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    Just acknowledge that we were always getting one of two options. This isn’t confusing in the slightest.

    To extend the analogy used in the comment starting this thread, it’s like leaving your abusive partner to live with a more abusive partner.

    Why the ever loving fuck would you choose the worse option?

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      The choices were genocide or genocide. Apparently some privileged people here haven’t noticed that the genocide has already been getting worse and worse for over a year now.

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        Maybe electing someone unlikely to restrain them at all while simultaneously making shit worse in the US and Ukraine, doing a 180 on what little climate progress we’ve made, making abortion illegal nationwide, and reducing/ending social security will help.

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          There’s people in my community who lost relatives in Gaza. I’ve been to their funerals. Their families will tell you, “Trump didn’t kill my family, Biden did.” Please tell me how I could convince them to put that aside and vote for Biden anyway. We tried, despite Biden’s speeches on the topic making it harder and harder since he decided to twist that knife in deeper and deeper by giving such helpful speeches saying that he doesn’t trust Palestinians or that Israel has not committed any war crimes.

          In the end, Harris got far more votes in my community than Trump did, but it didn’t make any difference since Trump won by a margin bigger than all the voters in my community.

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            Trump ultimately ended up carrying Dearborn, a majority Arab American city in Michigan, by more than 6 percentage points — a massive swing from Biden’s nearly 40 point win there in 2020. But most Dearborn voters also voted against Trump, who got about 43% support in a deeply split field.

            Guess you’re not in Dearborn.

            I wonder if these people just don’t think Trump is that great a threat or still haven’t figured out how FPTP voting works yet.

        • @hark
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          Biden wasn’t restraining israel at all and Harris kept talking about how she’d be a continuation of Biden. Now you’re bringing in a bunch of other issues that aren’t what these voters are focused on. Turns out you have to appeal to voters to get their votes.

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            You seem to be under the impression that all discussions between the two countries happened in public. Do I have that right?

    • @pjwestin
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      As I said in the other comment you left, your interpretation of the analogy makes no sense. Your point would be valid if I were discussing Arab and Muslim voters who voted for Trump, but I’m not; I’m discussing the Uncommitted movement, who endorsed neither candidate.

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        Oh they only didn’t know whether they wanted to better or worse option. Still pretty goddamn stupid.

        • @pjwestin
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          Yeah, also no, and it you’d actually read the original comment, you’d know that. As I said:

          they declined to endorse her, but still urged their supporters not to vote Trump or third-party.

          They knew Trump was worse, they didn’t want Trump to win, but they needed Harris to make a gesture towards the Arab community before they could endorse her; she didn’t, so they didn’t. She didn’t negotiate to get their endorsement, so she didn’t get their endorsement. It’s very funny that you’re acting like everyone else is an idiot yet you still don’t understand this.

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            It’s very funny that you’re acting like everyone else is an idiot yet you still don’t understand this.

            You’re a fucking moron if you didn’t do everything you could to stop Trump from being elected again. Straight up.

            I understand what this vulnerable group was trying to do but everyone else with half a brain was screaming about their illogic of vocal non endorsement. Yeah, they fucked around with “but hey, don’t vote 3rd party or Trump either”.

            For fucks sake, the group is called “Abandon Harris”. In a voting system with 2 real options…

            That was the fuck around part. The find out starts soon, unfortunately.

    • @Iceman
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      A perfect analogy where you argue to stay with abusive partner and you are actually a horrible person if you don’t want to stay with your abusive partner. The idea that your partner stops being abusive is also so absurd that it’s out of the question.

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        Yeah, yeah. People said this leading up to the election to. The plain logic of “we’re getting one of these two” didn’t seem to click with many, you included.

        I’m a cis white male who makes pretty damn good money so in all likelihood I’ll be fine. That surely won’t be the case for many. I tried. /shrug