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US: Muslim groups urge voters to back Jill Stein, Cornel West or other pro-Palestine candidates
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Voting for Harris is saying “we have no power, we give up”. It's allowing the Democratic Party to deteriorate further into an imperialist party. They're going to get so much worse if they come to believe they can kill unlimited Palestinians and face zero consequences.
And what would the Republican response be? The exact same, or even worse, they care even less about people in general unless they are millionaire donors.
Because no third party is winning this election, so those are the two actual results possible. Any other choice won't accomplish anything at all, no matter what you keep telling yourself. In the real world, at this time, voting for a 3rd party doesn't teach the major parties anything. It just throws your vote away. Which you are free to do, but don't think you're somehow better than others voting for a candidate that could actually be in office. 3rd party candidates can say whatever they want, they'll never have to actually follow through on any of it.
If Democrats win despite doing genocide, they will also get worse. It will prove they can kill as many people as they want and face zero consequences, and they will absolutely take full advantage and double down.
The Republican response could be worse, but as a result of Trump the Democrats would be forced to oppose them. I don't hold out hope that Democrats finally reject Israel but the pro-Palestinian caucus within the Party will become much stronger while the pro-Israel caucus weakens.
Do not forget Trump oversaw the largest protest movement in American history. With a little more organization and less reliance on spontaneity we can defeat him while he's still in office.
I want what you’re smoking.
If the rapist gets into office, say goodbye to Ukraine, goodbye to Palestine (remember, his kid is eyeing up property there already) and potentially goodbye to NATO. If the US leaves that, Putin will move further into Europe, and the question of “where will WWIII kick off?” stops being an automatic “in the Middle East”.
Giving 34 Felonies another go at the presidency would be disastrous. For a lot more then just the idiots that voted third party.
We currently have one in office, another issue Democrat voters rolled over on. MeWho?
If Trump wins he'll probably just negotiate a surrender where they get to annex Eastern Ukraine. I really doubt Russia has any interest in expanding farther. There's literally no point. They want a region of Ukraine that is Russian speaking, has a warm water sea port, is rich in natural gas, and is a breadbasket. Plus, a buffer zone against NATO.
They're not, like, cartoon villains.
Not everyone you dislike is Hitler.
The Republican response is irrelevant because we have no power to move them.
We may have some, however slight, power to move Democrats.
Seems like you're hinting that they should just accept that genocide is a fact of life for Muslims, instead of pressuring to change it. Easy to say when you aren't the target.
Stein has been polling ahead of Harris for months with Muslim-American voters, this isn't a new thing. Harris has had the time and information to pivot, and hasn't.
That's what they are doing. Promising unconditional support for Harris despite her pushing for continued genocide has no leverage.
Israel is a vassal state that depends on the support of the US. Absolving the US of the deeds of the vassal it provides weapons and munitions for is wrong, the deeds require the support of the US to continue.
Talk to Muslim-Americans. They aren't stupid, or lacking in critical thinking. The ones voting Green are doing so because they can't support genocide, and realize that witholding support is the only way to force any kind of hand.
They are standing their ground. Harris can reach out at any time she wants and change course.
I mean, correct. Do you disagree?
You sure? It's quite salient among actual Palestinians, if you'd for once listen to them, which cascades to Muslim-American voters which cascades to swing-state results and the overall US Federal election.
What are you even talking about? They are making concrete demands, one of them being an arms embargo which Kamala has said won't happen. The way a deal works is if the other side doesn't accept your offer you don't just cave and perform your side of the bargain. And judging by the fact that Kamala hasn't proposed anything other than the same vague support for a ceasefire Biden has shown they haven't even tried to push for anything else that might satisfy this constituency.
They tried. Nothing happened. Because to the Democrats supporting Israel is more important than winning in November.
Uh... They do. Muslims are one of the groups that have the most to lose from a Trump victory; it's just that Harris refuses to budge on the one thing making them unable to vote for her.
No Muslim country is helping Palestine.
Lebanon, Yemen, Iran. Read up.
You need to read more yourself. Yemen takes none. There are camps in Lebanon but the people remain stateless. And so on ... Just some basic googling will help you learn.
Do some more than basic googling.
Are you lying intentionally here or are you just completely ignorant?
There are, but they're all Iran-aligned, because the others have been bought out by the US. Read some history.