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Trans and disabled sounds like 2 checkmarks on the maga checklist.
It's a shame that you couldn't see that Gaza is the line. You decided genocide against innocent people wasn't a disqualifier and now you cry about your own impending doom while mocking your would be allies.
LMAO. You reap what you sow, fool.
Both MAGA and these so-called "allies" want me dead at the end of the day. We're just expected to starve to death when Amerikkka collapses or the people finally rise up.
I know full well how horrific what Israel is doing is. But there was no anti-genocide option on the ballot in 2024. There was no way that Jill Stein or whoever was going to get enough votes to win. Hell, most of Stein's supporters I talked to their best case scenario was getting to 5% for debate access and federal funds next go round. Any that I confronted about Gaza not having 4 years just shrugged and said some variation of "better than voting for a genocide" How exactly? Because they didn't have to sacrifice their ideological purity?
Antigenocide was absolutely on the ballot, but like the others you tell yourself the stories of impossibility that the duopoly wants you to believe.
So you chose the people that promised Roe v Wade would become law for 50+ years and everytime they have the ability to do so they shrug their shoulders and say "Meh."
Or maybe the same allies who allow the parliamentarian to arbitrarily shut down the will of the people.
Or maybe it's the same people who get you to "rally against the oligarchy" that will tell you to fall in line for the next corporate democrat who is actually a republican with a mask on.
Harris was the perfect candidate to illustrate the willing ineptitude of the democrats, and people looked at her like she was going to be some kind of savior.
Change doesn't happen by doing the same thing over and over again. The only difference Harris really offered from Trump was facade and rhetoric. The democrats had 4 years to do something to help people and motivate votes their way. They instead chose genocide. All the money they sent could have been used to help people like you and I, but they chose death.
They are not allies, and you will you never achieve any meaningful change or progress with them holding the reigns. They have proven this over and over again.
Yes, we already covered Democrats Bad. I agree. I hate them with a passion. Doesn't change that in a national electoral sense they are the only viable party at this moment to enact any kind of positive change. They are not and should never be the only option. But all people who talk like you do ever seem to offer as a solution is the "Glorious Revolution™" that hundreds of thousands if not millions of vulnerable people WILL die in because they never think about how those people are going to survive when food or medicine supply lines get disputed by fighting for the most fucking basic of examples.
They engage in this rhetoric because it's Magical Thinking that absolves them of having to do something they feel is icky and stains their ideological purity. It'll all be fixed when the Oppressed finally throw off their chains and eat the rich or whatever.
Revolution starts in the mind.