Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says victory in Gaza will mean the enclave being "entirely destroyed," Palestinians leaving for other countries.
More importantly, as a non-white American watching a genocide start at home, it very much matters who and what people voted (or didn’t vote) for.
What really pisses me off is people saying democrats would have been just as bad, while we watch people drug off by thugs in black body armor to El Salvador to die without due process.
I think it’s safe to speculate that that wouldn’t have happened under the alternative.
Yeah as a brown immigrant also in the US…get over it. This was inevitable; were just speedrunning it. I know you’re hurting and want to expel that pain, but you really need to figure out how to channel it into something constructive instead of whining on the Internet.
I’m trying to understand where you are coming from. In the general elections, I voted for Harris and Clinton after voting against them in primaries. The thing about voting and elections is that there are hundreds of variables involved, and focusing on one to pin blame on a sliver of the electorate doesn’t seem like thoughtful analysis or productive to an oppositional cause.
You can point to turnouts and results from specific counties until your finger dries up and falls off, but that only highlights a neglect regarding myriad other factors that contribute to results. My opinion is that the Harris campaign ran the race the way they thought best and they lost. They lost. Sure, in sense we all lost, but they were the ones driving the bus.
We aren’t children without agency, they aren’t singers on American idol.
They had policy manifestos, they were explicit about them.
And the voices screaming to ignore everything else and focus only on Palestine as the only variable that mattered, in unison, with almost perfect resonance with Russian troll farms (curious given Russia’s close ties with both Iran and hamas in the lead up to october 7, and their use of Gaza to distract the west from support for Ukraine).
We’re being played like puppets, and nobody is willing to admit there are malicious actors at work who benefit.
Or… It could be that people have lost faith in the Democratic party. Look at their current approval rating. Look at Biden’s terrible presidency. Look at Biden and Harris’ terible campaigns. Look at the issues and policies that they ran on. All of that pushed people away from them based on the polling.
It’s easy to blame foreign influence, but it’s more productive to figure out why the supposedly left party ran to the right, and alienated their voting base. Did the Russian try to influence the election? Of course, I’d be surprised if they didn’t. But from what I saw, the Demcrats did more damage to themselves than the Russians could have hoped for.
This is about America, you’re trying to make American politics all about Palestine, to the point you literally sacrificed America for Palestine.
The party knew genocide was unpopular and went ahead with their support anyway. They sacrificed America for netanyahu and cannot imagine ever doing anything else.
I sent my family to civilization when I saw this shit coming miles away.
I’m not scared.
I’m pissed and in the mood to start shit.
I’m empathetic for the other millions of brown people who aren’t as fortunate, who you seem fine with watching get exterminated like the monster you are.
I care.
More importantly, as a non-white American watching a genocide start at home, it very much matters who and what people voted (or didn’t vote) for.
What really pisses me off is people saying democrats would have been just as bad, while we watch people drug off by thugs in black body armor to El Salvador to die without due process.
I think it’s safe to speculate that that wouldn’t have happened under the alternative.
Yeah as a brown immigrant also in the US…get over it. This was inevitable; were just speedrunning it. I know you’re hurting and want to expel that pain, but you really need to figure out how to channel it into something constructive instead of whining on the Internet.
Fuck that, I escaped the vile shit hole of the south, now I’m escaping to Europe.
I’ve lived everywhere, I can manage.
But, you see…
I’M NOT THE ONLY MOTHER FUCKER THIS IS HAPPENING TOO!!! AND MOST OF THE REST AREN’T SO FORTUNATE YOU THOUGHTLESS PRICK!!!
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I’m trying to understand where you are coming from. In the general elections, I voted for Harris and Clinton after voting against them in primaries. The thing about voting and elections is that there are hundreds of variables involved, and focusing on one to pin blame on a sliver of the electorate doesn’t seem like thoughtful analysis or productive to an oppositional cause.
You can point to turnouts and results from specific counties until your finger dries up and falls off, but that only highlights a neglect regarding myriad other factors that contribute to results. My opinion is that the Harris campaign ran the race the way they thought best and they lost. They lost. Sure, in sense we all lost, but they were the ones driving the bus.
We aren’t children without agency, they aren’t singers on American idol.
They had policy manifestos, they were explicit about them.
And the voices screaming to ignore everything else and focus only on Palestine as the only variable that mattered, in unison, with almost perfect resonance with Russian troll farms (curious given Russia’s close ties with both Iran and hamas in the lead up to october 7, and their use of Gaza to distract the west from support for Ukraine).
We’re being played like puppets, and nobody is willing to admit there are malicious actors at work who benefit.
Or… It could be that people have lost faith in the Democratic party. Look at their current approval rating. Look at Biden’s terrible presidency. Look at Biden and Harris’ terible campaigns. Look at the issues and policies that they ran on. All of that pushed people away from them based on the polling.
It’s easy to blame foreign influence, but it’s more productive to figure out why the supposedly left party ran to the right, and alienated their voting base. Did the Russian try to influence the election? Of course, I’d be surprised if they didn’t. But from what I saw, the Demcrats did more damage to themselves than the Russians could have hoped for.
No, your lying eyes must be russian psyops.
I’m not sure how much better Democrats would have been with respect to Palestine, and I’m not going to speculate.
BUT I feel confident saying that the outcome for people in the U.S. would have been much better had the election gone differently.
The principle difference is that they try to keep the quiet part quiet. Mainly by screaming abuse at anyone who has a problem with the quiet part.
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Because there’s no history of brown people being killed in America.
This is about America, you’re trying to make American politics all about Palestine, to the point you literally sacrificed America for Palestine.
Well-played.
The party knew genocide was unpopular and went ahead with their support anyway. They sacrificed America for netanyahu and cannot imagine ever doing anything else.
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Hahaha haha!
I sent my family to civilization when I saw this shit coming miles away.
I’m not scared.
I’m pissed and in the mood to start shit.
I’m empathetic for the other millions of brown people who aren’t as fortunate, who you seem fine with watching get exterminated like the monster you are.
So… I mean, have fun?
I’m waiting for shit to get really real.
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You literally jumped into a thread about American politics.
To say you don’t care about American politics.
You see the contradiction there?
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Thread.
English motherfucker, dost thou speakest it?