genocide.

            Refusing to vote at all will not stop the genocide.

            WE ARE FUCKING BACKED INTO A CORNER.

            Sorry, I’ve got to be pragmatic here. I hate it, but protest votes are fucking stupid in this system.

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                Right? Why should the U.S. continue existing if it’s an unstoppable genocidal state?

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              You can chose to dip you hands in the blood of thousands of dead children by activelly rewarding a candidate who is enabling their murder, or you can chose not to.

              Given the lack of Democracy in the American system, that means that you either participate hence end up with blood on your hands no matter which of the two electable candidates you vote for or do not participate.The choices of others who do participate are irrelevant for that decision.

              Justifying your choice of supporting a enabler of child murder candidate because others might chose the candidate you dislike the most and hence makes you fear for yourself, is not the high moral standpoint you seem to think it is.

              Absolutely, it’s a though choice. However this preaching you and those like you are doing about “Not voting is a vote for Trump” is not done from the top of a Moral High Horse, it’s from the top of the pile of the bloody bones of tens of thousands of murdered children which is still growing, and driven by at best selfish self-preservation not any kind of selfless moral principle.

              So spare us the bullshit.

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          If you were voting ***against ***something, which is the only thing Democrats do, you are casting a protest vote. And you were right they are fucking stupid.

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    Time is running for Harris to break with Biden ON ANYTHING. You saw a jump in poll numbers between Biden and Harris because people thought she would be different. Every interview she gives saying “I am the status quo” pushes her numbers back to Biden.

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    I have decided based on your post history that you are a troll, a Trump supporter, and are doing everything possible to spread FUD with no actual reasonable discourse.

    You are now blocked. Maybe stop wasting so much effort going against someone and start working to find a viable option for the next election — if indeed you’re not a troll and a MAGA moron.

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      You should look at my post history a little harder. I have posted a lot on Palestine, and very few have centered on Harris. I consider the election choices very painful for anyone who wants to keep Trump out while not supporting an administration which is clearly collaborating in a genocide with Israel. Most likely I will hold my nose and vote for Harris, but I’m not sure yet. If I don’t, I would be voting for Jill Stein.

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      When the election is over, what are centrists going to do when they can’t pretend that anyone who doesn’t support genocide is a trumper?

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        Call them antisemitic like they did with the antiwar protests. And they’ll have all the centrist press reinforcing it so they’ll never need to consider whether there’s any deeper issue they should be thinking about.

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          If you’re actively trying to steer people away from voting for the lesser of two evils,

          I’m not. I’ve never said the people should vote for anyone other than Harris. If Harris abandons her support for genocide, how many centrists do you think will immediately switch to Trump?

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        Ha, that is not how it will go. Without Trump there will be no existential threat to american democracy to leverage and I’ll be surprised if the media does not go dark on it. When people, like yourself try to rally you’ll find half the support you depend on was only there because it was election time and the rest will be deaf ears because everyone else would like to go back to their normal lives.

        Not saying it’s a good thing just the only thing keeping the discussion alive is how much it hurts the dems. It’s clearly an attack vector that had been amplified and you thinking your moral stance is what props it up is hubris.

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          I dunno. Why is all criticism of Harris/Biden supporting genocide met with “Yeah?! Whatabout Trump?! You want Trump to win?”

          Because that’s what centrists do when they get criticism about the only policy centrists won’t immediately abandon at the slightest pressure.

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            I can only speak for myself. If the polls are any accurate indication, my fear of Christian Nationalism overthrowing democracy in the United States may soon be realized. They appear neck and neck, so anything that shits on Kamala, I feel like it needs to fall on Trump’s head too. After the election, I can shit on Kamala’s genocidal dreams without needing to invoke Trump.

            The article is about costing her the election on the genocide issue, which is fucked up because voting her down only puts the other pro-genocide in, plus the Christian Nationalists.

            If it matters, I’m not a centrist.

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              If Kamala loses, Trump wins. Do you want Kamala or Trump to win.

              Kamala. When she wins, what will be your new excuse to forbid all criticism of the genocide?

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    It’s a race to the end of the month. Can we reach voting day while keeping a lid on discontent with the genocide?

    They’re pretty clearly locked in on that. What you might see is a declaration a couple days before if her team figures they’re losing and they need a desperate play.

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    Probably get hate for this around here, but it would be pants-on-head retarded for a political candidate to propose a major policy shift 3-weeks before a national election.