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Americans: Never, EVER question again how Hitler came to power in 1933 Germany (self.leopardsatemyface)

submitted 1 month ago by Treczoks to c/leopardsatemyface

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Because you now did it to yourself.

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[–] Carighan 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, I just feel it's ridiculous to try make an issue out of Gaza while you're actively electing a fascist at home.

You know, if my neighbor is gasping for air, I sure would like to help them. Turns out, there's a good reason they tell you on planes to first put your own air mask on, because otherwise you're unconscious and can't help anyways.

Which is what'll happen now. Because apparently in a choice between 1-worse-99-better and 100-worse-0-better, the latter felt more natural to the majority.

Again, the reason I blame voters is because they let themselves get controlled into caring about such a singular issue, to the point where they have now fucked themselves over because they forgot to look at their own country even for just a second. Which is even more annoying because unlike last time, they had a lot of preparatory time in which to see just how exactly electing Trump will fuck them all up.

That's he's also going to make Gaza worse is a given, he has explictly said so. But that's not what I blame the voters for. I blame them for putting him in power by letting themselves get controlled to only see a single issue.

[–] Maalus 2 points 1 month ago

There is no "control", there is important things to people. Hell, some things are more important than others. And genocide of your friends is one of those things.

Explain to me - why didn't they stop the genocide (or at least the arms shipments) to Israel when they are in charge for the last four years. If you are able to do that and not sound like an absolute cynical monster, then we can talk about politics. But you can't.

Again, you wouldn't walk up to a gay person and try to convince them to vote for Trump because the border wall was "a good idea" (as Harris put it). They'd call you insane. They'd tell you fuck Trump because he is anti LGBT. That would still be "a single issue" for them. So why are you trying to come in here and be holier than thou, to a different group of people who have a similar dealbreaker about Harris?