those comments were made after the election and things did change. they are not evidence those positions were held prior to the election. you're just wrong
I can't speak for others. I was hoping their candidate would back off of supporting Israel and their sitting president would follow suit. it didn't happen so I don't know why you'd think I or anyone else would be pleased, or think it worked, or that that Democrats aren't responsible for their own failures
and the rest of the thread has been bickering about whether, in fact, they made that up. the accusation is that, since the election, the people opposed to genocide who wanted to exert electoral pressure, who were also people who were pretending only democrats could have responsibility AND that trump could not be worse, have since disappeared. i know that's a lot of commas. lets make this a bit clearer:
the accusation is that
there are people who
(a)oppose genocide
(b)wanted to exert electoral pressure on the democrats
(c)were pretending only democrats could have responsibility
(d)believed that trump could not be worse
and that those people
(e)disappeared after the election.
what you provided was evidence that, in fact, those people don't exist, and to the extent that people who met criteria a-c may have existed (it's still not clear they held this belief prior to the election), they did not, also fulfill criteria (e).
so despite your aptitude for verbosity and markdown syntax, your comment is, also, not evidence.
edit: i made a few syntactic edits to this, but as i'm now reading it for the 12th time or so, i don't actually think we have evidence of anyone fulfilling criteria c in addition to a and b.
but cutting a kid off from their only known support system and jailing the abuser doesn't serve the kid or society, on balance. I want to fix the problem, but calling the cops just doesn't look like a fix to me.
I watched my dad get cuffed and taken away and he's an asshole but that didnt fix the problem. I leaned on my mom, moved in with my grandma, and I'm better for it. it's not clear this kid has an extended network that can help them make it better.
being in jail and paying fines didn't help my dad. the biggest best change I saw from him came from explaining the dsm npd diagnosis to him.
I want this kid to get help, but I don't think the cops are it.
those comments were made after the election and things did change. they are not evidence those positions were held prior to the election. you're just wrong