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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Except a lot of Jewish voters are anti Netanyahu and want a ceasefire too

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

I agree. That was an additional detail that I did not cover, as I wanted to keep it relatively simple. I expect that the anti-Netanyahu Jewish voters are unlikely to switch to voting Trump, given that the latter is firmly and openly pro-genocide.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s a good point, but I don’t think it’s about Jewish voters at all. It’s about AIPAC.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

And most major U.S. media outlets are highly biased toward Israel for some reason. I don't know if I've ever seen the U.S. media this biased on an issue; I have to resort to small outlets like The Intercept or foreign media like Al Jazeera (which are biased in their own way), to stay informed. The only things comparable I can think of is the Iraq-WMD thing, and their perpetual bias against labor rights/for capital.

[–] WhatYouNeed -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AIPAC disagrees with you.

Wait until after the election to see who really stands where.

[–] Fosheze 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

AIPAC ≠ Jews

AIPAC = Zionists

Its an important distinction.

[–] WhatYouNeed 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

AIPAC = heavy influence on US politics, including elections.

[–] Fosheze 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Edit: replied to wrong person

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

And if the government were so inclined, they could declare AIPAC a foreign lobby group and stop them the same way they did RT.

[–] stoly -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It is importance but it’s unclear why you are mentioning it here.

[–] Fosheze 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Because they were responding to this comment by saying "AIPAC disagrees with you" implying that Jewish Voters = AIPAC.

Except a lot of Jewish voters are anti Netanyahu and want a ceasefire too

[–] WhatYouNeed 2 points 2 months ago

Not saying all Jewish voters = AIPAC. Some would, but not all.

I'm sating AIPAC has an oversized influence in US politics.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not at the expense of democracy, at least I hope. There is no other option this year.

[–] Fosheze 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And this will be repeated every election year from here on out now that the DNC knows they can get away with it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are other avenues that can be taken in a democracy between now and the next election. Ranked choice voting would be great.

How would a trump win help the genocide happening in Gaza??

[–] Fosheze 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How would a trump win help the genocide happening in Gaza??

Is this the only thing any of you can say?

No remotely sane person is saying trump would be better. That doesn't mean the DNC isn't fucking us over a barrel. Sitting around parroting "Hur dur but trump worse" is just enabling them. After trump there will be someone else and the DNC will just keep following the overton window to the right because they just need to keep pointing out that the other guy is worse. Plus all their online enablers will just shut down any discussion by repeating "well you must love trump if you don't like the DNC stepping on your balls. Yum yum tasty boot."

Newsflash they will never give us RCV. RCV would take this new powerful tool of "but other guy worse" away from them and they are never going to sacrifice that power.

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