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    voting for a government that’s enabling a genocide is voting for that genocide to continue, no matter how you decide to answer on a poll

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      We’re in a representative democracy that takes a couple years for all elected positions within a government to change completely assuming every person in said government was voted out. So I ask you, why the fuck would you assume massive change of policy and position within a year? Especially since support for Israel was pretty widespread for the better part of eighty years.

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        why would you assume a change of policy at all over any timescale if you keep electing people propping up a genocide?

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          Did ya fucken read my comment, most Americans werent aware of the genocide up until relatively recently. Even then traction against Israel has only built up within less than a fucken year, and I shall restate that the US has been backing Israel for longer than most people have been alive at this point. Why the fuck would you expect substantial change before theres even been an election.

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            why would you expect substantial change at any point if you re-elect a party after they spent a year propping up a genocide?

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              Bit of a shit situation is what I call it, we have two parties who are worth shit. One is violently genocidal both at home and abroad, while the other is only mildly genocidal abroad. Sorry to break it to you mate but there is only one effective choice.

              And before ya come at me, imma just gonna point out that I fucken hate this fact. Im a socialist Redneck my ilk have been dealing with shit deals for over a hundred years, but the reason there are socialist Rednecks still around is cause pragmatism is a far more effective tool than throwing a hissy fit and checking out.

              I dont like the shit pie but its far more effective than standing up and letting the shaped charage under my ass go off.

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                continuing to vote for the mildly genocidal party is not going to make the mildly genocidal party less genocidal

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                  It can if ya vote in the primaries. The fact of the matter is that the parties didnt switch back in the 50s for no reason. The people winning the primaries swapped.

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                    an incumbent has literally never lost a primary

                    biden was always more or less guaranteed to be the democratic nominee if he wanted to be

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      You’ve got one side sending food and clean water while the other side advocates Netanyahu “finish the job”, but sure “both sides bad” about it all you want.

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                I mean, you’re clearly not willing to be rational on this, or you would never have brought it up.

                What do you want me to do, waste my time researching the daily operating costs? Spend hours hunting sources you’ll just tl;Dr?

                What’s the point? Even if you’re right, it’s irrelevant.

                What costs more, a bullet, or the medical care to recover from being shot? How much credit do you want to give someone for killing a hundred people while forcing a thousand out of their homes just because they only almost let the thousand starve to death in a refugee camp run by rapists?

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        you can talk around it with all the mental gymnastics you like, but ultimately voting for biden is a signal to the democratic party that their base doesn’t care about genocide enough to not vote for him, which is all they care about

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          And not voting for Biden resulting in a Trump victory signals an immediate end to Palestinians, among many other horrible atrocities to come as the US declines into a mix of Plutocracy and Evangelical Theocracy.

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            implying palestine will last until january

            oh ho ho

            if you’re fine with the trade off, make the trade off and vote biden

            just don’t pretend the trade off isn’t happening

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              There is urgency for every single life at risk in this conflict, but it’s not debateable that Palestine absolutely will exist in January and that the differences in US Admin could very well be the difference of hundreds of thousands of lives following the election.

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                i don’t think the current round of genocide will last until january, no, whether or not a state called palestine is left standing or not

                you’re trading in the lives of the next palestine