• @WraithGear
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    -166 months ago

    All these posts blaming protest voters and those who don’t vote are all generated because of the bad numbers from the primaries right? And the over all loss in confidence in Biden due to his willful protection of isreal right?

    Just got to remind people that they don’t really have a choice when the real voting happens. I think if you wanted to reach these voters these posts would be more detrimental then helpful.

    What would help is if Biden stopped doing the hated things.

    Or is this just a circle jerk reddit thing?

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      I think I was pretty fucking clear. I’m posting because it will save lives. Imagine how difficult it is to pull someone from a burning car, now imagine how difficult it would be to fill in the bubble next to Biden on a ballot - both actions will save lives.

      So why is it so fucking difficult to fill in that bubble?

      • @PopOfAfrica
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        -76 months ago

        I don’t know the inverse to that is also true. Joe Biden could throw progressive some more bones if it meant saving women’s lives.

        It’s bizarre to me that the onus is on us and not the candidate running for office to convince us.

      • @WraithGear
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        -86 months ago

        No you are not. This isn’t some revelation. That people just didn’t know that fracturing the Democratic parties vote hurts their chances against the republicans. You are making this post for selfish reasons.

        Like i said, demonizing people who find it hard to vote for someone protecting a genocide is for your own self gratification. Its not to change minds, its not to help Biden beat trump. Its solely to start a circle jerk to validate your decision to vote blue no matter who, and to quiet that little voice about how bad of a candidate he is

        You are doing no one any favors

        • @jumjummy
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          96 months ago

          I love how all these people who are suddenly vocal about the terrible situation in Gaza fall short of realizing that getting Trump in office would be catastrophically worse. With that logic, the only practical option is to vote for Biden in the general. A 3rd party vote is just throwing your vote away.

          The only conclusion I see here is these people are either disinformation agents, naive fools, or both.

        • @Wrench
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          46 months ago

          The idea isn’t to convert you. The idea is to help others see your arguments for what they are and not fall down the same nihilistic trap.

          • @[email protected]
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            36 months ago

            Also note that they ignore the Ukranian genocide out of habit. Bc it doesnt please daddy vlad to have it acknowledged.

      • @blazera
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        -96 months ago

        All those lives in Gaza saved.

        • @[email protected]
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          96 months ago

          Donald said “Israel should finish the job.” IDK how much more directly one can reference “Final Solution.” Sure, he will save the Palestinians.

          • @blazera
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            -46 months ago

            Okay. What does that have to do with Gaza already being obliterated? The killing already happened.

            • @[email protected]
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              66 months ago

              If it’s already a lost cause why are you bringing it up? Would “Final Solution” Donald have saved those lives? Or would he have done at least as poorly while also placing Christofascist judges onto federal benches?

              • @ripcord
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                66 months ago

                You’ll never get an answer, they’re arguing in bad faith.

                • @[email protected]
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                  46 months ago

                  Of course. I’m talking to other readers, really. No matter what I write, this person will be bothsidesing until Nov. 4th when they can don their red hat again.

            • @Cryophilia
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              36 months ago

              There’s lots of people still living in Gaza. There might not be if Trump wins.

              You really don’t see the difference between killing one person and killing ten people? Yeah, both are murder but one is worse.

              • @blazera
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                -16 months ago

                There absolutely wont be if Biden wins. Biden is president. For the entirety of the Gaza slaughter he has been. He has been personally supplying the weapons to Israel to do it. He is responsible for these deaths. Somehow, somehow you think palestinians will be saved by electing this man?

        • @madeinthebackseat
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          96 months ago

          And you somehow think voting for Trump, or giving him an advantage, will help in Gaza?

          He will put zero pressure on Netanyahu. He’ll likely openly support the effort and say something like “the Palestinians are just like the illegals crossing our border.”

          Voting isn’t picking someone you like, voting is choosing the person with the best chance of winning and creating policies aligned with your values and ideals. If you vote for somebody with zero chance of winning, you’re giving an advantage to the candidate who undermines your values being implemented in the long term.

          If we had ranked choice voting, or if the alternative candidate wasn’t openly threatening democracy, the rationale would be very different.

          The smart people tried to explain to the voters that Brexit would be an enormous failure, but the voters let their emotions get in the way of being rational, and now they’re suffering and wished they had voted differently.

          We have the potential for something much worse with Trump. Much worse. If you can’t see through your emotions to understand that if Trump is elected your vote may never matter again, I’m not sure you have the rationale capacity to be worth the time I spent typing this response.

          • @blazera
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            -56 months ago

            Help? You cant save a corpse. The hostage is dead, youve got no leverage anymore.

            • @Jimmyeatsausage
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              86 months ago

              Oh man, I missed the memo that every Palestinian died, and people with uteruses, and anyone who doesn’t identify as cishet, and everyone impacted by climate change, and everyone in Ukraine.

              Man, I’ve been wasting a lot of time and energy worrying about all those dead people.

            • @madeinthebackseat
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              16 months ago

              What are you going to actively do to change the future? What effort are you going to make to respect those unnecessary deaths?

              • @blazera
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                06 months ago

                Not reelect the same person responsible for this in the first place? The guy that was making executive orders to bypass congress to deliver weapons to Israel?

        • @[email protected]
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          96 months ago

          It fucking sucks and I strongly support the uncommitted movement and putting all the pressure we can on him about Gaza (see my post history if you want). Trump is going to be as bad or worse on Gaza, it fucking sucks but there isn’t a way you can vote to fix Gaza.

          • @blazera
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            -76 months ago

            Sure there is, elect someone other than Biden or Trump. Trumps gonna win because picking a viable candidate to run against trump keeps getting shot down

            • @ripcord
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              76 months ago

              Cool, figure something out to make that viable. Not voting, or voting 3rd party, isn’t going to change anything.

              In the meantime, back in the real world of today, be a grownup.

              • @blazera
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                -36 months ago

                you just vote for someone else. But you wont, and Trump will win because of it.

                • @ripcord
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                  26 months ago

                  Did you mean the rhetorical you, or was my comment not clear…?

                  • @blazera
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                    -16 months ago

                    Yeah no, im well aware of that self fulfilling prophecy. Youre not aware of the self fulfilling part. No one else can be viable because you wont let anyone be.

            • @[email protected]
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              46 months ago

              I wish we had - the time for that choice was the primaries. At this point the choice is Biden or Trump.

              • @blazera
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                16 months ago

                we didnt really have primaries. the only choice we get is in november.

                • @[email protected]
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                  26 months ago

                  We did - it’s just that nobody in the establishment wants to run against an incumbent president. You almost certainly had the opportunity to vote for Marianne Williamson though.

                  • @blazera
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                    06 months ago

                    Nope, not on the primary ballot in my state