• Flying Squid
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    Are you seriously calling what Trump wants here “less severe” than genocide?

    Also, quibbling about the difference between genocide and ethnic cleansing is fucking sick.

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      Is forcefully displacing a million people less worse than murdering a million people? Yes. Objectively it is.

      It should be obvious that being alive is better than being dead. Again this is not to defend Trump. Ethnic cleansing is a tremendous and outrageous crime.

      But genocide is a worse crime, and claiming that voting the genociders over the ethnic cleansers is in any way ethically defensible is absurd.

      The only acceptable ethical position is to oppose both and to remove anyone who commits or lets these crimes happen from power. It is a moral imperative to do so, even if other people did not. Anyone who voted for a D or R is ultimately complicit in these crimes too. If the US wasn’t morally bankrupt, people would have voted a third party to power. Any form of compromise with genocide is complicity. Fucking WW2 and Holocaust should have taught as much.

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          Where did i defend Trump? Also do you think it is an acceptable way to discuss to make such insincere personal attacks?

          Why do you think, there is distinct categories? Why do you think genocide is singled out and is not equated with ethnic cleansing, like for instance “racial segregation and apartheid” are put together as one crime?

          I understand that people are very emotional about Trump right now, but it is dangerous to use this as an excuse to defend the indefensible positions and crimes committed by the Biden administration. Gaslighting people into defending and supporting the “lesser evil” has been used successfully by the Democratic party to prevent sustained progressive and ethical politics.

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            Where did you defend Trump? You defended him by suggesting that this “ethnic cleansing” plan of his is not a big deal like genocide is and suggested that it might even be a good thing because it will get Democrats to go against Zionism. Which is really fucking sick.

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              Again this is not to defend Trump. Ethnic cleansing is a tremendous and outrageous crime.

              You know it is possible for two (supposedly) opposed politicians to be bad?

              If you don’t accept that two opposed politicians can be bad at the same time, you would in turn defend the genocide as good, as Biden and Harris must be the good guys then. I know you don’t, so it would be nice if you give the same respect to me.

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                I do think so. What I don’t think is that the one you think is worse is actually worse because your argument for their being worse is built upon the idea that ethnic cleansing isn’t fucking horrific and might be a good thing.

                When you talk about the good aspects of ethnic cleansing, you’ve already lost the argument.

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                  I never said there to be good aspects of ethnic cleansing and that should be clear with me calling it a tremendous and horrific crime. But i think it cannot be used to defend genocide, as is the consequence of people claiming that things would be better if the same people remained in power that enabled the genocide.

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                    This you?

                    Now at least there is a slim chance that the Democrats start acknowledging Zionism as a political liability.

                    Because it has your username attached to it and that is very much saying there’s an upside to it.