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Thanks, Uncommitted Assholes.
I loved having people arguing with me and saying "At least my conscience is clear."
How's your conscience now??? Still feeling good about your decision?
They think they get to wipe their hands of it because they "didn't participate", refusing to concede that said choice still counts as their participation. Through ignorance, cruelty, and/or privilege, they'll blame everyone else for the state of the world while refusing to do their part.
Howard Zinn - you can't be neutral on a moving train. The Enlightened Centrists (TM) always look like suuuuuch dipshits when they talk about "both sides".
There is a certain set of dumbasses that will say this kind of thing no matter what.
It was the Harris campaign that made the decision to not break from Biden on Israel, at the cost of at least a +6 points gain. Those votes were entirely up for grabs. That's the fault of the campaign's calculations to ignore those voters, take them for granted, and instead run to the right with having the most lethal Military and unwaivering support for Israel a year into this genocide. That single policy change would have secured her the swing states needed to win the election. Biden is a Christian Zionist, the genocide and de juro annexation of Palestine is exactly what he wants.
I voted for Harris and told others to do the same. It's still on the campaign to earn votes to win. If they took this election seriously, they would have been going after those votes. Blaming voters is just sowing division when we need unity and solidarity to fight against Fascism.
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The United States Administration is the one enabling Israel unconditionally. Support for this genocide is bipartisan.
Can you also make a graph on how many luxury hotels Trump is going to build in Gaza after the rubble is cleared, thanks 👍
Your take is absolutely idiotic.
How? What does blaming voters accomplish exactly?
If the Democratic Party is genuinely democratic, then they would respond to public pressure. If the Democratic party is not and instead only beholden to Donor interests, then we all have a much bigger problem where the interests of the American public is not represented.
I have no clue what you're trying to say here
Why would I expect people who care about ending the genocide to stop caring about that?
the donors of the Democrats/Republicans are doing a good job keeping the citizens divided and pointing fingers at each other
Yeah, no.
After months of alleged "Genocide Joe" bullshit, they don't get to shirk themselves of this.
They were told this was going to happen. They didn't want to listen.
But hey, they've gone from not complicit, to extremely complicit.
Your statement that we were not complicit before is just plain old lies.
I think you have the wrong we in that case
Democrats always have a scapegoat to explain the bad performance away too
Nothing alleged about Genocide Joe.
Any vote for Harris or trump was still a vote for the war crimes to continue. The American people never had a say on this issue.
And yet, this very article we're commenting on is about war crimes getting worse.
Almost like when your options are "bad" or "worse" you shouldn't vote for "worse."
That sounds like some extortion. Not exactly something I would want to champion or believe to be a viable political platform
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That... is nothing the fuck like extortion.
"Vote for me or I'll release these pictures of you fucking your dog" is extortion.
"Vote for me because my opponent will make this issue you claim to care about worse" is not.
No. That's not a thing.
Don't leave out the Harris campaign with the Cheneys and the DNC