• DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    so long as trump, bibi, putin, and their sycophants are in power, pretty much every man woman and child in gaza is living on borrowed time.

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    I find it deeply disturbing that when I opened the comment section of a post discussing 400 (now over 700) dead people, mostly innocent children, men, and women, in less than 48 hours, the first reaction was to blame “Arabs,” “Muslims,” “Tankies,” “Leftists,” and “Pro-Palestinians,” using these minority communities as tokens.

    This is a glaring display f hypocrisy, these groups are portrayed in a positive light when it benefits politically, only to be thrown under the bus when they are no longer useful…

    Any human capable of experiencing empathy would have first reacted with disgust and indignation at the unfolding genocide, rather than resorting to scapegoating and divisive rhetoric, but it may also not be organic comments, what do I know…

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        Unfortunately it isn’t. When I have some time I call these things out and advocate because I think it’s important that we do not fall into this force feed normalization of cruelty.

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            Why exactly are you going after this person? No one but the fascists are interested in that. So why don’t you keep --whatever your complaints are about-- to yourself.

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              Per your original comment, people are blaming minorities

              Instead of saying they should be shocked, you should refute them

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                Indeed, it was mostly my first reaction and I should have added more arguments as to why I was thinking this way, I guess the fact that I was answering what I deem a dishonest and low-effort deflection made me react this way.

                Though, I did follow up on multiple instances in this comment section about my opinion on the matter and explained it.

                Edit: My bad, It wasn’t on this particular post I did not pay enough attention on where I said what. If you are interested in my POV you can find it on my profile.

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      I find it deeply disturbing that when I opened the comment section of a post discussing 400 (now over 700) dead people, mostly innocent children, men, and women, in less than 48 hours, the first reaction was to blame “Arabs,” “Muslims,” “Tankies,” “Leftists,” and “Pro-Palestinians,” using these minority communities as tokens.

      Tankies are not “minority groups”…

      This is a glaring display f hypocrisy, these groups are portrayed in a positive light only when it benefits politically, only to be thrown under the bus when they are no longer useful…

      There is no hypocrisy. Arabs and Muslims are portrayed in a positive light to counter the American far right’s frothing hatred of them, that was the core reason.

      Any human capable of experiencing empathy would have first reacted with disgust and indignation at the unfolding genocide, rather than resorting to scapegoating and divisive rhetoric, but it may also not be organic comments, what do I know…

      “divisive rhetoric” you sound like a fucking centrist.

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        1. I may have used the wrong word but I think you understood what I meant. It’s not an essay, I was displaying the fact that some minority opinions and certain groups of individuals get targeted because they are easy target that helps sway the blame away.

        2. About your second point, I don’t think it’s correct or else we wouldn’t be reading the gloating in the comments I’m targeting.

        3. I am not and will never be a centrist nor a republican, but I will criticize what I deem injustice, bad policies, weak strategies (like ostracizing more of your voter base to make them numb)… etc

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    The problem with you yanks is that you’re too far up your own asses. How predictable is it that the whole discussion under this post is about your last election. Nobody cares any more. Your country is lead by a fascist doing fascist things to you and abroad. And all you do is bicker about what happened half a year ago. Your country is wading in the waters of Rubicon, what are you going to do NOW about it?

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      Yeah because it’s impossible to talk about two things at the same time.

      What good has analyzing our past decisions and their consequences ever been for us? /s

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      what are you going to do NOW about it?

      This mess isn’t on some of us. Some of us tried very hard to prevent this outcome and now suddenly we’re expected to clean up other people’s fucking mess.

      Nah, fuck that.

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        You should just ask the AIPAC zionists this question and not us. We take orders from them.

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            ah sorry man. I replied to the wrong person. I have failed, and feel shame. The reply was for @acargitz when he said:

            Your country is wading in the waters of Rubicon, what are you going to do NOW about it?

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              Are you seriously trying to I pull a “it’s the Jews’ fault” right now?

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      When focusing on the Middle East, it isn’t a “Trump” issue… by only looking at the last 30 years, it becomes exceptionally obvious that it’s an American problem.

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      The US has been green-lighting genocide in the Middle East for decades. Party A only seems to notice when Party B takes over the White House. But this has been an ongoing horror story going back to Operation Ajax and the dismantling of the Egyptian democracy following the death of Gamal Nasser, largely through collaboration between the CIA, MI5, and the Mossad.

      His base supporters don’t really know or care about the details, because they’re too invested in doing white nationalism at home. His opponents only seem to care about the genocide as far as it allows them to express racist sentiments toward Arab-Americans and other Muslim groups for being insufficiently enthusiastically liberal. His bourgeois supporters recognize genocide as a get-rich-quick scheme for their failsons and faildaughters.

      This bloodshed won’t end before the western military occupiers are removed from the region. And I doubt I’ll see that happen in my lifetime.

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    lol. I commented on a post saying that Harris would likely be handling the situation better right now, and I got told by one of the pro-Palestine crazies that they hope my family gets murdered…

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      Harris would have said not to do it while continuing to supply them with weapons.

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      Whatever they call themselves they are not pro-Palestine. I don’t buy it. Maybe they’re anti-Israel, but they ain’t pro-Palestine.

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      I have to believe the pro-Palestine crazies who call Harris voters Nazis are either Russian trolls or still too ashamed to admit they were conned into voting for Palestine’s complete destruction.

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        voting for Palestine’s complete destruction.

        Gaza was already destroyed on your boy Biden’s watch.

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          Interesting. Weird that Israel is threatening its full destruction now instead of celebrating the fact it happened at least 3 months ago. Those genociders do be crazy.

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      I had conversations with many an accelerationist who supported Trump over Harris on Gaza. Pretty sure they were just full of shit and spreading misinformation.

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        I had conversations with many an accelerationist who supported Trump

        uh huh, sure you did.

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          When people were actively arguing that Dems would be worse than Trump on Gaza they were either stupid or accelerationists. Especially considering these are self proclaimed “leftists” who apparently think Trump will usher in a tankie uprising. Not them of course, social media is full on revolutionary activism so they won’t be doing anything.

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            So tell me, did genocide and the destruction of 92% of the housing in Gaza happen on Bidens watch or not?

            < and heres the part where you downvote and run away, or reply angrily without answering this question>

            Its always the same with you centrists/zionist war ciminals.

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              The fact that you couldn’t see that Trump would be inarguably worse and/or didn’t care is why Palestine is going to wiped off the map and be but a footnote in history.

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                Theres that avoidance to acknowledge reality that I predicted.

                So this stuff we argue about evidently has nothing to do with the fact that Biden could have stopped this and didnt. And Harris (with zionist funding, a zionist husband, zionist campaign advisors) promised to continue the genocide with no changes, same as trump. Pressuring Biden/Harris to change during the election was never on your radar was it. You hoped Harris would win and would… not do what he said she’d do? and just throw that sweet sweet AIPAC money away? Because you believe politicians care what the people think after the election happens?

                Seems like wishful thinking to me. Seems like the only time we have leverage as voters is during the election. And even then its up to our candidate to listen to the data and act on it.

                The way I see it, Biden started a genocide, Trump and Harris both have pledged to continue it. Biden could have stopped it at any time. So could Harris. And we had a time-bounded opportunity to pressure Biden/Harris to change but you lot were too scared to take it. I applied what pressure I could so evidently this entire genocide is my fault, does that sum up your assertions here?

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      And you would understand why if you had any kind of human decency.

      People are mourning their dead and you come with your petty domestic political argument? How tone deaf can you be?

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        Yeah I didn’t get the whole “murder your family” part

        You’re really doing your part yelling at a bunch of internet strangers with no control over the situation. Congrats!

        If it’s so easy to fix, what are you doing to make things better?

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            And I voted for Harris, who at least would’ve let protesters be and not arrest them. Could’ve had a chance with her once she got away from Biden. Biden admin initiated the ceasefire that everyone is clamoring about anyways.

            But the other idiots here voted for Trump. Give him a year or so and it’ll be worse than it ever was under Biden. He’ll build a golf course over in Gaza as a cherry on top for you.

            And before your dumbass says it, I never voted for Biden. Voted for Bernie in 2016 and 2020 and he def would’ve been the guy to settle things down.

            Moron.

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                Ah yes let me single-handedly take down the fascist regime that has taken over our govt.

                Dumbass

                Edit: it’s hilarious it seems you made this account solely to yell at people you think support genocide. Why don’t you get a plane ticket and come over and do something about it if you’re so inclined? You’re a useless keyboard warrior

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                  I don’t take planes. I’m not a scumbag polluters.

                  LMAO what a bunch of idiot. Hollywood burned and they still take planes.

                  We should nuke the US

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    I would like ANYONE to stick a camera into the face of these Arab and Muslim leaders who told their followers to help get trump elected because they didn’t think Joe Biden was acting fast enough or giving them the attention they wanted and ask them if their feelings are still hurt with news like this.

    I’m sure the people of Gaza are so pleased with them and their stupidity

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      I love how the people that told you a year ago to shut up about Gaza because it was hurting Biden are now trying to guilt trip you about Gaza

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      My friend in lebannon got widowed last year.

      Who was in power in the US then?

      Americana trying to defend thair country and leaders are making my blood boil. We know, you guys can do even worse, it does not excuse the bad.

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      "Ah yes all those dead arabs happened because of the arabs.

      They brought it on themselves really. What do you mean i’m a genocide supporter?"

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      BuT dOn’T vOtE fOr GeNoCiDe JoE!!1!1! ThE PrIcE Of EgGS!1!1!

      And the trump admin wants to build seaside resorts in the purged Gaza then told us to STFu about eggs while the price more than doubled.

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        Democrats a year ago: Shut up about Gaza! there is no genocide, you are just being dramatic.

        Democrats now: Ohh, poor gaza, why aren’t you doing anything about them? This is all your fault!!!

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          TF rock you been under? I have yet to encounter a dem, especially here, who hasn’t called Gaza some version of an open-air concentration camp run by Israel. Yeah, elected tools softballed the F out of it, but here you are… “DeMs BaD!1!1”. Same old shit. Pound sand with your appeal to hypocrisy.

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            “I have yet to encounter a dem, especially here, who hasn’t called Gaza some version of an open-air concentration camp”

            You weren’t paying enough attention then.

            Your average democrat was firmly on Israel’s side until it became politically convenient for them to pretend they always cared about Palestine.

            Edit:

            “Pound sand with your appeal to hypocrisy.”

            Not my fault democrats are hypocrites.

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        There are far too many people on this earth who can only imagine black and white.

        They can’t imagine you can have bad and you can have much worse and they are not the same thing.

        Edit - in case the downvote wasn’t someone who voted trump to “save Palestine”, my point is you don’t save someone from bad by giving them worse. Which we did.

        And not “voting for bad” while allowing worse is performative privilege.

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        I sure hope everyone who said “Genocide Joe” and “Kamala is a cop” sleeps well every night. Also those 100,000 Dem protest voters in Michigan.

        You did it guys, you saved Gaza.

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      Both Trump and Biden/Harris are terrible choices for Palestine. Having said that, count the number of Palestinian casualties under Biden and the number of Palestinian casualties under Trump. I’ll wait.

      Also count the number of weeks of ceasefire brokered by Trump vs Biden.

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        The number of death in the last 3 month is comparable to the number of deaths in the last 4 years, is that what you are saying?

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          No, it is not comparable in any way shape or form. There have been hundreds of thousand of casualties under Biden’s presidency.

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          A couple months ago when his envoy, Steve Witkoff, made Netanyahu meet him during Shabbat despite Netanyahu’s objections, and pressured him to accept the ceasefire deal.

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            Rofl that was JOE BIDEN’S ceasefire deal, Trump just happened to take office right before it was finalized.

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              Joe Biden presented the deal in May 2024 and Netanyahu quickly rejected it. It’s only when Steve Witkoff, Trump’s envoy, forced Netanyahu to meet during Shabbat and pressured him to take the deal that it the ceasefire actually happened, shortly before Trump’s inauguration.

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                  I don’t care if someone who insults me believes me or not.

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                  Biden held all the cards, he could’ve gotten a ceasefire before the election if he had put conditions on arms transfers but he didn’t do that, that was his choice.

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      Where are the many leaders that, deciding to withhold support from Biden and the Democrats, sought to INCREASE support for Trump? I don’t see them.

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        Reducing support for one candidate lowers the threshold for the other to win, so staying home absolutely supports Trump, same with voting third party thanks to our wonderful system here

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    Wow, the Gazan civilians must have done something really serious to merit being attacked like this, ending the cease fire…

    Right? Um… right? /s

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      It’s absolutely giving horrible what’s happened and also absolutely predictable this type of behavior from Trump happened.

      It’s just so extremely frustrating and sad.

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      if the brave hamas freedom fighters weren’t hiding behind them with the hostages using the gazans as human shields it would be easier

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        You’re still holding that line? Are you not afraid of the repraisal?

        I mean genocide apologia is a crime. Or it should be at least

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          As a terrorism enjoyer maybe you can explain hamas ongoing Oct 7th strategy

          Martyring tens of thousands and another attempt at the genocide of the Jews is very in keeping with their ideology

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            Shut the fuck up you dishonest scum. The 7th of OctObeR was a trap with bullcrap propaganda ready to blow off. Remember those decapitated babies or those so-called rape victims nobody could ever to, especially not independant UN investigators?

            If you define terrorism as standing against oppression, then yes, i’m a gleeful terrorist. Like Mandela or mlk, the irish liberation movement and the people who freed algeria

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        The people in Gaza survived a lot better than I predicted ; but I think the mortality from all causes is huge, under reported and still minimized.

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    The ceasefire was the only positive thing going on during these past two months. This is fucked up!

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        I see you are the kind of person to say “the best time to start learning is five years ago, so I won’t start now”

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          i think the ceasefire was a good idea when the hostages were alive, 15 months ago, when Biden was president…not before "rump made sure no ceesefires would happen in defiance of the Logan act…now come back with something convincing

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            Oh so you’re just totally on board with the genocide and ethnic cleansing operation of 2 million people in Gaza now. Very cool and normal.

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              Oh so you’re just totally on board with the genocide and ethnic cleansing operation of 2 million people in Gaza now.

              Like they weren’t on board then too.

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                Does it feel good to talk shit from a Russian bunker? What are you even here for? Lol ur a funni guy.

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            i see the downvoters think "rumps handling of the situation is bettter

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    I don’t care who gets bitchy over this;

    America chose bald faced fascism and genocide, over the chance to end genocide and not-fascism.

    Suck eggs, whenever you can save up for them. The stay-at-homes are just as guilty.

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      America chose bald faced fascism and genocide, over the chance to end genocide and not-fascism.

      There was no chance under biden or harris that the genocide would end without running to completion. None. They’re both centrists, and genocide is the only policy I’ve never seen a centrist abandon.

      Voted harris but refuse to carry water for genocide supporters.

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        One of the parties is against the genocide in Ukraine. Funny how you people always forget about that one. Bit inconvenient for your narrative huh

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          What do you mean by “you people”?

          Because in another recent discussion we had, you called me a russian, had that comment removed by the mods, and then whined about how unfairly you were being treated by the complicit mods for enforcing their rules.

          This sure looks like you’re trying to call me a russian again without saying it outright.

          We should have used all the resources that we wasted supplying the genocide that centrists dearly love in Gaza and used them to shore up Ukraine. Instead, netanyahu got his weapons no questions asked, while Ukraine had to wait for democrats to play stupid games with immigration bills first before getting around to the tiresome obligation of making a token gesture toward preventing putin from steamrolling Europe.

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      Suck eggs = children are dying and I’m gloating over it.

      Anything to own the lefties though, eh.

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      Sorry your blue team proto-fascists couldn’t contain their disgusting bloodthirst enough to win the election from the red team fascists. Think outside of this bullshit electoralist thinking for just a second.

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          What makes you think there was a non zero chance with Harris? Anything she said or did? Because I got no indication from her campaign that there was any chance she’d end it

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          Well, that’s what happened and now you get extra genocide plus total capitulation to russia

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            If all third party voters swapped to Harris, she still would have lost. Vote shaming doesn’t work and it’s especially gross when it wouldn’t even matter.

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              Based on the polls I saw, if 3rd party voters had voted Harris she would have won. Just going from memory, I’ll have to look it up.

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          That was the false sense of superiority choice, not the end genocide choice.

          You have to consider the choices’ actual effects on the world.

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            Making the correct choice has nothing to do with feeling better than others, it simply is the correct thing to do.

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                If dead people had something to say i don’t think they would be happy about the parties that backed their genocide

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                  Yeah man, do whatever you can to absolve your inaction. I bet they appreciate it. Because if Harris was president and this attack did not happen then I assume you’re pretty culpable. But hey- you “followed your conscience.” Great stuff.

                  I tell people to grow up all the time. Realize the world isn’t perfect but sometimes you gotta make dirty decisions to bring about the greater good. But you’d rather feel smug than give a shit and actually have to make a hard decision. Hopefully you’re just young and have time to grow. Honestly.

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                There’s a big amount of red voters unhappy with trump but that voted for him because in their eyes he’s “lesser evil” than blue and because “there’s no alternative”.

                Once a third party gain enough traction to break the narrative that only red or blue can win it will be a landslide. In europe third parties wins all the time.

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                  What I mean is that Republicans are going to do everything they can to stop or rig elections so they don’t have electoral consequences for Trump. Party organizing is going to need to take place outside of electoralism.

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    …yet i was told that the biden genocide was somehow worse…cake and eat it shit…

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        I was told that protest voting would save Gaza

        Nothing was going to save Gaza. That didn’t mean we needed to continue being complicit. But at least centrists didn’t have to consider abandoning netanyahu.

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        Unsupporting the red and blue party is the correct thing to do and what will ultimately lead to a positive change. The duopoly party narrative is holding on a really thin line because everyone is unsatisfied on both sides, in europe third parties win plenty of times.

        If you throw your trash out of the window that isn’t going to change world pollution but you don’t do that because we live in a society and everyone is supposed to do his part.

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          The way US elections work it’s mathematically impossible to have a viable 3rd party. We can’t just do it like Europe.

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              Most US elections, in particular the Presidential one, are first past the post and winner take all. There’s no coalitions or anything. Only one party can win. If the Democrats, for example, split into a Moderates and a Progressives party, the election landscape will go from this:

              • Democrats ~50%

              • Republicans ~50%

              To this:

              • Moderates ~30%

              • Progressives ~20%

              • Republicans ~50%

              And Republicans are guaranteed a win. The Republicans don’t win 50% of the government, they get the whole government. Progressives and Moderates get nothing. The only possible way to defeat the Republicans is by combining the Progressives and Moderates into a single party.

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                  The third party. And if the Democrats and Republicans ever want to be viable again, they’ll have to join with each other or with the 3rd party, depending on which is closer ideologically. So we’re back to 2 parties.

                  And by the way, support for any 3rd parties in the US is currently at less than 5%, nowhere close to the >50‰ required to make this scenario plausible. It has happened before, though not in the last 150 years, usually with the total collapse of one of the two parties. Andrew Jackson personally caused the collapse of the existing parties by basically turning them into pro-Jackson and anti-Jackson parties. And then a few decades later the anti-Jackson party itself completely split over the question of slavery, and then the Civil War created the two parties we have today, Democrats and Republicans. The two parties almost completely swapped supporters and positions in the 1960s due to Nixon’s “Southern Strategy”, but the two ideological groups of voters have been the same since the mid-1800s even though they’ve changed names.

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      Biden’s help killed more at this time, but Trump should catch up by late summer or early autumn this year. Then we can say Trump killed more than Biden.

      But Trumps crimes elsewhere will eclipse this grim milestone , and I doubt most commentators here will remark on that when it happens

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            I have this idea for a site like a high score thing, where you could (with citations provided) the kill total of world leaders. See how Stalin, Hitler and Mao stack up to Nixon, Bush, Clinton and Trump.

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              We’d have to adjust for population growth. Genghis Khan is probably still the reigning genocide champ.

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              Where it gets difficult to estimate is when people die many years later from the effects.

              Even hurricanes are only recently understood to be a huge cause of mortality over a decade later. So where does one draw the line? When support structures in a society are destroyed by nature or man things happen years later.

              And then one had to decide how many a leader is directly responsible for, and how many subordinates acting on their own did.

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      What a strawman of an argument you’ve created. That was never an argument being made, it was that genocide wouldn’t be any worse because genocide is genocide.

      And how is this at all different from any of the strikes Biden agreed on that resulted in mass deaths?

      Oh and the cake you’re laughing about? Those are children’s lives. Get some perspective and stop reveling in misery.

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        because genocide is genocide.

        That’s dumb. Killing more people is worse than killing fewer.

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          That’s awfully disrespectful for the people who lost relatives before Trump got elected.

          You’re a salty scumbag and you deserved to lose

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          It’s more dumb to think killing everyone is any different to killing everyone.

          Genocide brings about the death of the whole cultural group.

          There is no little or big genocide, it is all genocide.

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            Ok, then by your definition there hasn’t BEEN any genocide because they’re not literally all dead yet, so why are you complaining at all,

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                  Yeah funny how you guys always need idiotic sarcasm and mental gymnastic to close the cognitive dissonance of having voted for a war criminal.

                  Remember all those trolley memes?

                  You’re american. You’re not attached to the track. You’re ON the fucking trolley discussing who you should sacrifice to go where it’s most convenient for you.

                  Inhumane scum

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        That was never an argument being made

        Bullshit. It was absolutely an argument being made. “We kNoW BiDeN sUpPoRtS gEnOcIde; MaYbE tRuMp WiLl Be BeTtEr” (paraphrased) is very much the sort of dumbass rhetoric that was being tossed around and don’t you dare try to gaslight me otherwise!

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          Put yourself in the shoe of somebody who lost a relative in Gaza.

          Aah that’s right, you can’t. Americans aren’t educated to see foreigners as human at all. The more i talk with you guys the more i realize that

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            So people who lost relatives in Gaza want it to happen more‽ Because that’s what they got by helping Trump win!

            Also, fuck you for making assumptions about me.

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        Get some perspective and stop reveling in misery.

        Centrists are stubbornly determined to move right from here. Introspection is a threat to that, so they won’t.