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-151 points

Still not voting for genocide.

If things get worse, we’ll just have to do something other than vote won’t we?

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Voting for either side is voting for Genocide. Not voting or voting third party when you’re left wing is voting for Trump which is genocide with extra bad things sprinkled on top. I’d say don’t kid yourself but I suspect that horse has already bolted

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3 points

As much as I want us to do something more than wash a finger at Netanyahu, there is not the support for anything more than voting for that.

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No hard feelings when I get the order to round up your kids to put into the camps after Führer Trump gives the signal, right? I’ll just be following orders, and don’t worry, work will set you free someday! I’m sure the dead Palestinians from our nuclear launch will thank you from the afterlife for sticking it to The Man.

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10 points

Aaaaaand that’s a block

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7 points

Did you need to read past the .ml?

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-6 points

“Still not voting for genocide”

You say as you side with Hamas who openly calls for the genocide of the Jewish race.

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-15 points

They don’t do that these days, and all the people that did are dead at this point. The lifespan for Palestinians is pretty short.

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5 points

Genocide isn’t on the ballet

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It is if you don’t vote for the two genocidal candidates. There are non genocidal choices, even if they’re just protest votes.

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7 points

Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.

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15 points

God this take is such a loser position. “Fine, I’ll just take my ball and play a different sport!”

Guess what dummy, you’re playing soccer with these Yahoos whether you like it or not so pick a fucking side and THEN ALSO DO MORE."

…burn the fucking barn down with the animals in it, ya dumb bystander…

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Guess what dummy, you’re playing soccer with these Yahoos whether you like it

Yeah, actually a lot of us are very aware of the game and how it’s played. Are you? You know most of us aren’t in swing states, right? So what is my protest vote going to affect again? My vote already doesn’t matter in a presidential election. It’s literally never mattered as long as I’ve been a voting adult.

or not so pick a fucking side and THEN ALSO DO MORE."

Yeah I have picked a side. The anti-capitalist side. Which of these parties are anti -capitalist, again?

99% of y’all are calling out this user saying they’ll “do nothing and be smug” instead of voting, but y’all are just gonna vote blue and similarly be smug, do nothing, but continue to run defense for millionaires and one of the most powerful capitalist political parties in the world.

At least this user won’t be doing the latter.

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6 points

Sitting on the sidelines while the world burns around you and complaining about it is highly effective. Withholding a protest vote (for either side) and supporting voter apathy is lame as hell.

At least when the capitalists are fucking you, regardless of who wins, you can smugly yell “I didn’t consent”.

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31 points

Have you seen the debate?

Harris’s policy is a two-state solution. A ceasefire that by definition ends the genocide.

Trump’s solution is to, no joke, entirely wipe out Palestine.

How is this in any way comparable? You HAVE your anti-genocide option right now!

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14 points

Democracy exist so we don’t have to reach that point, please, go vote.

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-21 points

Democracy exist

Half the presidents in my lifetime lost the popular vote.

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18 points

I wish MAGA gave up this easily.

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14 points

Agreed, but democracy isn’t built anew at every iteration, its assembled by the people that cares.

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1 point

If you don’t want to vote for genocide you need to move to a different country, because that’s never gonna change

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-27 points

I’m right where I need to be. 😉

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16 points

Guess you’re not voting then.

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-25 points

I was going to write in Aaron Bushnell for President but I think I’ll vote PSL

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What, are you gonna be on the front lines with your guns shooting? The overwhelming majority of people with this mindset have never held a firearm in their entire lives and have no idea what they’re even talking about. What are you even insinuating here? Is your end goal that we burn the entire country down because “wahhhhh both sides aren’t perfect”? Grow up, only children refuse to see greater good through compromise because they can’t see past not getting what they want. Single issue voters love to stick their head in the sand and pretend the one issue that they’re whinging about is the most important in the world.

Have fun standing on your “genocide” comment when you’re in a fascist dictatorship run by nazis. “but but but the genocide wah”

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-54 points

I’m insinuating that we can become ungovernable and force the government to capitulate to our demands. Mass protest, general strike, public disruptions, boycott, we have options to fight back.

Instead of just voting every couple years.

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7 points

You first.

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8 points

Over people dying in another country? And not for important things like disenfranchising and taxes?

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19 points

You’re organizing those things, or at least joining others who are organizing, right?

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24 points

Hey guess what? Fascists dont give a fuck about that shit, youll end up in a puddle of your own blood cause ya wont have the numbers. If it didnt work out for the fighters at Blair mountain a hundred year ago what makes ya think youll achieve anything.

Fuck ya’d have a better chance doing random acts of terrorism that put the fucken IRA to shame. Still probably end up in a ditch but you could probably kill some of the ones trying to kill you.

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12 points

Why not both?

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41 points

But instead you’ll do nothing, and feel smug about it.

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