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Are you gonna vote as if your cousin is Palestinian lmao

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Are you gonna vote as if your cousin is Palestinian lmao

Yes because I know the difference my vote in the presidential election will make to the situation in Gaza is zero.

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Yes. Harris may not be their strongest advocate, but Trump would be 100% okay with completely wiping them out.

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She most certainly isn’t OK with it. She said she wants to end the war and have peace several times. She is not a sociopath, unlike Trump, so if she had the means, she would gladly stop supporting Israel with guns. Unfortunately, she does not - at the moment. Why does she not?

Because Israel and Bibi is supporting both Democrats and Republicans in the US elections, and has been for decades (although Bibi naturally leans towards Trump recently, as a fellow autocrat and dictator-wannabe). But Israel is actually lobbying for both sides and partially financing them, as well as having a lot of media under their control that can campaign for or attack any or both of them. They arguably can influence 1-2-3% of voters to swing one way or the other. And that is enough to keep both D and R parties/candidates on their sides, as the gap between the two parties are so small, that those few percents could easily decide the election.

So what would be a solution? If both D and R are dependent on Israel to win elections, what could be done? Well, if one side would win by a huge margin, bigger than those few percents, than they would no longer need the political support from Israel. Of, course, if this was Trump, he would still support them, because he likes other dictators and wannabe dictators, like Bibi, Putin, Orbán or Kim. They all help each other out against democratic countries.

But if Kamala would have a commanding win, that would actually enable her to not care about Israel’s political support anymore and do the right thing: end military support for Israel and thus stop the genocide. Let’s hope that she will have this power.

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B-but Gaza! I have to make a pointless defiant gesture to pretend I’m helping! Also will Doordash deliver halo polish?

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I know someone who voted for a third party candidate I hadn’t even heard of (Claudia De La Cruz). Like man you might as well have just left it blank

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Well I’d rather vote third party than leave it blank. Blank shows you don’t care while third party says you kind of care just ignorant enough to ignore voting 3rd party only benefits Trump

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Some people just can’t resist the thrill of free postage.

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or none of those and vote with compassion.

compassion > empathy

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Why would compassion be better than empathy?

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empathy is a double edge sword, often causing more suffering than not. empathy has no morals.

compassion is love without conditions. compassion does not require feeling what others are feeling in order to understand their suffering.

compassion is the goal, empathy is the shitty tool that sometimes achieves the goal.

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empathy is a double edge sword, often causing more suffering than not. empathy has no morals.

This makes no sense. People have moral systems, empathy is often a component of that.

compassion is love without conditions.

No it isn’t. Compassion is about sympathy and pity, and also is without morals. Unconditional love isn’t a thing, and people can act compassionately without loving someone. It also doesn’t require understanding which is vital to resolution.

compassion does not require feeling what others are feeling in order to understand their suffering.

Empathy doesn’t require you to feel their suffering, but to simply understand and appreciate it.

compassion is the goal, empathy is the shitty tool that sometimes achieves the goal.

Not my goal, seems shitty. Empathy appears to be superior.

Definitions:

Compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others.

Empathy: the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

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Why is there an apostrophe in friends, but not parents, when they’re both non-possessive plural nouns?

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because it’s a spelling mistake

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Because whoever painted the sign made a mistake? (I’m really reaching, I know)

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There’s not even the need for empathy. If people voted for their best interest instead of the interest of the 1% we’ll be better.

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