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[–] [email protected] -3 points 16 hours ago (8 children)

I'm not American and you didn't answer my question.

If pro-palestinian one issue voters lost Kamala the election, why didn't she appease them? Why are the voters to blame and not the democrats?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Im an Israeli anarchist, but I'm still going to try my best at explaining.

American liberals won't ever appease leftists, or minorities, because they expect subservience and loyalty for nothing in return. In so doing they play right into the fascists' hands, trying to serve right wingers who already made their minds up in voting for a fascist.

It is very likely not only more leftists but more Muslim and arabic people would've voted for dems if it weren't for dems insisting that kamala should keep supporting israel and that criticism is amount to betrayal.

As much as i despise electoralism, being an anarchist and all, it's very simple to understand how and why this happened even from an electoralist perspective, makes one think maybe american liberals just don't want to understand.

And before anyone says I'm talking out of my ass about american libs, as if i don't know them because I don't live in the states: Know that they walk and talk just the same as israeli liberals, and these empty platitudes and threats of being a traitor are the same as i get at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Because in the coalition of Democratic voters and donors, there are also those who unconditionally support Israel, and they outnumber those who support the Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Answers to your comment are hilarious, these people deserve Trump but they don't even realise this. Rats complaining about cockroaches.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Because they shouldn't have beeded to be convinced. Trump was obviously the worse choice for Palestine. The most basic realpolitik shouldve told them to hold their nose. They are to blame for putting their ideals over the lives of everyone around them and even those they want to save.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It wasn't the one issue, it was just the one that stuck with people who needed an excuse to not show up and vote for a woman.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

I think i can copy paste this comment somewhere on a 2016 thread about Hilary and it would make just as much sense.

How about you tell this to someone who isn't white, or better yet, someone who has family affected by the situation in gaza.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

That’s an excellent question. The Harris campaign decided to not let Palestinians speak at the DNC. The Uncommitted movement offered to endorse her but the staff refused to let any Palestinian Americans do so on camera, even with pre-vetted remarks. It’s mystifying and one of the major blunders of the Harris campaign.

Harris seemed hyper focused on avoiding any criticism by Trump or Republicans. Hence she wouldn’t meet with Palestinian-Americans and avoided all the Muslim voters in Pennsylvania who were trying to meet with her. She was working so hard to get Republicans to flip and support her, which is why she did a rally with Liz Cheney and talked about how much she’d help Israel, and decided the Arab-American and Muslim-American votes were expendable if it meant getting more Republicans.

Hillary tried the same strategy in 2016, and it failed badly. Throwing one of the most loyal democratic voting blocs under the bus to get Republicans to flip for them, has been a strategy of 2 of the last 3 elections (Biden promised to undo the Muslim ban but nothing else, so I don’t know if that counts) and they keep repeating this playbook with the same results. I fear that in 2028 they won’t even try to get our votes again and will try to cozy up to Trump’s Muslim ban in hopes that Republicans flip to democrat once again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

Harris seemed hyper focused on avoiding any criticism by Trump or Republicans.

Compare that with, "They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred." That line came from some four-term-President loser.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They answered your question perfectly.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 13 hours ago

I'm not American

then please shut the fuck up.