• HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If you refuse to vote for someone because you don’t like literally 100% of their platform, you’ll never cast another vote in your life.

    Even if I supported 99% of Harris’s agenda, if the remaining 1% is genocide, that’s gonna be a problem for me.

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      There are two possible outcomes in this election. Neither are good for Gaza, but one is worse. Voting third party (if you’d normally vote democrat) is indirectly supporting Trump, who is the worse of the two options for Gaza.

      Voting 3rd party to try and make a point is not helping the situation.

      If you want to actually make a difference, get out there and protest, write letters to politicians, make phone calls - make sure they know what you want. People voting 3rd party doesn’t do any good if they don’t know why those people are voting 3rd party.

      They could look back on this in 4 years, see a lot of third party voters, and assume it’s because Harris isn’t white, or because she’s a woman, or because of any number of other reasons. The only way they’ll know what your opinion is on this matter is if you tell them.

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        I wouldn’t even say it’s “indirect” anymore. These people know exactly what they are doing, and the blood of millions of Palestinians will be on their hands if Harris loses.

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        2 months ago

        Writing letters to politicians and making phone calls isn’t going to do shit, they only answer the money and we don’t have it.

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            Well, you have to vote for Harris, protests are ineffective, as is posting on lemmy.

            Ever notice that the only option is always stfu?

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              Protests have been getting a ton of media attention. I wouldn’t say they’re ineffective at all. I’d say they’re the most effective thing you could be doing.

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                Yeah, just look at how that needle has moved from “unconditional support for genocide” to “unconditional support for genocide.”

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                  It’s getting it in the public eye, though. That’s something. Politicians would much rather it was just swept under the rug, and the high-profile protests are making sure that doesn’t happen.

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                    It may be getting in the public eye, but when it’s pointed out to liberals, they start chanting things like four more years or USA USA.

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                    It’s getting it in the public eye, though. That’s something.

                    It’s worthless. Just like all the platitudes about ceasefires. If we keep selling them weapons, they’ll keep genociding. And that’s the entire goddamned idea.

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      You’re a single-issue voter. That’s fine. But some of us aren’t.

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          Your bad faith argument will not deter me. You are right, there are other things to worry about. I fear for the women in my life that may no longer have access to the reproductive health care they deserve. I fear for my LGBT friends who may no longer have the rights they deserve. I’ll easily turn a blind eye to something happening a half a world away so the people nearest and dearest to me can continue to exist. I hope for the safety of Palestinians - but I will not cut off my nose to spite my face.

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            Your bad faith argument

            So you can’t even accept that there are real people who genuinely care about the Gazans.

            That says a lot about you and the company you keep. (And, to be fair, the entire white supremacist culture of the United States.)

            I’ll easily turn a blind eye to something happening a half a world away

            I would bet dollars to dimes that your tune would be different if it were a white country being genocided.

            You would never be this unconcerned about Ukraine.

            so the people nearest and dearest to me can continue to exist.

            The people near you are not in any of danger of being deliberately wiped out by American bombs. The people in Gaza are.

            (But they’re brown people, so I understand why it’s hard for you to feel concerned.)

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              Yikes. I’m disengaging now. You’ve baselessly called me a white supremacist, insulted the company in which I keep, put words in my mouth, and downplayed very real threats because the threat isn’t a bomb. It’s clear you can’t be communicated with. See you in another life!

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                You’ve baselessly called me a white supremacist

                I’m saying you think it’s normal to be unconcerned about brown people being genocided because you’ve grown up in a white supremacist culture which continues to portray non-Western cultures as primitive savages who ought to be subordinated by white people, with force if necessary.

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      Voting for Trump or not voting is a direct threat to the very existence of the Palestinian people. You think you’re making an ethics statement when in reality you’re just ensuring that Netanyahu can finish the job unmolested.

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        you’re just ensuring that Netanyahu can finish the job unmolested

        Biden is already giving Netanyahu everything Netanyahu needs to exterminate the Gazans, and I don’t really think it matters if Biden molests Netanyahu while he does it.

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          If Trump wins, you will find out very fast what the difference between him and Biden is with respect to Isreal/Palestine. There are two possible outcomes in November, and one of them will lead to the absolute extermination of the Palestinian people. If you vote for Trump or you do not vote, you are directly complicit in this.

          But frankly, I don’t believe you that you give a shit about Palestinian people. So I’m not going to bother continuing with this.

          I don’t know what happened, but Blahaj used to be a good instance. Now it’s just full if dumbass tankies with no grasp of nuance making other progressives look bad.