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-44 points

Sorry that was a rhetorical question: If Republicans support her then why would I vote for her?

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21 points

Because the alternative is that much worse. Simple pragmatism.

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-27 points

Both will continue allowing Gazan children to die 🤷

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14 points

But only one has encouraged Israel to “finish the job”.

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Oh yeah. Forgot. There’s no other issues at play in a country half the world away.

We (the US) are absolutely complicit in this atrocity. Thing is, we’re good at it and kind of used to it by now. Also, of note, we’re not the ones actively doing the killing. So we can’t vote and fix it. Best we can do is vote for a person who might fix it. Maybe. If every political issue aligns. But first duty is a vote to make sure I can vote again in the future.

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6 points

You are actually the one encouraging their murder right now… Not hard to see.

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4 points

Actually no. One will not “allow” it, he will actively participate in it. Gleefully.

You don’t give a shit about Palestinians. Stop using them as political pawns in your corny-ass, edgy teen-tankie bullshit. What you’re doing is shameful.

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14 points

From the article.

We have plenty of honest, ideological disagreements with Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz. That’s to be expected. The alternative, however, is simply untenable," said the letter, which was first reported by USA Today.

Remember what he did with TS clearance and his children. The alternative is a national security risk.

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7 points

You are on lemmy.ml. You love fascists. So you probably would vote trump anyway

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2 points

Are you voting for her or for the Republicans?

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Do… you not understand how voting works?

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You’re wasting your breath, it’s no use trying to point out that their choices are quite literally conservative vs conservative+, they don’t care, they don’t want to hear it, facing the truth is too uncomfortable, so they’d much rather just keep their blinkers on and believe that their “team” is really progressive actually and there to protect them, and so they can leave their aspirations for change in their “safe” hands, despite everything in current reality, and history to boot, points to the contrary.

And they will fight to the death for their right to never consider the bigger picture and posture with their bare minimum efforts as if they’ve at the very least single handily saved the world.

The irony of how identical their self harming loyalty to their “team” is compared to those they claim to be the complete opposite of would be wildly hilarious if it wasn’t so concerning.

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When the choice is conservative or conservative+, I’ll choose the non-plus option. I don’t like the circumstances, but I’ll do whatever is needed to shift the overton window back towards a direction of sanity.

Progressive politics can’t happen if radical conservative politics cause 10 years of societal regression in a single term.

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All true. I kinda suspect they are bots/trolls or something because they post at really weird times of day for North America. Unless they have pathetic social lives, they are probably in Asia or something 🤷 they also cooperate, or post from multiple accounts.

Moreover, their arguments are a bit circular and cannot go anywhere once they are accused of being OK with genocidal activity. They ignore facts and just focus on trashing the commenter

No hasbara though

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I kinda suspect they are bots/trolls or something

Could definitely be, could also be that the propaganda is so efficient that many people can’t see beyond it. Probably a bit of both.

No hasbara though

Small mercies ig lol

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