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Trump wants to commit genocide against brown people.
Trump wants to commit genocide against queer people.
Trump would be happy to let Israel continue their genocide against Palestinians.
But don't vote for "Genocide Joe!"
Someone this morning suggested voting for Cenk Uygur. Who was born in Turkey from Turkish parents. He isn't even eligible to be president. That'll sure stop any one of those three genocides.
If you can't stop ALL evil, why bother stopping any of it?
If you can't reduce ALL harm, why bother reducing any of it?
I wonder how some people muster the motivation to get up in the mornings with their way of thinking.
Those people don't actually have a reason to get up in the morning, and Trump makes them believe that's because of Dems.
I find it incredible how Trump could make anyone believe anything. They have to be so deep in an alternate world.
I like listening to YT (most of the time - they keep harping on Gaza so much lately and I've started skipping through some of those. I get that it's a big deal, but it's been 100% of the content for recent shows. I also don't like it much when Cenk sometimes gets so emotional that he's cutting off Ana as well. ) but I don't really understand what Cenk's thing is with running. He's explained it multiple times and it still doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
But don’t vote for “Genocide Joe!”
I feel like a large part of this is blaming the voter for something they didn't ask for.
Democrats: LA LA LA! I'm not Listening, vote for Biden or lose your democracy.
Democrats: La La La! I'm not listening, vote for Biden or lose your democracy! Also we're going to smuggle some weapons for Israel free of charge!
Someone this morning suggested voting for Cenk Uygur.
He's not going to win, but a shocking concept of where a political rival aligns with your ideals and you "Want" to vote for him.
Versus a candidate that abandons those ideals and blames/gaslights you for not supporting their off moral behavior.
Who should I vote for to stop Trump from implementing those genocides? Give me a name please. Show me the likelihood of them winning.
Standing up for a candidate that aligns with your wants/needs? 0.000000000000000000000000000000001% chance
Letting genocides slide with no repercussions: 0%
You appear to have not read my post and just posted something unrelated.
I will ask you again:
Who should I vote for to stop Trump from implementing those genocides? Give me a name please. Show me the likelihood of them winning.
I do apologize, I probably should have added more context between my posts.
A candidate like Cenk Uygur. 0.000000000000000000000000000000001% of preventing a genocide
Letting genocides slide with no repercussions: 0% of preventing another genocide.
Ah, I see, you either don't understand math or don't understand the constitution.
Cenk cannot be president. He was not born in the United States. His parents weren't even citizens. He has a 0% chance of being able to stop a genocide. Not a 0 with a decimal point, a bunch of other zeroes and then a 1. 0. Zero. Goose egg. Nothing. Nada.
You might as well vote for Prince Harry.
He's not going to win, but a shocking concept of where a political rival aligns with your ideals and you "Want" to vote for him.
Versus a candidate that abandons those ideals and blames/gaslights you for not supporting their off moral behavior.
Your words:
A candidate like Cenk Uygur. 0.000000000000000000000000000000001% of preventing a genocide
Also, my words:
Who should I vote for to stop Trump from implementing those genocides? Give me a name please. Show me the likelihood of them winning.
So you neither did that nor were accurate about his ability to be elected and prevent genocide because, again, he can't be elected.
So unless you're trying to claim that voting for someone who can't get elected will somehow stop Trump... otherwise, again, tell me who to vote for who will stop Trump from implementing the genocides he and his people have already announced their intentions to implement.
I feel like we are arguing semantics when we say stuff like Republican genocide vs Democrat genocide and asking which one is worse. When obviously the answer is both are wrong and counter productive to a growing society.
So..... what are democrats going to do about it?
Because it seems republicans have made their minds up.
I feel like we are arguing semantics when we say stuff like Republican genocide vs Democrat genocide and asking which one is worse.
This is what I said:
Trump wants to commit genocide against brown people.
Trump wants to commit genocide against queer people.
Trump would be happy to let Israel continue their genocide against Palestinians.
I'm not asking which one is worse, I'm saying there will be three under Trump.
Do you really think Biden plans to cleanse the U.S. of brown people and queer people? Or is it not genocide when it's queer people and the wrong kind of brown people?
How do you make peace with one genocide? I don't mean this as a 'gotcha' question, but it's literally a thing I don't know how to handle. Thanks.
I’m not asking which one is worse, I’m saying there will be three under Trump.
Sounds like it will be a real blood bath, what are democrats going to do about it?
Because for me it's sounds pretty simple
Cease fire in Gaza
Resume food aid into Gaza
Really simple and quite easy to do. But if they don't want to do that.... they can always....
Try someone besides Biden
Push economic policies that help Americans
But if they really didn't want to do that and wanted to lose an election, all they have to do is the same thing they are right now.
Do you really think Biden plans to cleanse the U.S. of brown people and queer people? Or is it not genocide when it’s queer people and the wrong kind of brown people?
People are people whether they live in the US or not. I am not going to put one on a balance over the other.
But I am not going to agree with one flavor of genocide over the other, just because Biden's is fruit punch flavored.
So... what are democrats going to do about it, because the ball is in their court.
Let me give you a little dose of realism.
We are long past the point where voting in a presidential election can disrupt the status quo.
Under the current circumstances, voting in the presidential can never be anything more than harm reduction. There are only 3 options when it comes to voting:
Vote for Trump and accelerate the US decline to neofascism.
Throw away your vote on a 3rd party candidate who will never - and could never - win, likely contributing to the decline since conservatives are considerably less likely to vote 3rd party.
Vote for Biden to stave off the decline as much as possible while pursuing other means of affecting change.
Even if a large enough number voted 3rd party to make Democrats take notice, the Democrats are not going to change in any meaningful way. The best they will give us is more of the same, paying lip service to leftist ideas while compromising with corporations and the right at every possible opportunity.
If you want things to change in this country you need to protest, engage in direct action and mutual aid, unionize, and do everything you can think of to create and grow alternative institutions of power.
Edit to include voting in primaries and voting local if you live in an area where that could possibly help.
How can you be more aggressive than locking kids in cages? Just straight up murdering them?
Drowning them with barbed wire is the cool new thing
Please stop giving them ideas
He's somehow implemented more aggressive border control without even being president. He gives orders and republican reps obey anyway.
He's implemented nothing.
Bidens border policy is pretty much the same as his admins was- just more put together, reasonable, and less divisive. Trump's bs hasn't changed how the us is handling immigration.
The problem with my the immigration issue is that both parties can campaign on it. If it's fixed they can't. Which is exactly the reason the Republicants reneged on the deal they wanted. It was actually going to make a meaningful difference.
other countries are “not sending their finest”
Yeah, that's kinda true now, only insane would like to live in the US in this economy.
Jokes aside, a few people around me would at least think about it.
Hopefully he will deport his entire family