• cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Like I get this is a dangerous area but it shouldn’t really push anyone towards Mr. Trump .

    Edit: given the parties attitudes towards voting (dems want more people to vote, repubs want less) a non-vote is a push for Trump because it gives them exactly want they would have to work orherwise to message and use dirty tricks to accomplish. They need not lift a finger and your “protest” vote has helped them win by default

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      11 months ago

      Maybe - and this is a pretty radical, bleeding-edge out there kind of idea - maybe Biden should stop fucking supporting Israel, then.

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        11 months ago

        What is his enmeshment or is that more of a US political system issue in general? Something something A-dee-el?

        Trump literally made Jerusalem the capital or some shit. Why do you think he’s going to be any tuffer on Israel + Netanyahoo?

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          11 months ago

          Trump is a suppurating piece of shit.

          However, fuck the mindset that says “I don’t need to be good enough to vote for, so long as the other guy is worse”.

          And extra-splintery-fuck the mindset that blames the voters for ‘getting it wrong’. Mmmnope, that’s rejecting the entire premise of democracy.

          If you don’t get the votes, it means you suck.

          If you want to win, stop sucking.

          If you want to keep sucking, you don’t get to complain when you lose.

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      11 months ago

      It’s not pushing people toward Trump, it’s just pushing people away from Biden, and in some cases away from the polls all together. This is the reality of financing genocide, people aren’t going to be happy about it, and telling them there will still be genocide regardless of what they do, doesn’t in fact make them choose genocide. The dems need to either do something about those voters or find a way to win without them.

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        11 months ago

        They’ll try to find a way to win without them. Support of Israel by the US isn’t going anywhere, no matter how much we don’t like it.

        Just like the last 250 years of US history: We need to be deal with our country to do heinous shit we don’t like. Because it’s gonna, and there’s nothing we can do about it.