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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396125

Stephen Starr in Hamtramck, Michigan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 11.00 EDT

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[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 day ago

What is more important than supporting and normalizing genocide?

[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Preventing someone from gaining power who will continue genocide, find new targets for genocide, and turn the country into a dictatorship? Choosing the lesser of two evils is the way it works. If you want the greater of two evils then it’s your choice to not participate.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago

Preventing someone from gaining power who will continue genocide

There could not be a candidate this describes more than Harris. You know, from the Biden-Harris administration behind the genocide happening right now. The one supplying bombs to burn refugee children alive. Have you heard their screams?

I am told Democratic voters are empathetic and strategic. But all I see is racist normalization of genocide and toeing the party line.

find new targets for genocide

That's a Dem specialty! They have a knack for stoking and supporting genocides. Heck, Obama got one started in Yemen. Even NGOs were saying a vhikd was killed every minute for years by this. Why do you think they are so resilient and steadfast against this genocide and Western attempts to free up Zionist shipping lanes? Did you even know what was done to Yemen?

and turn the country into a dictatorship?

Given that the current "system" has you shilling for genocide you should already question whether you live in a democracy.

Though all of this lesser evilism is also premised on nobody remembering that Trump was already president for 4 years and it was basically the same shot as under Biden. In fact, Biden came in from the right, normalizing the pandemic and slashing benefits for the public, then did the usual, "I'm just a widdle president I can't do nothin'" act when the SC overturned Roe v. Wade. Ah, but now that there is a genocide to support, unlimited billions for Israel, don't worry he can bypass Congress. Do you see how the system functions? Do you feel enfranchised? How much less enfranchised were you under Trump?

They're on the same team. Why do you think Harris' team is celebrate endorsements from Republican war criminals? A human that cared would spit in their faces and announce charges. You are not provided with such an option for your mainstream party "choices". They laugh at their committed voters, I've seen it in person.

Choosing the lesser of two evils is the way it works. If you want the greater of two evils then it’s your choice to not participate.

No, that's the way you are told it works by your masters so that you work for them instead of against them. You'll notice that I am not voting for any genociders. Did I break reality!? Or just deviate from a focus group-tested party talking point?

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

It's like you're mentally incapable of reading a comment and responding to the words in it.

[-] TheOubliette@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago

I responded directly to what they said re: there being multiple issues they want to weigh. That was their response up me challenging complicity in genocide and asking why the person I was responding to was sheepdogging for genociders. They are trying yo be euphemistic and retreat to the thought-terminsting clichés that reinforce complicity in genocide, which also means avoiding even using the word. So I recontextualized their attempt to decontextualize while still directly addressing it.

Please feel free to tell me which specific parts you would like to see addressed or responded to. I certainly already replied to the first sentence, which was the main point of deflection.

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