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WE HAVE ACTUAL RIGHT WING WAR CRIMINALS DOING WAR CRIMES RIGHT NOW, BUT YES, PLEASE YELL AT THE ONE PERSON WHO HAS ABSOLUTELY FUCKALL TO DO WITH IT AFTER ALL OF YOU TOLD HER THE CURRENT WAR CRIMINALS WILL DO A BETTER JOB.
I highly doubt Kamala would be using $100k missiles to kill venezuelan fisherman.
The woman who advocated for "the most lethal fighting force in the world" and boasted of Liz Cheneys support? Yeah she would have just gotten everything in place for the next republican to do instead. Like Biden did with the border camps and ICE.
Oh don't get me wrong, shed have found ways to be evil, I just don't think she'd specifically do that.
You're fine with trading the lives of innocent palestinians to maintain your own comfort and security, you deserve Trump and worse
Lol, no, I'm certainly not. I do what I can within my limited means although I'm sure I could do more. Sadly, just by virtue of voting, I've done more than the majority of my countrymen but I certainly am no paragon of virtue.
I am a realist though. Realistically the Palestinian people would have been better off, or at the least not worse off, with a Harris administration at the helm.
Regardless, the diplomacy would have been carried out by the statesmen in the background if she was in office or Trump - Trump just comes with massive baggage.
"Realistically I had no choice but to be a morally bankrupt coward" lol fuck off
Geez, calling me a morally bankrupt coward is just a tad bit mean, don't ya know? Also doesn't really address the actual real world we're in where we are voting on an office which is making decisions that go far beyond only the tiny part of the world that is Israel/Palestine.
Like I don't know how naive and narrow minded one has to be to think a world with Trump in charge of the USA is better than the alternative.
Like, obviously, if I could waive a magic wand I'd change a whole fuckpile of stuff about our government and our system of living as a whole. Unfortunately, presumably, much like yourself, I'm not magic.
A lot of our friends here have only a mass-media understanding of American politics. And given that mass media is utterly terrible, it’s . . . a crooked understanding.
I don't owe civility to anyone making excuses for the fucking democrats, nothing about the "real world" requires you to accept their complicity in genocide you decided to do that shit on your own
Lol you're such a silly goose.
I wish these relevant sourced arguments could bring some around, but they won’t in large part because many of these comments are not American voters and just want to vent.
Just like we did when we were kids. Except we live here and we vote.
I was raised republican and you would be even more surprised how completely ineffective this would have been on me in the past. The people that continue to vote republican are so much dumber than you realize. Like find a source that disagrees with them, so they go find new source type dumb.
No, you were just denying and downplaying the genocide when it was your team doing it
Trump is the same for Palestine, he's worse for you and that's the only part you give a shit about
objectively wrong
Anything's possible when you make shit up
Be fair. Centrists were willing to sacrifice everyone's comfort and stability as long as they didn't have to tell netanyahu no.
Lol you're not wrong
Delusional
You.
Nah, Netanyahu makes me ashamed of my Jewish heritage, the whole state of Israel and what it has been doing really does tbh. They're probably literally making people antisemitic since they try to conflate that with being anti Israel even though it's squarely separate.
Would be like saying people criticizing the USA are anti Christian or something along those lines.
Anyways, no, I think you know the right answer is Trump.
Him too. But he's not on this thread being a simp for netanyahu. You are.
Nobody is simping for Netanyahu I just would prefer a world where Harris won and Trump lost. Part of the reason Harris lost was people not voting for the Dem candidate and actively helping a person who has an even worse track record on Israeli-Palestinian relations win the office of the president.
It makes no sense. It's like not voting to have a golf ball put up your ass so the pineapple can get shoved up there instead.
then you should be upset that she supported genocide, Instead you're mad at the people who told you she would lose if she supported genocide.
Because they were right.
it was better to abstain from voting or vote 3rd party than vote Harris because the Biden admin supported Israel because it legitimized the electoral system without affecting the outcome.
why is this homophobic trope still being played like it's a major own of fascists??
Please tell me in what ways the Trump admin was worse than the Biden admin on Palestine. Like an actual example.
I'm fairly certain that Biden never proposed bulldozing the Gaza Strip and building his own resort on it.
I'm fairly certain the president of the worlds largest settler colonial empire knew what its pet settler colony was planning on doing after the genocide.
Edit: bulldozers where in gaza pretty much day one
But did he propose it? Did he actually go up and say he wants Gaza cleared out with a Biden resort in its place? Did he share an AI video of gaudy gold statues and bikini clad women on the beach?
I agree that Biden's stance on Israel/Palestine was terrible but Trump is clearly doing and saying these things out of greed and personal enrichment without any regard for human rights.
Edit: not entertaining any more replies from bad faith arguments. I agree with the fundamental truth that Biden is a centrist and had a large part in Trump becoming president again but the additional minutae re: Gaza is what foreign actors like Russia really want most of all - to splinter the left even more than it already is. We can't let perfection get in the way of progress. We'll just continue to sit here and bicker amongst each other while Republicans continue to steamroll everyone, including Palestinians.
So your problem is merely the optics? That biden had better optics for his support of genocide? That makes him better how??
Like he knew fully well what the endgame was and didn't flinch, but I guess he wasn't as gauche as boasting about how he personally profits from it...
...Man, if I didn't know better I'd assume this post was satire.
Obviously you don’t understand that liberal means a terrible thing in other countries. Or, so I am reliably informed here. Regularly. Like, constantly.
It means "genocidal monster" here now.
It means a terrible thing in every country
IF YOU THINK TYPING IN ALL CAPS WILL MAKE PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOU, YOU ARE INCORRECT.
AND YOU SAY HARRIS WAS THE "ONE PERSON" HUH. I DONT THINK YOU COUNT VERY WELL.
Yup. These are the chucklefucks who handed Trump the presidency. Now they want to scream at everyone else, but themselves. Embarrassing.