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    12 days ago

    Trump = Israel does what it wants, no guilt felt

    Harris = Israel does what it wants, guilt felt

    That is literally it. I’m sure she will call for a ceasefire. I think she even already has. The problem is she won’t force the issue (by stopping weapons shipments) and she won’t change Biden’s overall policy. She is in favour of continuing the genocide so long as it keeps Israel happy. That’s it. She would never say that but that is what’s happening.

    The fact that she’s still much better than Trump is an indictment of the American political landscape.



  • “If you’re lucky, in four years… Well maybe 8… we can have a candidate that doesn’t bomb kids, as a treat. But only if you fall in line now and stop reminding us that voting for the lesser evil is still voting for evil.”

    The next candidate will be basically the same and you know it. The DNC have no incentive to change anything and people say this bullshit about “voting centrist Dem now and build local support for a good candidate later” all the time and it never happens. That’s what they said last time and look where we are again.

    Yes vote for Harris. NO to “if you don’t like my shitty candidate you must secretly be a fascist”










  • I remember watching the news interviews at the time, and some of the people who voted to Exit said they didn’t really want to Exit they just wanted to put out a protest vote against Corbyn.

    You are literally talking out of your arse. “Some” people may have been protesting Corbyn… not saying much?.. about it. But Cameron was the face of remain. He was the logical target for a protest vote. And if you really did watch the interviews around the time of Brexit and especially the exit polls after the election you would know that most people said some nonsense about “sovereignty” but the next most common and incredibly obvious reason was immigration. The idea that is was primarily or even substantially about Corbyn is completely ludicrous.

    So go ahead and single issue vote on something that will get you more of what you don’t want.

    1. I am actually British. 2. I would vote for Harris and have literally said as much throughout this conversation.

    I am just saying I understand their perspective and pointing out that this “Trump is worse” response completely ignores the overwhelming moral case for opposing a genocide. It is pathetic as a response to what people are saying. It’s myopically election focused at a time when people are dying with full US backing.

    Yes, Clinton was a shitty candidate who I predicted losing because everyone hates her so much… but in the end there were a lot of people who are now worse off because they decided it would be better to vote for Stein.

    So you predicted she would lose, and many other people did, and the DNC did not listen. Then some people didn’t see the gravity of the situation and made bad voting decisions, absolutely. But they are just random people who may be more engaged with work and paying their bills than they are with making unintuitive voting decisions. Partially their fault, mainly the dems fault


  • Yeah but when the single issue is genocide? I don’t know, I can understand the moral argument that is always wrong to support that. I can understand not wanting your tax dollars to pay for the death and destruction we’ve been watching for the past year.

    I understand your point, don’t agree with single issue voting in most cases and I also wouldn’t vote third party or encourage anyone to do so BUT I can see the point and lecturing people about Trump does nothing whatsoever to address it.

    Look at Brexit: most of those were protest votes against Labour, not actual votes for Brexit.

    Lol I can only assume you are not British. Protesting Labour in the 6th year of a conservative government for… what exactly? There are a lot of stupid things that led to the Brexit vote but this is not one of them.

    Every pregnant woman in the US is at higher risk now because of those protest votes.

    No. Because the democrats did not win over enough voters to take the presidency. They ran a candidate people didn’t like that much and lost. That is on THEM.