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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 100 points 3 days ago

Single-issue voters are ignorant to begin with, but failing to help stop another Trump presidency isn't the moral high ground. If you're in that group there's no point polishing your halo, because you are shitting on it.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

It's the equivalent of "I can't save everyone, so I'll doom them instead!"

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I agree with Michael Moore's theory that this was why many people voted for Trump in 2016. They felt ignored and powerless, so they said okay here, I'll vote for this asshole, see how you like that! It was an expensive lesson that I don't think the Democratic party has really paid attention to. Their response was to rethink their campaign strategies - many of them probably blamed their loss on trying to elect a woman for President - so they regrouped and managed to get Biden elected. But he didn't put any bold ideas forward. All he really did was be a Democrat in the White House instead of a Republican. I don't feel like Kamala Harris is playing that game. She really does want to move forward in a big way and not go back.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So genocide is a single issue to you, like school vouchers or fema funding? I think that says a lot about you. None of it good.

edit: and please, downvote away if you dont agree, But notice how close the election is and how many upvotes this viewpoint has. 28 up to 70 down is what I see at this point. If Harris loses it will be because she flatly ignored this ~30% of of Dem voters.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

What part of "Trump is actively sabotaging peace talks" do you not understand?

Please, refer to this chart -

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

So genocide is a single issue to you, like school vouchers or fema funding?

Hey now. Vote for Kamala and you can get genocide, school privatization, and more underfunded climate disasters. You don't have to choose.

Dems of 2024 have fully ingested the Republican platform of 2004. That's why the Cheneys are campaigning for the Harris ticket.

[-] prole 9 points 1 day ago

This shit is so fucking dishonest. Go away.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Cheney is campaigning for Harris because Trump is so bad that even the Devil says "Wow, that's fucked up"

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately, the switch is broken and everyone on that top track is getting railroaded no matter who wins.

Harris has no actual plan to protect any of the above. No more than Biden or Obama did.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Oh yes, I remember living in North Carolina and when Pat McCory's cruelty to transpeople lead to him getting voted out, Governor Cooper just made it even worse because he thought it was funny...

No wait he actually expanded healthcare access for transpeople and repealed the bathroom laws.

Are you completely ignorant of the reality of the situation or are you intentionally trying to depress the Leftist voting block with doomer talk?

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[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I mean its likely trump will continue the genocide for people who managed to flee to the US by revoking the legal status of refugees given he seems to think the word "palestinian" means "terrorist"

The cruel calculus is that Netanyahu wants trump to win.

Do you hold your nose and vote Harris to deny Netanyahu another victory or do you roll over entirely for Netanyahu and let him have an assistant in genocide with Trump? What is the lesser of two evils here?

Netanyahu, at least, will be thrilled to hear palestinians are not voting for Kamala because of him.

[-] sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I mean its likely trump will continue the genocide for people who managed to flee to the US by revoking the legal status of refugees given he seems to think the word “palestinian” means “terrorist”

We already almost completely deny them. The US has accepted less than 600 Palestinians in the last decade. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/republicans-want-ban-palestinian-refugees-already-hard-get-in-us-rcna120892

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