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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Go ahead and feel morally superior as your protest vote enables someone way worse to hurt way more people. All the women dying of ectopic pregnancies or sepsis from stillbirths they cannot abort are on you. The GOP will let Russia have Ukraine where they will rape and murder anyone who resists, and they will unconditionally increase funding for Israel's genocidal land grab.

And you will think, "that's not my fault, I voted for the not evil one."

But that's not true, because you could have voted for the person who is willing to negotiate on those things, but you chose to feel better about yourself instead of actually help anyone.

[–] index -1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Supporting and voting a party complicit in a genocide is not just a "feeling". Dozens of kids are being murdered daily in gaza, this is already the worst scenario.

All the women dying of ectopic pregnancies or sepsis from stillbirths they cannot abort are on you.

Wrong, these are on people voting for the red and blue party which for a century have been cycling in power promoting the same authoritarian politics.

The GOP will let Russia have Ukraine where they will rape and murder anyone who resists

I encourage you to read about the cold war and check how many military bases the us has spread all over the world. I also encourage you to read about ukraine government corruption and their authoritarian measures and lastly i encourage you to check who usa and russia are in partnership with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

And if Trump wins because of your "morally superior" choice you'll have only succeeded in helping Israel exterminate them faster. There will not be any discussions about whether to pause or halt shipments of arms.

[–] index 2 points 5 months ago

If the red and blue party wins again the genocide goes on. The alternative is something else not one of these two

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