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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Every human is created equal. But then again - those who believe themselves above other humans and actively hate them and try to strip their freedom away (through race, money, etc) - those I do deem to be less than human, and below me and anyone wanting to live in peace.

The hateful will always have reasons to hate, they actively look for them in everything and base their lives completely on their misery, and their ability to spread it to others like a plague.

If you can't live in a world with people different from you, and you feel the need to harm them, maybe instead of killing them, it'd be easier to get rid of you instead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

concentration camps and millions being stripped of health insurance and food assistance

So like Gaza?

Because I'm pretty sure this was the logic for people who refused to vote that this very community spent an entire year assuring me was a bunch of tankie bots from ml.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (8 children)

The majority of people who didn't vote for Harris don't care about Gaza. They're just larping on the internet.

She wasn't a zionist and wanted to end the war. It was a clear cut decision, but it was a brown and black sacrifice people were willing to make for their moral purity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I was ready to demand my Lefty comrades go vote for Kamala: after all, one Genocide is better than two genocides.

But then she came out "tough on the border" and took that from me. She promised to be every bit as hard as Trump.

https://theweek.com/politics/kamala-harris-immigration-policy-mexico-border

But she worked HARD to alienate the Left. She took every piece of rhetoric I had and shat on it.

So we have Kamala caving on Gaza with rhetoric (and walking it back)

https://forward.com/fast-forward/666427/kamala-harris-does-not-agree-with-protester-who-shouted-genocide-her-campaign-says/

But flatly refusing to do anything:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/crocodile-tears-and-genocide-how-the-gaza-war-is-threatening-kamala-harris-s-white-house-chances/ar-AA1tnGVg

Just like the Liberal Party. Promise almost nothing, make a symbolic gesture, do actually nothing.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/harris-gaza

So when she gets no support, why are Clinton Neoliberal, Reaganomics-poisoned-but-polite Liberals surprised? This is the Country they designed, on purpose.

She wasn't a zionist and wanted to end the war

Citation? Because any time I saw anything indicating that, she IMMEDIATELY walked it back. And I've cited (shitty) sources.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It is possible for her to be a bad candidate who made consistently bad decisions, and for it still to be a bad choice for an individual to not vote for her.

source: *gestures in all directions *

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (6 children)

100% I have voted in every primary until this one bc it was canceled. I still voted for her even though I hated it bc the reality is/was that, of the two choices, she was not the worst.

The time for moral grandstanding is always long past when it’s Election Day.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (16 children)

I dug through my comment history to find this. It has plenty of links.

I read it. Democrats will keep playing the left for fools and moving to the right, no matter what happens.

No Bernie's campaign and Warren's campaign drove Biden to the left on a whole host of issues, including labor unions.

There was no daylight between her and Biden on Netanyahu’s genocide.

Don't lie.

This comment said it best and lists calls for a ceasefire from Harris.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13069715

She’s taken a stance, multiple times. The left doesn’t want to hear it.

March - https://www.npr.org/2024/03/04/1234822836/kamala-harris-benny-gantz-gaza-cease-fire-israel-hamas

July - https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/25/harris-netanyahu-israel-cease-fire-00171315

September - https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/harris-trump-presidential-debate-election-2024/card/harris-calls-for-ceasefire-in-gaza-while-trump-claims-she-hates-israel--isokhfqmy6EgRGrUOSuK

Harris promised to do everything in her power to end the war in Gaza.

“This year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, it is devastating. And as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure, and ensure the Palestinian people can realise their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination,” Harris said to applause during a rally in East Lansing city of Michigan, home to 200,000 Arab Americans.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/4/harris-says-will-end-gaza-war-in-final-election-appeal-to-arab-americans

Unlike Biden, Harris was not a life long Zionist.

When Joe Biden met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet during his visit to Israel, the U.S. president assured them: “I don’t believe you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/

Harris wasn't perfect. And that was simply not good enough for some people who didn't want to risk their hands getting dirty. Even if it meant the Palestinians becoming the cost of doing business.

I voted for Harris and the election is over. That doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend that she wasn’t as committed to Netanyahu’s genocide as Biden was.

Good for you. I appreciate it. No need to spread propaganda though.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (29 children)

You voted though, right? For Harris? That’s the only correct answer.

Non voters + Trump voters + Jill Stein voters brought us into this mess. I haven’t heard anything from Jill Stein, as a leader I hope she’s speaking out too to her base. ~~

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

No it was the democrats who put a candidate forward so uninspiring and indifferent on many different issues that people didn't vote for her.

People didn't want come that had no stance against the genocide and was different from biden.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Multiple people can be at fault. The Democratic party definitely fucked up by not holding a primary, but every single person who had a ballot in front of them and decided that letting Trump win was acceptable fucked up even worse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just give it up, theyre the same as Republicans who can't admit they were wrong.

They'll act like theyre morally superior while millions more die because of their vastly misplaced arrogance. More Palestians died and will die. More vulnerable people reliant on USAID will die, and rather than admitting you should try to shift left (And I agree the democratic party is center right at best) they just let the worst possible outcome happen.

Theyre not morally superior, theyre morally bankrupt and mentally deficient.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I used the ballot box and voted straight blue, yes.

Really looking like it’s time for the next box and I hate that but no nazi deserves to breathe

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see stuff like this and laugh. It would seem that most Americans, Democrats in particular, cling to the notion that they will have a chance to vote again. If there are midterms or another full election, they will be rigged the same as Russia, North Korea or any other "strongman" dictatorship. Keyboard warriors won't make a whit of difference.

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Had a discussion with my wife's parents the other day. They thought it was hilarious. They laughed, alternating between mockery of the poor and "nobody helped me so everybody should suffer!"

She said maybe it's time to go no-contact.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (38 children)

Didn’t vote for it isn’t good enough. 90M people didn’t vote. We needed 2M more to vote against it. Remember this when the midterms come around next fall.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (7 children)

We need to be thinking about how 77 million Americans voted for Trump and thought that was a good idea.

And we need to work out how to prevent it from happening again.

One thing is clear, billionaires and politicians are unwilling to relinquish power or wealth, even when their holdings are obscene or they are incapable of governing.

We will have to threaten either their lives or the structures on which their holdings depend, and can't bluff. And they will likely choose death over surrender.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago

And the worst part?

They probably sleep sounder than you.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 days ago (54 children)
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