The number of “left” voters in this community that are doing their damnedest to get Trump elected never ceases to disturb me.
Yup. These types of articles and threads are designed to help Trump but muddying the water
But brah, it’s totally acceptable to overreact when one candidate doesn’t give us every little fucking thing we want, and MORE. They better cowtow, or I’m gonna keep being mean in comments because that’s useful and productive for reealz.
I’ll totally trash their bullshit because I’m not “working for the man”, dawg. Kamala is just more bullllshiiiit or whatever stupid thing we people say. Palestine on ma dingdong, and JillStein4Prez ✌️💩💩
us every little fucking thing we want
Imagine supporting genocide so hard that this is what you think of anyone who objects to it in any way at all ever.
Disgusting mindset.
The real world is not nice or perfect.
You take the least worst option. You’re choosing between a 2/10 and a 7/10 and then upset that the 7/10 isn’t a 10/10. That’s never going to happen. I would love for it to, but that’s naively idealistic.
You take the least worst option.
And I’m already voting for Harris. I still get to gripe about genocide, no matter how much it pisses off centrists to hear the blasphemy to the core of their worldview that is the merest suggestion that we shouldn’t be supporting genocide.
Sure, and if you make people not vote for her, increasing Trumps chance to win, so be it. I suppose you’re ok with that outcome.
I’d rather do whatever I can to get her in office then push for change. If US democracy falls apart with Trump then we have much larger problems than war in the middle east.
Sure, and if you make people not vote for her,
With my spoooooky mind control ray? You just want everyone who doesn’t support genocide to shut up.
No, I’m acknowledging that how you discuss it can impact an election. Are you honestly so dense that you don’t understand that?
And no, that’s not what I want and it’s not what I said, but please keep continuing this pattern of telling me how I feel and what I want. It seems you do have a mind reading ray, otherwise these claims would be extremely ignorant.
Single issue voters. They don’t understand wider implications of their actions, however well intended they are.
“Grandpa, what did you do when the genocides were happening?”
“Told people off for not being enthusiastic about voting for pro-genocide candidates”
“I told them to vote for the candidate that would finish the job, sweetheart”
“No, I meant the one in Sudan”
“There was one in Sudan? Well, I didn’t do anything. You see, there were no Democrats to blame”
We aren’t selling weapons for the genocide in Sudan.
Quit whatabouting in support of genocide.
So you’re not actually against genocide. You just want someone else to supply the weapons. If China would just take over IDF arms shipments, then you could ignore Gaza too.
What the heck is this argument? “Well SOMEONE is going to supply the weapons for mass slaughter, might as well be us!”
The argument is: it makes no difference who supplies the weapons. The only thing that matters is who exerts the most pressure to get a ceasefire.
My government isn’t spending my tax money to make me an accessory to the genocide in Sudan. You’re just happy that your tax money is being used for a cause you support: the genocide in Gaza.
Well, as long as your hands are clean then you have nothing to worry about.
Because the most important thing you need in Gaza is that you can look yourself in your mirror each day and that you can feel good about yourself.
One of us certainly does. You’re fucking proud to be an accessory to genocide and want anyone who isn’t to shut up.
I don’t think the person you responded to ever mention being happy about genocide. Why would you lie about that?
So they expect everyone else to be happy about genocide while being unhappy about it themselves? That makes no sense.
I trust that you’ll also be calling all the people who accuse anyone who is even slightly unhappy about genocide of being trump supporters liars too, right?
Point me to the correct candidate please. Oh right, you can’t because somehow it’s my fault that the two party system took away literally every option you could possibly have. Maybe i should’ve have voted for the non genocide candidate in my primary. Oh wait my state didn’t have one because i didn’t need to choose a candidate. That’s ok, no one else was running anyway because who the fuck can out raise the incumbents.
Seriously though, you are asking an impossible question and getting angry when you don’t get the answer you want. No one wants to vote for genocide. No one wants this to be the situation.
We can be upset with her decisions and policies and still very easily acknowledge that one of the candidates is clearly worse. Trump has outright said Netanyahu should just finish the job. He wouldn’t just not resist, he’d actively encourage it. It’s like choosing between getting shot with a .22 or a .45 bullet to your leg. Both fucking suck, nobody wants to choose either, but if you’re knowledgeable about all the consequences and paying attention, it’s not a difficult choice.
It’s not even a choice imo, there’s one electable candidate and one unelectable and I’m horrified that I’ve got justify it to a whatabout. I was simply saying that i acknowledge this whatabout is genocide. I wish i had better choices in my elections. Constantly bringing up genocide when right now at this very moment there’s not a candidate who is going to win that’s shown any inkling of stopping said genocide is contributing nothing to the conversation. That’s a conversation about genocide that should 100% involve American politics. This needs to be a conversation about American politics that doesn’t involve genocide because at this moment right now it adds zero value.
TLDR: you said it much better than i did lol
You’re right. And how people, who say they’re pay attention to the election, history and candidates, post the comments in these threads saying Harris is pro genocide and trump isn’t blows my mind. The trolls are either more subtle of stupider.
A lot of countries had the Jews living in ghettos without the same rights of other citizens. This went on for centuries in Europe. Then along came hitler. He took antisemitism to a new level.
One is the status quote (a vote for Harris) One is encouraging Netanyahu, the hardliners and the settlers. (A vote for trump)
The number of pro-genocide centrists who accuse anyone who doesn’t love genocide as much as they do of being trumpers will never surprise me.
Maybe they just have a tendency to confuse the painfully obvious consequences of not voting or voting against Harris for your actual intended goals. Trump is clearly going to be worse for Palestinians since he outright said Netanyahu should just finish the job, so if you’re on a clear and obvious path to getting someone even worse elected, we can’t help but wonder if you don’t actually care about the Palestinians because for all the bitching and moaning about Harris’s stance, you’re on your way to making the situation objectively worse.
I’m voting for Harris and have never, I want to stress this, absolutely fucking NEVER suggested doing otherwise.
You will of course completely ignore this because I dared to say that genocide isn’t the only thing in this world that gives life meaning.
I’ll admit I was mistaken given your comment was sandwiched between two people suggesting otherwise and given your suggestion that anyone tired of listening to those people try to discourage voting for Harris is pro-genocide. You may not be one of them, but you walk a very similar walk here, so I wouldn’t be so surprised by the confusion.
Consider for a moment that some of the others that you’ve written off might not be trying to discourage people from voting for Harris but might actually be upset about genocide.
You do understand that there are people in the world who genuinely don’t like genocide without ulterior motives, right? That it’s actually possible to find genocide objectionable?
Because it sure fucking seems like centrists on lemmy don’t want to hear anything that isn’t glowing praise in the face of the news that Harris will continue supporting genocide to the same degree that Biden has.
Dude this all started because top comment knew this post was gonna be full of people discouraging voting for Harris, and then you jumped in and accused people of being pro-genocide for it. This is what I mean when I said you walk a similar walk. Anyone who disagrees with your perfect view of the world MUST be an enemy who directly wants genocide.
None of us like genocide. We’re just tired of it being used to trash the candidate who’s objectively better on the topic, shitty as that may be. I, at least, don’t care if some posts about her are negative, but I’m real fucking tired of people trying to pretend that her failings here mean getting the objectively worse Trump elected on purpose or on accident is somehow a coherent idea, much less a good one.
Anyone who disagrees with your perfect view of the world MUST be an enemy who directly wants genocide.
And anyone who criticizes any Democrat’s support for genocide gets a fucking earful of “you want Trump to win” accusations.
None of us like genocide.
Ha. I wish we could link to specific modlog entries.
We’re just tired of it being used to trash the candidate who’s objectively better on the topic, shitty as that may be.
Objectively less bad. Let’s not pretend she’s good on the topic in any way.
I’m real fucking tired of people trying to pretend that her failings here mean getting the objectively worse Trump elected on purpose or on accident is somehow a coherent idea, much less a good one.
And I’m tired of the constant insinuations that anyone who thinks that no Democrat should be supporting genocide must be a trumper.
Neither fucking party should be supporting genocide. This isn’t perfect-world-everyone-gets-a-pony-and-a-blowjob-yes-even-the-women purity. This is the absolute bare minimum of what should be acceptable. It’s the most disgusting shit ever to see the “good” party willing to be complicit in the eradication of a people, and to be met with gross hostility from your own party for daring to call it wrong.
I wonder who the next entry on Netanyahu’s “then they came for” list is. Because one thing about genocide, it doesn’t end unless it’s stopped. It doesn’t end when it runs out of victims in one group. The genocidal stay in power by lying to the people that if they just get rid of those that they designate to be the cause of all the world’s ills, all their problems will go away. So when the victims are dead and the problems remain, they don’t admit they’re wrong; they’re politicians, after all. They just find a new scapegoat for all the world’s ills and continue as before. Ultimately everyone’s on that list except the genocidal maniac at the top.
Calling her “pro-genocide” might very much suggest to people that they should not vote for her.
Point of fact, I called centrists pro-genocide, not necessarily Harris. Though it’s not like calling Harris pro-genocide would make any centrist less likely to vote for her.
I feel like people are being very liberal with this “pro-genocide” term.
Not nearly as liberal as centrists have been for the past months with the “you don’t support genocide so you must be voting for trump” accusation. Which you don’t have a problem with.
Saying they are “pro-genocide” is beyond hyperbolic.
These type of extreme, over the top comments hurt way more than help.
These type of extreme, over the top comments hurt way more than help.
Hurt what? The tender fee-fee’s of pro-genocide centrists? If they don’t want to be called pro-genocide, they should stop supporting genocide. If they don’t want to be called pro-genocide, they should stand firm on literally any other issue. But they fucking don’t. Everything else is up for negotiation. Everything else is fertile ground for capitulation. Not genocide. That’s the only thing centrists won’t budge on.
Ugh, your just as bad as Trump and MAGA with these childish comments. Please at least try to have an adult conversation, if your “fee-fees” can manage.
Being “pro-genocide” means they like and want it. That’s not the reality, and if you think she really loves genocide you’re a lost cause.
And I agree we should fight it, we should stop genocide but right now, which side do you think it’s more open to thatb conversation? Because it’s not the side that wants to removing voting. So I say get her in to office at all costs to protect democracy and then work to fix that.
I’m just not ready to let the country burn to the ground over this and put us in a situation where we no longer even have a voice to speak out against it. People don’t seem to understand what’s at risk here in the US and the longer term effects it would have. Was in the middle east and Eastern Europe could become the norm.
And I agree we should fight it, we should stop genocide but
there’s always a but.
right now, which side do you think it’s more open to thatb conversation?
From what I’ve seen on lemmy, no side is. Of course Republicans are all-in on genocide. Centrist Democrats are openly hostile to the very idea of abandoning support for genocide. Which is why I say that they’re pro-genocide. You clearly have more of a problem with that than you do with the genocide itself. Know how I can tell? there’s no “but” to negate everything before it.
So I say get her in to office at all costs to protect democracy and then work to fix that.
I’m already voting for her.
I’m just not ready to let the country burn to the ground over this
How many times do you intend to ignore that I’m voting for Harris?
there’s always a but.
Yes because nuance exists. We could wipe out life on the entire planet, that would stop genocide. I’m guessing you’re in favor of that then, any means justifys the end huh? Or we could maybe take over and enslave both sides, that could stop genocide. You might say “yah but we just turned them into slaves”, to which I would say “there’s always a but.”
From what I’ve seen on lemmy, no side is.
This is pure dishonesty. In our convo alone I’ve said it’s bad and we should work to stop it.
I’m already voting for her.
While painting her as a horrible person that no and vote should vote for. Unless your saying people should vote for a pro-genocide candidate now.
How many times do you intend to ignore that I’m voting for Harris?
I dunno, when are you going to acknowledge that while you’re still voting for her you can actively turn votes away from her?
I dunno, when are you going to acknowledge that while you’re still voting for her you can actively turn votes away from her?
When you acknowledge that “pro-genocide” is a selling point on lemmy.
damn right
Harris could easily at this point make her own platform to run on that includes what the voters are asking for
her refusal to acknowledge the voters’ concerns is very telling
The way Harris refuses to court her own voting base never ceases to disturb me
Ftfy.
Its not on voters. Voters will do what they will do. Its on politicians who we vote for. Also I will be voting for Harris and also protesting at every event where I can to demand this apartheid and genocide to end.
Stop making Israel an election issue and worry about your own damn country. If you want to vote on Israel’s future move there, become a citizen and vote. But you live in the u.s, put down your world police badge and vote on your country’s matters. If not a single one of your leaders and candidates supports an issue, IT’S NOT AN ELECTION ISSUE.
Cool we’ll just go ahead with Boycott, Divest, and Sanction then right? After all this is our country and we can decide where our tax dollars go.
Right?
America funding Genocide isn’t an issue for you? Your moral compass works differently to mine
America funding Genocide isn’t an issue for you?
It is. It’s why they’re so adamant about silence.
So you agree we should stop sending them money, weapons and protection?
Decided to look it up, and the “we’re doing too much for Israel” is only at 40% of Dems, higher than GOPs 30% but it isn’t a majority even of her own party. And it’s an even fewer willing to say no weapons or call it a genecide. It’s certainly more people than it was a few months ago, but if you want the Dems to take a stronger stance, you’ll need to push those poll numbers farther because her messaging is reflecting that.
Now that’s not to say they’re right, Americans in general aren’t exactly the brightest or most informed bunch (see our response to 9/11, ugh), but representative government is going to reflect public sentiment. If you want to fight for Gaza, find ways to convince your neighbors or family members. If 60% called for a ban on weapons sales, you better believe it’ll be reflected in the platform.
Can you link that poll please? I’ve seen it as well, but can’t find it again.
I’m pretty sure you’re misrepresenting it, one of the options was “uncertain” at around 35%. “doing too much” was the predominant view.
This is akin to saying “only 30% of Americans voted for Joe Biden and he somehow still won” neglecting to mention that you’re including non voters.
Ok, Google is a bit of a dumpster fire, but here’s a few things retracing my steps:
That’s in May, but it’s a more popular link. That and a thing from Chicago foreign affairs which idk as well so I didn’t link it.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/29/politics/israel-gaza-americans-poll-chicago/index.html
This is two days ago, had to tell Google to look for recent. It’s not what I’m citing but it echoes it. People aren’t thrilled with CNN, but it’s not the only source if you do the time limited search yourself.
If I didn’t have two kids driving me crazy past their bedtime I’d search out more but the whole ordeal reeks of false consensus bias. Most people want to believe they’re in the majority. But if it makes people feel better, the anti war minority is probably correct (and my guess is the real majority is just ignorance or indifference).
Edit: it’s 61% saying US is doing well there. Most of it is “somewhat” so it’s not like it’s 5/5 stars. The Chicago one actually is a good read and it’s what the CNN one is based on I think. https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/americans-see-united-states-playing-positive-role-middle-east
The Chicago one actually is a good read and it’s what the CNN one is based on I think. https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/americans-see-united-states-playing-positive-role-middle-east
It is a good read, specifically “seven in 10 Democrats (68%) and more than half of Independents (54%) support restricting military aid to Israel”.
Well we broke 60%, I’m waiting
We? You’re including yourself among people who want to restrict military aid to Israel?
Why do you want Trump to win?
We as in the US. Because the comment was made “If 60% called for a ban on weapons sales, you better believe it’ll be reflected in the platform.”
What is with people like you making wild leaps in bad faith.
I was quoting the standard centrist line about anyone who has objections to genocide. I can’t imagine why you hadn’t encountered it before.
I would support a candidate that is opposed to genocide.
She knows it’s about Iran, not Israel and some local border dispute.
Israel committing a genocide is about Iran???
Global politics is complicated, I know it’s hard
Genocide isn’t complicated. It’s a war crime and it’s evil
Only a genocide deniers would call this “some local border dispute” at this time.
@JustZ@lemmy.world right now:
US support for genocide, regardless of the country of origin. Is going to end badly. Trump supports Russia, The dems support Israel. No matter who you pick, some defenseless group of people is going to pay the price for your vote. Atrocious.
Trump has said multiple times he has unwavering support of Israel and would give them even more weapons. Harris might be pushing the status quo which sucks but Trump would do much worse. I mean fuck Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israel’s claim to the Golan Heights. Trump already dunped a shit ton of fuel on the fire of war down there. Saying the two of them are both the same is some bullshit false equivalency crap. Get educated on a topic before you decide to barf out stupid comments.
Trump supports Russia and Israel, the dems support Israel. If you pick Trump, both groups pay the price. Depending on who you pick one group will pay the price or not, one group will pay the price no matter what; yet for this group (the Palestinians) the degree to which will probably differ, I suspect Trump may be worse given that he avoids supporting a ceasefire at all and tells the Israeli government to finish what they started. People from Palestine state the same: Trump would be worse, but neither choice would support them.
And there it is, colors shown true.
The US is an oligarchy in everything but name. The average voter doesn’t want this policy, but that’s not what matters for Harris. That’s not what matters in an oligarchy.
What matters is the few with means, not most.
The numbers I have seen state that about 60% of Americans support Israel, with 25% unsure which side they support in the conflict.
60 percent support it’s existence. Support for them blowing up Gaza is far lower. Conflating the two is a common Israeli propaganda theme. Even to declaring that Hamas would genocide them if they didn’t do this.
Sure, but this backfires in the current political hedgemony.
She does as she’s told
It’s going to come with a cost.
It’s already come with a cost.
She’s taken AIPAC money, she’s drank the koolaid. She can’t go back now. Most of them have, we saw what happened to most of those who didn’t. Our politicians are all bought and paid for, dont ever forget that and let’s get rid of FPTP so we the people can end this corruption. And if that doesnt work, well, you’ll find me ravenous outside of Citizens United.
Edit: go ahead and downvote but at least look with your fucken eyeballs. AIPAC didn’t blow hundreds of millions on our elections because they dont matter. Theres a purpose there.
Adding context…
‘Very Bad Sign for Democracy’: AIPAC Has Spent Over $100 Million on 2024 Elections
AIPAC’s billionaire-funded super PAC has helped defeat two of the most vocal opponents of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip.
Its also that as Vice President she’s a member of the United States Cabinet and United States National Security Council. Who do you think has been making the policy in Bidens administration?
Anyone that convinced themselves she would 180 on her own national security decisions has been delusional.
She was never going to flip. This isn’t about her flipping. Its about the fact nearly all of our leadership will support Gaza being flattened, and the Palestinians being eradicated.
Write to and call your representative. That’s how politicians know you’re upset.
Has anyone here done either of those things?
My rep is a maga chud, thanks to the party pulling funding from her opponent because they would rather have a maga chud than a progressive in any given seat.
So your answer is no then? Representatives don’t get as much contact as you think. Apply pressure wherever and whenever you can, even if that legislator does nothing in the years to come, every person applying pressure moves the needle. Doing nothing does nothing. Legislators like to keep their jobs and will suddenly have a change of heart if they feel their job is threatened. That takes hundreds of people in each district making their dissatisfaction known. Be the change you wish to see.
Parties pull funding when it’s clear there is no path to victory, so they can ensure victory elsewhere. That’s not them “rather have a maga chud” that’s strategic. You would be just as angry if they wasted money on a loss. I’ve seen your views all over lemmy, whatever narrative says the party did wrong, that’s the narrative you’ll take. Volunteer for the next candidate that runs, prove to the party that they have support and maybe funding will actually stick around. You’re an open book, no action, all anger.
So your answer is no then?
You want me to waste my time telling a MAGA chud to stop supporting genocide?
Well, it’s about as likely as convincing a lemmy centrist to stop supporting genocide, and I already try to do that. Gonna call today.
Parties pull funding when it’s clear there is no path to victory, so they can ensure victory elsewhere. That’s not them “rather have a maga chud” that’s strategic.
That would be convincing if they hadn’t spent money buying ads for maga candidates during that same election cycle.
That would be convincing if they hadn’t spent money buying ads for maga candidates during that same election cycle.
I agree, that was an awful strategy. Even if it helps in the short term, it boosts fascism in the long term. It did mostly gain us seats though… https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1135878576/the-democrats-strategy-of-boosting-far-right-candidates-seems-to-have-worked
She was never going to flip.
Yeah, genocide support is a bedrock principle, unlike things she has flipped on, like M4A and banning fracking.
Thats the shit I really hate. Its got me questioning what we’re really getting here and once a-fucking-gain I feel like I dont truly have a choice.
The US is an Oligarchy in everything but name, so of course…
And this is why hope was in that box with all the other curses.
I finally understand what “Vote blue no matter who” means. They’re all the same.
Narrator: But they didn’t understand.
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Harris leans to the right more every day
Only if you’re a single issue voter
Did we not watch the same acceptance speech at DNC?
- stronger military
- harder border and immigration controls
- drill baby drill
Those aren’t moves to the right. That’s just the status quo under Biden/Harris
True, because they are on the right just not as far as gop yet.
I’d be curious on examples.
Edit: Down voted but no examples given. Sad but expected.
How many thousands of women and children were simply LIVING in their homes when Israel voluntarily and with full knowledge of their civilian presence dropped a 1,000lb JDAM on them to eliminate a singular HAMAS target or two?
Look I’m voting for Harris but I really, really dislike how she goes into explicit detail on the events of October 7th but doesn’t go into explicit detail on Palestinians crushed, decapitated, blown in half or to bits by explosives, maimed, shot, and yes sometimes raped by IDF.
This double-standard of evocative imagery is in itself pretty disturbing.
The one that got me was when they justified dropping bombs on civilians to hit tunnel hatches. No evidence Hamas was present, just gotta hit that hatch.
How many thousands of women and children were simply LIVING in their homes when Israel voluntarily and with full knowledge of their civilian presence dropped a 1,000lb JDAM on them to eliminate a singular HAMAS target or two?
Fuck the men that didn’t want to die, I guess
Bad faith argument. Be better.
