• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The only way to “punish” the Democrats at the time this post was written was to allow Trump to be elected. The OP was advocating that Americans attempt to stop a genocide by performing an action that would make the genocide worse. There were only two candidates in the race with even the remotest chance of winning: Harris and Trump. If the poster hoped Harris would lose then she hoped Trump would win.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      The only way to “punish” the Democrats at the time this post was written was to allow Trump to be elected.

      Which is absurd. Centrists don’t see a continuation of their only policy as a loss. They see it as an opportunity to blame the left and nothing else.

    • All Ice In Chains@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Ah, the old false narrative of binary choice. Fun fact: You can vote for anyone, even if they’re not displayed (via write-in). Yeah, statistically anyone other than the anointed two will probably lose, unless enough people make the same decision, which actually does exist as a possibility because the two parties did not write the rules of reality, they just influenced things in their favor.

      But of course, the Democrats can never fail, they can only be failed. Republicans fear their constituents, democrats hate theirs.

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        3 months ago

        It definitely wasn’t doing the people of Gaza a favor, but it sure as hell was not giving bibi any more impunity slaughtering civilians.

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            3 months ago

            I was pretty pro-Kamala during 2024, but I do not recall that. I recall a Palestinian-American speaker being shut out of the DNC because of her opinion on how a country we were financially supporting was murdering her family. I recall Kamala saying after the election that she wanted to speak out against Israel’s genocide, but part of the deal to get Biden to step down was to stay silent. I can for sure day that she would have tried to return to the status quo; a strained and sustained dispute in the West Bank. I think saying for sure that she was standing up to Bibi, or would have taken decisve action against Israel does not match the facts or pattern of behavior.