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People think it's gonna be fun, like Zombieland. Instead, it's going to be fun, like The Road.
We didn't start the fire...
What a time to be alive!
Societal collapse, eh? Sounds like a great opportunity for profit!!!
Imagine how much ACs we could sell! And how expensive we could make food!
I really have to slow down on Armored Core, I thought you were talking about selling everyone mechs for a minute
I like that idea for our timeline better.
gestures broadly
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a bit late for that when society is turning to fascism all over the world.
Good ol' fascism! You can always count on fascism to to help people. Well, the right people. I mean, some of the right people, maybe a small subset of the right people.
An ever increasingly small subset of the right people because Fascism requires there to ALWAYS be an other to blame it on.
Fascism saved my buddy's life in 'Nam, maaaaan.
Scientists. Experts. Covid. Elon.
Spam!
Good, I'd rather it all burn than to be looked down upon by the Trumpler in the Ivory Tower
Wow, yeah if only we had some alternative to Trump.
We do, but for some fucking reason a ton of people think not voting for her will magically save Palestine from Nethanyu. I voted for Harris, everyone else needs to do the same fucking thing.
If only she could do something to change the mind of those "tons of people".
Trump ALSO wants to destroy Palestine, you must understand that there is no option here that helps Palestine, there is merely one option that can help America. I'd like a perfect solution but there isn't one
Oh there is one, Kamala could just not continue on the same path re: Israel as previous people in power. It's a simple change that gets her a lot of votes. But oh no, Trump bad, vote Harris, that's the only compromise people like you seem to offer.
I'm not offering a compromise, I can't make Harris do anything. If you think I'm some kind of wizard who can wave her hand and suddenly make Harris put Nethanyu on blast as she sends in the calvary to start rebuilding Palestine, then I got a bridge to sell ya.
I'm merely point out that we have two options.
We let Trump get elected, he deploys nuclear weapons in Palestine because he's an idiot who keeps demanding to know why we aren't doing that already ( https://patch.com/us/across-america/donald-trump-reportedly-asked-adviser-nuclear-weapons-if-we-have-them-why-we-can-t ) and starts rounding up vulnerable Americans in camps because he likes Hitler. We try to protest both, he deploys the national guard.
We get Harris elected, the threat of Trump is gone forever because he's not going to even live long enough to try this shit again in 2028, we still have the freedom to protest, she doesn't make things any worse for Palestine than they already are under the Biden administration, and we can still focus on trying to push the country leftward with the whole "Not having to fight for our lives" conditions a Harris presidency brings that the alternative does not.
Under the former, we can't do shit to help Palestine because we'll have our own problems, under the latter there's still a fight.
I'm not meekly saying "But Trump..", I'm merely being realistic in what the landscape looks like under each presidency.
Palestine isn't gonna have a good time under either President this is true, but one of those is clearly worse than the other for not only that region, but our region. You must understand that.
If you really want to stand there and pitch a fit because you can't have your cake and eat it too, congratulations, you're going to get us all killed.
PS: "We could all vote Third Party." - ELECTORAL COLLEGES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
"Electoral Colleges are inhumane, undemocratic, and we need ranked choice voting." - True, but it doesn't change the fact that our current system is an Electoral College and Republicans are the reason that's not going to change anytime soon.
Buddy, buddy. The entire thing is really simple. Trump doesn't need the votes from pro Palestinian people. He probably wouldn't get them anyways. Harris needs those votes. So either she changes course, or she loses an election. People who see Palestine as an important issue aren't going to vote for someone because they are "better" but still supporting genocide. They'll vote based on other issues, or won't vote at all. It's not the job of the voters to get a specific party votes - it's the exact opposite. They are getting elected for the people - not for themselves. So do what people want or lose.
you didn't read the post you are replying to.
your stance is irritatingly naive.
If pro-palestine single-issue voters sink the Harris ticket there is a real chance they wont get to vote again. If perfection is allowed to be the enemy of progress you will inadvertantly elect the regressive party. A party helmed by a guy who has said publicly on multiple interviews he would sic the national guard or military on protestors, undesierables and political rivals.
It is frustrating to have to keep going over this, either the correct choice is made by the US citizenry and the status-quo continues (as poor as that may be) or the guard rails of democracy are dismantled by a wanabe dictator and your prefrences wont be asked of you again.
Ah, single issue voters who aren't bright enough to understand the big picture and how it effects them.
Or again... failing to realize Trump has a stance on this issue that's literally worse than Harris'..... and has done shit like put the fucking Israel-US Assembly in god damn Jerusalem, basically mandating that Palestine doesn't exist.
It's like imagine one party wants to break your spine and permanently paralyze you, and the other is going to kick you in the shin really really hard, and if you don't vote because neither of those sound good thinking "Oh well, I don't really want either of those." the former is going to win, and it's kind of objectively much worse.
I'd say the ones who have been saying it's not real should be the first to become soylent green
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