• Gwaer@lemmy.world
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    yeah, cause Donald trump doesn’t support genocide too.

    There’s no discussion here. You get one or the other.

    No amount of not voting changes the result to the point where you aren’t getting Trump or Biden.

    With trump you lose the progress people have fought for. With Biden you get status quo bullshit. At least the status quo preserves the efforts of the past people can still build on in the future. It’s a non argument. Every one of your points is irrelevant for this election right now.

    So I guess we gotta realize you’re just a bot after all. This election matters. Every election matters. But progress isn’t only made during major presidential elections, there’s plenty of ways to keep moving the needle outside of this. I won’t be wasting further time with you. But hopefully people reading don’t fall into the same trap you have or are paid to present.

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      Don’t forget: if we get Trump and manage to continue to have elections, the DNC can and will throw up an even shittier pro-corporate, center-right candidate against Trump and still claim the high ground.

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        I love this. It’s a perfect example. If we manage to continue having elections is on the ballet. It’s actually in question.

        The other side being crap is completely irrelevant at that point. It’s absurd that I of all people am telling you to vote for Joe Biden, who I don’t agree with about anything. I think Bernie was too to the right for me personally.

        Do there need to be fundamental changes? Absolutely, when you can’t vote for anyone at all it’s going to be much harder to affect the change you want.

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          I disagree.

          An end to the farce that is democracy in America would actually make it easier to affect change, because we wouldn’t be wasting time yelling at each other to vote anymore and could actually focus on direct action.

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      yeah, cause Donald trump doesn’t support genocide too.

      No. Fuck this. GOP supporting a genocide does not make it ok for Democrats.

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          That’s not the point. There is not a candidate on the ballot that can win that doesn’t support it.

          Which is why the only option for people who actually believe genocide support is non-negotiable is voting Uncommitted.

          Joe Biden is not minimizing Israel’s genocide, he’s actively facilitating it to the maximum extent. There’s no way for you to vote Joe Biden and pretend you’re the anti-genocide. No amount of rhetorical backflips will change that you’re voting for a genocide supporter.

          You might not like that hard realization that that is what you are now, but that’s what your vote communicates to Democrats; “I accept genocide support as part of the party platform and am willing to go as far to the extreme right as you want, as long as the otherside is slightly more to the right. I’ll never revolt.”

          […] very real chance of making progress in the future?

          There is no progress through a party that supports genocide. None. That’s already been established historically. You’re essentially voting exactly like a Republican from the 80s-90s, that’s your “progress”.

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              You care so much about genocide you’re ok with the finish the job candidate.

              Go look at what’s happening in Gaza, stop fucking covering up your eyes to the reality of what Biden is enabling. Destruction and starvation to such an extent that people literally can’t even calculate it. The people who would account for the dead have have been bombed to death along with everyone else. Hospitals reduced to rubble, schools leveled, cemetaries bulldozed, aid workers murdered. Millions of people people herded into “safe zones” then then bombed.

              If this isn’t finishing the fucking the job I don’t know what is:

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              Fuck anyone who tries to “yeah but Trump” this away. This is Joe Biden’s “moderate genocide”. Fuck anyone who excuses this is or demands that others accept it as a “compromise” so you can save your own comfort. How fucking dare you try to convince people to support someone who’s doing this.

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