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Don't support genocide, it's as simple as that!
By the way: Voting isn't actually support. The American system is not set up in a way where votes actually add to the power of the Presidential office. On the other hand, making a deliberate choice not to act does mean supporting whatever happens without your action, which could be genocide. This means YOU HAVE TO VOTE HARRIS IN ORDER TO NOT SUPPORT GENOCIDE. The socialism angels are hypocrites.
What they think their vote contributes to:
there are two facts about this election
so neither outcome will help with the genocide. acting like voting third party helps in any way shape or form is disingenuous at best. so what should you do?
my argument is that you should vote for the person you can hope to convince on this issue. phone calls, protests, social media, whatever means you have... which of these candidates is more likely to respond to any kind of public pressure about this?
Harris might be responsive, and let's be honest, she might not be. but you know for a fact that it's definitely not the fucking orange turd. Natenyahu wants him to win. how can you ignore that?
neither. 0.0% chance for either candidate.
i only voted for kamala because she's a woman and even though she's an awful candidate at least we can get it out of our collective system, show little girls they can be president, and the neoliberal status quo is probably still better than Trump
i'm not entirely sure on that because I think Kamala is more likely to lead us into a war with Russia.. but Trump is more volatile in general I think
This level of cynicism is unwarranted. Sure it might be low, but for Harris it's at least 0.1%.
with the current stranglehold the pro-Israeli lobby has on American politics (includes both GOP and DNC) even 0.1% is a stretch
AIPAC even brags about it: https://aipacorg.app.box.com/s/t8vvqt7evxvgkzn5jktpwejate6oxo0y
98% of AIPAC endorsed candidates won their election in 2022. if you are a politician and you say something mildly critical of Israel they will go to war with you and do everything so that your opponent wins
Israel has figured out how to hack American democracy. There is no going back at this point. We are a pro-Israel country for the foreseeable future, regardless of which candidate wins this election or the next one or the next one
lol I'm not an American, go Bolshevik yourself
you're going dumber with every comment.
So, your stakes in this "bet" are zero? Cool.
Oh, well, your anecdote sans evidence has me convinced.
Real "i have a black friend energy" that i definitely believe.
Keep screaming, little child. It's almost nappy time.
take a breather
wrong again, Bob. you can keep the balls though; no one's gonna make use of them anyway.
I'm not supporting anything. as i spelled out in a way i mistakenly thought even a braindead toddler would understand, there are only two possible outcomes to this election. You either vote for one or the other. Because it's only two outcomes, not voting or voting third party still contributes to one of these two. That's the system as it currently stands.
dude you're just a troll. either make an argument on what a US citizen can do that can result in a third outcome or shut the fuck up.
If you aren't even American then shut the fuck up. You don't really grasp how complex the politics actually are.
We do understand it pretty well. Sincerely, an ex-Hungarian.
Fuck off
Don’t support genocide, it’s as simple as that!
Don't support genocide, it's as simple as that!
Just say whatever the fuck you want while you do whatever the fuck you want, it's as simple as that!