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[–] [email protected] 153 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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).

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months 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?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago

Right wing morons and shills can't exactly base their arguments on how much better Republicans are, so they come at it sideways with this bullshit.

Well, jokes on them because "the left" isn't made up of complete morons like they have in the MAGA movement. Despite neoliberal whining to the contrary, the left has been consistently the most reliable voting demographic the Democrats have, and that's despite the fact that the establishment shits on us at every opportunity.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (33 children)
[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least some, like Ralph Nader, regretted it. Now we have those actively seeking to spoil the vote.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The tragic thing about Nader was his activism basically proved to General Motors and later large American corporations in general that political engagement and and public opinion was vital. The corpos learned to fight grass roots activism with astro-turf until they were just as skilled as Nader's acolytes, only with orders of magnitude more resources.

Every time I see an Oil company do a commercial about their commitment to the environment I think of Ralph.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (38 children)

What does third parties have to do with lifelong Dem voters wanting the Dem candidate to side with the Dem voting base on basic parts of the party platform like:

  1. No fracking

  2. Better healthcare

  3. Climate change is real and producing less fossil fuels is a good thing

What you're doing is insisting if you're not 100% loyal to the candidate with a D by their name you really have an R.

That's the same fucking shit Republicans went thru and it ended up with trump.

Why the fuck do you want to follow down the path of "never criticize the party, and always vote for them".

Please explain to the class why this time it will work out good for the party that takes that path.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 months ago (8 children)
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[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (18 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (7 children)

What 1000 year conflict? The nakba was less than a century ago. Plus "please stop giving 2000 pound bombs to Israel to commit a genocide with" is a very far cry from "please end the Israeli apartheid state".

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago (26 children)

"1000 year old conflict" is already Zionist propaganda.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago (43 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (5 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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Stop killing Palestinians is such a far left position man. I can't even. Americans are effing weird.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (25 children)

First and foremost, this isn't a 1000 year war. It's a bit over 100 years at most. The colonization of Palestine started around 100 years ago. Israel was founded in 1948.

Secondly, Kamala isn't working towards achieving shit. Her government is literally still sending weapons to Israel as Israel is shooting at UN peacekeepers, burning people alive, attacking five different countries, and much more worse.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

Holy shit these comments...

Guys, I think you have over-saturated your target forum. Too many on the same site, you gotta tell the higher ups to spread it around more so it's not so obvious.

Edit: Just for folks who may not understand: Harris has to walk a fine rhetorical line before the election. People do not seem to understand that if she comes out strongly about Israel/Palestine in any way whatsoever, she will lose. People here can't seem to grasp this fact. Maybe they don't live in the US and understand the political/social climate here? Or perhaps they're just too young?

She will lose, and Trump will give Netanyahu carte blanche to expand his ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.

I wish I knew how Harris actually feels about the situation, and I believe her reticence to support Israel in the way Biden has is a good sign. But no, I wish I knew what she's going to do; all I know is that it's far better than the only other possible alternative. Anyone who's gonna say 'der how you know that,' is disingenuous as fuck. You know why. I'm not going to explain that shit again.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Lmao genocide is not a “highly complex geopolitical issue”

It is neocolonialism that has been going on for a while (not 1000 years??) and is now ramping up to full on blatant murder, genocide, and devastation for the Palestinian peoples.

I can think of something US govt can do literally right now to help; STOP GIVING ISRAEL FUCKING WEAPONS!

But then the poor investors of aero/defense industrial complex will whine and complain that their Raytheon stock went down 5% ☹️. Can’t have that now can we

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is not a thousand year conflict. It’s modern imperialism

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (7 children)

This breaks rule 2. "No misinformation" Israel is not a 1000 years old it is less than 100 years old

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is just pro Israeli propaganda. This specific conflict started in 1948. The whole UN has voted against Isreal. And you're telling me that that region will have all out war if Israeli troops stopped killing children? GTF outta here.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months 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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[–] merc 35 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Trump would be a disaster for the middle east. He wouldn't even be good for Israel. Sure, he'd support Israel now, but Trump loves strongman leaders, and there are plenty of them in the middle east, so he'd love Netanyahu, but he'd probably also cozy up to any other regional strongmen and destabilize things even more.

But, the Biden/Harris admin has been effectively sponsoring the genocide by giving military aid to Israel. It's clear that Israel is the biggest military power in the region, and it has been for decades. It has no need for military aid. The best way to help civilians is to make Israel afraid to piss off its neighbors. Right now it's convinced it could beat them in any war, so it's happy to grind the Palestinians into dust, daring Iran, Egypt, etc. to interfere.

Yes, it's a complex geopolitical issue, and an all-out regional war would put many more civilians in danger, not just the Palestinians. But, giving military aid to Israel while they engage in genocide isn't a good way to prevent a regional war.

Even if you're a single-issue voter who doesn't care about women's reproductive health, doesn't care about the rule of law, doesn't care about free speech, doesn't care about corruption, and is only 100% focused on the fate of Palestinians, even then you should be voting for Harris. Even if you don't like her policies, there's still a slight chance she'd listen to reason once elected. Trump would be an utter disaster.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (47 children)

This shit is so fucking stupid....

People ask why Kamala is so far right on so many issues compared to the Dem voter base...

And rather than say "yeah, I can't provide a valid reason she keeps going to the right", we keep getting these posts about how it doesn't matter?

Imagine if Kamala's line was just to the right of yours, whatever you care most about, she's just going to agree with trump on.

And when you go around, asking why you aren't important enough to be on Kamala's side of the line, everyone told you to stop being a baby and be happy with what you get, even tho what you want isn't included in her platform

Like, we don't gain votes by supporting a genocide.

We don't gain votes from a border wall and Trump's other border policies Kamala adopted.

Shit. Just being pro-fracking is going to lose us PA, and trump can't win the election without PA.

That one fucking issue that not a single person can explain why she holds. That's all it would take to prevent trump.

But instead of using your time productively to try and get Kamala to change while there's still time...

You want to shit on the people the party left behind?

Like this doesn't even seem like trying to bully them into voting anymore, you're punching down on these people constantly and gleefully....

You're acting exactly like a fucking trump supporter.

TLDR:

The people trying to pull Kamala left are the ones helping Kamala

You're trying to do the same thing Hillary supporters tried to do in 2016....

Do you honestly not remember how that worked out?

Or is this all intentional?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I see your comments all the time and I just want to say, thank you.

I don't have the energy or care enough to put forth the effort to try to explain these things to the brick wall that is the standard Liberal viewpoint around here. I'm just glad someone is though.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (5 children)

the israeli declaration of independence was 76 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How tf does one "excerpt pressure?"

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"Dude look at how stupid you look in this strawman I made of you!"

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is classic liberal brain worm nonsense.

Blue maga cultists world rather blame leftists than get your shitty candidate in line with her genocidal policies.

It's not a difficult situation to resolve: stop supplying Israel with weapons and support.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (18 children)

I was banned from r/LateStageCapitalism for politely supporting a post with this reasoning. I pointed out that Trump would make the conflict even worse for innocents, and voting third-party to make a statement against neoliberal Democrat rule (which is bad) is a position that, in this moment, only the least-vulnerable in America can take when there is a risk of outright christo-fascism threatening the least-enfranchised.

Banned. “This is a socialist sub.” Proceeded to see a post from a mod openly mocking anyone who entertained lesser-of-two-evils arguments; they sounded like a sneering teenager. Over there, it’s all theory and no parsing of theory with reality.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Oh yes. This will surely win over those far left voters.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Insulting people is how you get voters, right?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget grossly misrepresenting their points of view

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There was no massive Jewish/Muslim conflict for a 1000 years in the region. The biggest massacre in the region against the Jews was probably the Siege of Jerusalem by the Crusaders in 1099, albiet exact numbers are not available. The crusaders killed everyone in the city with a death toll as low as 3000 to as high as 70000. This includes all Muslims, Jews, and Christians.

When I tried to look at the pogroms done against Jews in the Levant the history is actually remarkably scant. While they did happen, my impression based on just reading the wiki article was that they were caught up in larger conflicts in the region and it wasn't a deliberate targetting in the same way the Tsar's cossacks targetted Jews. And in all those cases the dominant power always came to their rescue and compensated them for the damages done by their persecutors. Also it appears that the worst perps weren't Muslims, but Druze (who are not Muslims).

In short, Trump is not only highly dishonest, but also a worthless shitbag who has been struggling his entire life to enshittify the world we all live in. He is worse than Bezos or Zuckerberg, because at least Amazon is a decent shopping platform, and Zuckerberg's facebook helped many people (myself included) to reconnect with childhood friends that I thought I would never speak to again).

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (16 children)

The majority of people want an end to the Unconditional Military Support of Israel. That is the requirement for the US to abide by US and International Humanitarian Law as well. It's not that complicated. You can't say you want to support civilians on both sides when you provide one side with the weapons used to commit genocide against the other unconditionally.

The argument for people who are anti-genocide to vote Harris, is that Trump will not only be much worse than the current administration, but will not be able to be swayed by public pressure in the same way Harris might be. The harm reduction argument is true for domestic policies, but is meaningless for foreign policy when the current administration is assisting Genocide.

Harris is significantly more likely to be pressured to change course from public pressure than Trump, that is the right argument for getting people who are anti-genocide to vote Harris despite the current administration's policy. Because the fight doesn't end after the election, but the fight will be much more difficult under a Trump administration.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (31 children)

You see, continuing to unconditionally support genocide is actually the best path towards not genocide and if you disagree you hate democracy

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Can someone provide further sources by what she means by an all out war if Israel loses support? Like stop killing civilians in Gaza, that's all we're asking

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

This isn't what's happening, though. The Dems and Reps are aligned on Israel because it isn't a moral issue, but economic, which is why Biden has given Israel everything they want, including approving the invasion of Lebanon. The US supports Israel as a settler-colonial project because it helps the US secure power in the region, securing the Petro-Dollar as the world currency. This is how the US exploits the Global South, through predatory IMF loans, aka Imperialism.

Read To Stop Marx, They Made Zion. The genocide of Palestinians is for economic reasons, it cannot stop without a One-State Solution.

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