cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22088055

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/21529010

Pro-Palestinian voters are facing a moral dilemma.

  • What evidence do we have that Trump would be worse?

    You’d figure that the Democrats right before an election would at least LIE about stopping Israel. But they couldn’t even do that. How do we not know that the moment Kamala is in power, she tells Bibi that he can stop “holding back” and go full holocaust mode?

    While it’s true that I would otherwise prefer Kamala over Trump, on this issue there is zero reason to believe she would be even 1% or 0.00001% better than Trump.

  • الأرض ستبقى عربية@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    It is not even about punishing Democrats. A vote for Democrats is a vote for genocide. If Democrats losing voters alters their behavior then that’s a bonus but it is clear they don’t care about losing voters.

  • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    Trump will be gone after 4 years, but Democrats won't. Democrats need to learn they can't just do whatever they want as long as every four years they paint the other side as "a danger to democracy" and say this time the vote is "existential". It's such total horseshit and frankly I am a bit surprised so many liberals have fallen for it.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
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    2 days ago

    This is a honest question: how much are Muslims targeted in the US? They are the scapegoat of our European far right but AFAIK they are not the sole target of the Republicans. And would that change this debate somewhat?

    • Assian_Candor [comrade/them]
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      2 days ago

      They sort of fall into the catch-all bucket of "immigrants" which tends to have a different face depending on where you are, but is almost universally brown. For a while "ISIS is sending fighters across the border" was a right wing talking point. Even when you hear trump talking about it, the Muslim ban or whatever, it's always in this context.

      In general "freedom of religion" is one of those pieces of the American civil religion that is pretty well cemented, in that so long as you're american/assimilated your faith doesn't really matter. Muslims abroad are an entirely different issue for this reason.

      Islamophobia was a huge problem particularly after 9/11 but sinophobia seems to be the bigotry flavor of choice at the moment. All that said, nobody who isn't white in the US really gets a fair shake.

    • DoiDoi [comrade/them, he/him]
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      2 days ago

      Yeah dawg Marxists could never understand something as complicated as first past the post lmao

      Always incredible how smug libs are while simultaneously being dumb as shit

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 day ago

        I think it stems from the liberal mentality of everyone else just being a single West Wing style speech away from completely changing their mind and becoming a liberal. To a liberal everyone else is just "ignorant" and they are the enlightened ones. They can't even imagine that someone who disagrees with them actually has reasons to do so, they're just "ignorant" according to liberals.

    • miz@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 days ago

      I understand both of those things and I still won't support genocide. eat shit and die

    • multitotal@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 days ago

      "Hold your nose and vote for Harris!"

      "Anybody who doesn't vote for Harris is an idiot!"

      If I were American, I'd vote Trump just to spite people like you. I imagine many will do exactly that. You can't talk down to people and expect them to support your side.

    • uSSRI [he/him]
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      2 days ago

      What are the social mechanics of funding, arming, and providing political and international cover for genocide?