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[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (38 children)

Ah yes, opposing genocide is a radical far-left position. Of course.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sadly in American politics it is, if you support anti-imperialism or the end of capitalism tyranny that makes you a radical leftist (according to the shit libs). I say we wear that as a bage of honor, I am a proud radical leftist.

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah I'm perfectly fine with not being on the same side as people openly embracing Dick Cheney and weird people can't figure out how being active in genocide is bad.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (13 children)

"I'm not going to support Dick Cheney, so I'm going to help the guy even Dick Cheney thinks takes things too far."

And disingenuous people "can't figure out" how not stopping the current weapons sales is still better than giving Israel even more and better weapons and telling them to wipe the place out.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 79 points 2 days ago (8 children)
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[–] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 150 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (96 children)

This is extremely misleading. Fuck Trump 10000 times and kamala is the only sane choice, but stop trying to paint over reality to try and make her look like she's not just a lesser evil.

She didn't just "not promise to solve 1000 year conflict" (which the genocide has been going on for the last 75 years),

she did promise to continue funding genocide with American taxpayer dollars. (Of which the US has been giving and average of $5 billion in tax dollars and weapons to Isreal per year for the last 75 years, since they first invaded Palestine).

We are voting for her because she is the lesser evil. We don't have to be happy about it or stop criticizing her on her bad policies.

Basically: Vote for Harris, but also fuck her for vowing to continue funding genocide. Trump would also keep funding genocide, and he'd also destroy what's left of the west, on top of every other obvious reason he should never be in power again (and never should have been).

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (1 children)

OP consistently makes posts that only divide the Dem base.

Considering they started out with AI posts lying about early voting, I guess it's an improvement?

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 5 points 1 day ago

Again. I think sometimes the division is purposeful. Say some bullshit that's meant to infuriate the left pretending to be the Democrats because they don't even care to hide their bad takes anyways and split the base that can't be bothered to try to win even more.

But that's probably giving to much credit and its just Democrats actually with bad takes hoping to stick to the center and blame everyone else for the center not actually being that popular.

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[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 1 day ago (5 children)

the israeli declaration of independence was 76 years ago

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[–] emmy67@lemmy.world 64 points 2 days ago (13 children)

Nobody expects Kamala to solve it. They do expect her to stop supporting genocide.

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[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How tf does one "excerpt pressure?"

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 2 days ago (72 children)
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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 34 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Kamala might fund genocide in Israel. But Trump will fund genocide in Israel, and genocide here.

We can be ideologically pure when we don’t have fascists at the doorstep. Thousands of children just FUCKING VANISHED during Trumps term. What’s going to happen during his second? Texas was (is?) putting barbed wire in the river on the fucking border. Trump will give free rein to murderous politicians (Texas is also about to execute another innocent man btw). People are going to die here.

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[–] banner80@fedia.io 61 points 2 days ago (82 children)

The comment section for this type of posts is always such a shit show.

This is essentially saying 2 things:

1 - It's insane that some here seem to think that to remain "independent" of politics you can abstain or vote third party to show your discontent for how slowly the Dems deal with Natenyahu's BS. Your abstain or 3rd party vote does nothing to "move the Dems to the left" when in reality you are removing them from power to give it to Trump, who has already promised to triple down on helping Netanyahu achieve whatever he wants.

The election is happening right now. There's no time and space to negotiate new candidates or parties. It's either the disappointing Dems, or the christo-fascist GOP. The time for standing on principle was 3 years ago, or next year at the start of the new cycle. Today is about pragmatism - how close we can get to the desired outcome, and which of these parties is more interested in listening to your position moving forward. It should be abundantly clear that Harris is by a huge margin the better choice for your desired outcomes.

2 - The Israel operation in Gaza, that we all want to stop, is not something that can be just ended with the click of a button. A bunch of actors in that region are hell bent on killing each other, like when Hamas did genocide on Israel last year, and now we have multiple state actors moving armies against each other. The brain-dead premise that somehow Democrats "want genocide" makes it impossible to have a serious conversation.

If you don't vote for Harris over a mess in the Middle East that we didn't directly create and are not directly responsible for, and that the Biden administration is trying to solve even if it's too slow for your taste; and instead you act in favor of helping Trump who will absolutely empower Netanyahu to do whatever he wants, then not only are you directly voting against your own interests, but you are engaging in a level of dumb-fuckery of supreme proportions. And fucking all of us over hard while at it.

In short: By opposing Harris right at the finish line of the election cycle, you are going to inflict Trump's dictator regime and the runaway christo-fascist GOP on the entire planet, because you are dissatisfied with how mediocre Dems have been at trying to stop Israel. You think this makes you virtuous. It does not.

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