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Opposing The Gaza Genocide While Supporting Biden Is A Dishonest, Nonsensical Position
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this post was submitted on 29 Apr 2024
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No, there are other choices, people have just been conditioned not to vote for them.
May I remind you that the US went through multiple 2-party systems, the current one could be replaced.
My dude, not a single one of the people that has sufficient support right now in the US supports the Palestinian people to the degree I would prefer. All of them would support the Israeli genocide to one degree or another. Trump would be all gas no brakes, and would be pushing Netanyahu to nuke Gaza, and throw all the Palestinians in the West Bank into death camps. Kennedy wouldn't be a lot better. Biden is at least trying to slow Netanyahu's roll a little, even if he's still turning over funding that's been appropriated by congress (which he's both legally obligated to do, and also personally supports).
Palestine has no allies that would support cutting off all aid for Israel that would even be able to win 1% of the vote in the US. That's just the way it is, and it sucks.
On the domestic front, both Trump and Kennedy would be worse for the American people by every single metric, except for the white christian nationalist metric.
So people in the US have a choice. They can vote for the least bad candidate, and hope to minimize the damage as much as possible. Or they can not vote, and claim that they have clean hands when Trump accelerates the genocide, and starts a few new ones. Of course, not voting for the least bad candidate is effectively identical to voting for the worse candidate, but hey, as just don't tell your neighbor that you're the reason that their trans kid couldn't get medical care and ended up committing suicide.