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The US primaries and the general election are two different things. Voting uncommitted in the primary expresses support for the Palestinian plight and does not give Republicans any ground.

The uncommitted movement presents a safe and effective avenue for voters to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden’s policies, particularly with the Israel-Hamas conflict. By doing so in the primary, voters can signal discontent without risking a Republican victory in the general election. The purpose is to send a wake-up call to the Biden administration that it is failing to address issues and effectively engage with the party, vis a vis that Biden is enabling a genocide.

That being said, anyone who calls for an uncommitted or third-party vote in the general election i will personally kick in the gender neutral balls (in Minecraft).

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's not the message though, so this is disingenuous or misleading. We all 98% agree the US should tell Israel to quit their shit and not give them more funds or weapons, and that it's disappointing Biden and 90% of the US political establishment have supported this. However, what people are told is we should not vote for Biden, and vote third party or not vote, to 'send the Democrats a message'. Enough people doing that would have the predictable result of getting Trump elected, so yeah, it's a decent question why people would suggest that when a Trump admin would surely be worse on the Palestine issue.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Enough people doing that would have the predictable result of getting Trump elected,

I agree with this and it's what I'm afraid of. I totally support voting in the primary as you wish, even just to send a message (I support voting how you wish in all cases). But in this case using primary voting to send a dissatisfied message about the Democratic candidate has me worried it will instead send a wider message (or mass media will push this message) that the US populace feels Biden is unpopular compared to Trump.

Which is absolutely not the case with the vast majority of people voting against Biden in the primary. But that kind of message (accidental or intentional) can do real harm to prevent a literal fascist takeover in November. This is the totality of my concern and if we weren't facing down the potential end of democracy in the US, I'd give a lot less shits about potentially torpedoing Biden's chances. And I feel a lot of the hate against Biden has galvanized right around the time the primary season started which seems convenient for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

It’s almost like sending bombs to kill innocent children might be one of those wedge issues

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (22 children)

you misunderstand the us primary election process.

The uncommitted movement presents a safe and effective avenue for voters to voice dissatisfaction with President Biden’s policies, particularly with the Israel-Hamas conflict. By doing so in the primary, voters can signal discontent without risking a Republican victory in the general election. The purpose is to send a wake-up call to the Biden administration that it is failing to address issues and effectively engage with the party, vis a vis that Biden is enabling a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (9 children)

No, I sure don’t. Talking endless shit about Biden will affect more than the primary.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I agree that Biden is a piece of shit, but if you don't vote for that piece of shit, then you'll end up with an even worse piece of shit. Don't even think that you're "sending him a message" by not voting or voting third party.

It absolutely sucks that things are like this, but sometimes you have to vote for a genocidal cunt to prevent an even worse genocidal cunt from getting elected, even if it makes you feel bad. Trump becoming the new president would only make things worse for you, and for Palestine, and for Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

you misunderstand what the primaries are. check out the post body text and the other threads here for an explanation.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

This shit is just spam at this point

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Do dead kids in Gaza make tasty spam? I usually only get it pork based

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Yes, I'm sure that if the democrats lose and Trump gets elected because people demonize Biden everything will get better in Palestine. Get real. Now's not the time to be an idealist.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Gross. Don't make this sub about this. We can be anti genocide without being pro religious extremist. This reads as pro republican propoganda - no one needs that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

196 stands with Palestine —literally the mods of this community

please self-examine as to why you read religious extremism into a pro-democrat, anti-genocide post.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

The comic you posted doesn’t match what your post says.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Both Israel and Palestine countries are led by killing psychos.

There, i said it.

You can ban me now.

[–] marcos 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You mean Gaza? AFAIK the Palestine Authority considers Hamas criminals.

[–] TropicalDingdong 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

some where in there is Israel and we might need a fourth spiderman for maybe the US.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

and the us! all three

isn’t that just wonderful

edit: as others pointed out, Hamas =/= Palestine. so maybe look into why you are equating those two 🫤

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

This really shouldn't be such a controversial take. Every side of this conflict fucking sucks, and they've all sucked for decades. Israel sucks for electing a fascist, Palestine sucks due to being religious fundamentalists, the U.S. sucks for doing all this in the first place and building Israel up as a superpower in the region, and all the surrounding Middle Eastern powers suck because they claim a Free Palestine is a priority while doing fuck-all to support it. Even if a miracle ceasefire is called, there is no geopolitical will for a Free Palestine, so Israel will just do this again in 10 years once their stockpiles are replenished.

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[–] TotallynotJessica 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Dialectics people! Biden is complicit in genocide, and far fewer lives are endangered under him than Trump. Biden winning doesn't guarantee life, and we must vote for him to have a CHANCE at living. Even if we survive, I wouldn't call most of it living.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

If the conclusion translates to way stricter conditions for aid (rolling back settlements, carving out pathways for aid, etc.) you won't get called fascist. If your conclusion is to let Trump into office, you are.

The first take is also a problem.

Genocide has a specific definition. The term is probably not applicable to Gaza, and doesn't have to be. A humanitarian crisis also leads to the above mentioned conclusion. Starting to call everything a Genocide that is nowhere near that level primarily has two effects:

  • First it shuts down any debate about what is happening and what actions to take as a consequence. People who don't agree with the application of the term "genocide" will see you conspiracy theorists or similar. People who agree will write off all arguments as genocide denial. Stunlocking all processes that could lead to action.

  • Secondly, and most importantly, it muddles the term. Genocide doesn't seem that bad if Israel is doing one or even Canada. While it does draw attention to your current issues, it simultaneously downplays actual recognized genocides.

An example of the second Point is, that a lot of people calling it a genocide are calling for aid to stop and NOT immediate intervention in the ONGOING genocide. Which would be a more appropriate reaction to genocide.

It honestly feels like a psy-op by Trumpels. How is your solution to this Conflict getting Trump - who is all the way on Israels side - into office? The man is one of the reasons for this situation, by cutting aid, by initiating the Abraham Accords, where "The plight of the Palestinians was an afterthought, if even that."

Genious idea, I see no way that can go wrong.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Please do a small service for yourself and educate yourself on what's going on in Gaza. Actual fucking Holocaust survivors have spoken against it. Israel is trying to get rid of Palestinians, and every day the already thin veil comes off more and more.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Israel is definitely complicit in genocide

 In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I most certainly don't. Neither do I stand with Israel nor the USA.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I sure wish I knew about the uncommitted movement before election day.

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