• Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 month ago

    Biden tried just slowing weapon shipments earlier on and Rs and some Ds rammed a bill through saying nope, no slowdowns on these shipments allowed.

    When you have a racist right-wing party, and a right-wing party that supports killing innocents, I am not as enthused to vote as I would be if there were a clear choice between them.

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      1 month ago

      It’s more like a racist right-wing party that supports killing innocents, and a right-wing party that supports killing innocents.

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        1 month ago

        You’re right, I just thought “racist” implied “supports killing”, as I am aware of the history and practice of racism.

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          You said there is no clear choice between. A party that supports killing innocents and racism. And a party that supports killing innocents. It’s not hard math.

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            Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t there more dead on the Gaza side? What’s the math of that?

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          I mean, if both are killing innocents, but one is killing innocents on top of being racist, it’s pretty obvious that the racist one is worse. A kindergartener could check that math.

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              1 month ago

              That’s what this entire post is about. You’re accomplishing jack shit by not voting.

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                Wrong, supporting criminals with blood on their hands is evil and make things worst. If the red and blue party start to lose votes they have to go in damage mode and actually change their policies to get their votes back. As long as people support and vote for them they don’t really have to change anything, they cycle in power.

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                  1 month ago

                  This is WHAT THE POST IS ABOUT. Putting Trump in office to try to influence the Dems is incredibly stupid and we’ve been responding to this tripe ALL YEAR already. Trump will be worse on Palestine, Ukraine, actively seek to harm LGBT people as well as Central/Southern American immigrants, and be much worse on tons of issues like labor laws, financial regulations, the environment, on and on. So, no. What you’re proposing is a naive and clueless idea.

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                    1 month ago

                    The only naive and clueless idea is supporting your government while its fueling a genocide where kids are being murdered daily

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            It’s interesting how you have to resort to being dismissive when I say that I don’t like seeing innocents killed.

            You say you’re voting for ‘harm reduction’. But, factually, supporting Israel is increasing harm, not reducing it. You might be upset with me because you’re rationalising painful reality.

            I have no choice, due to autism, but to accept reality for what it is. And it’s not nice, because living in a world where it is politically expedient to support killing innocent people sucks. I want nothing to do with it, and I would swap with someone in Palestine so that I could die, instead.