• Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    If only they'd have listened to...their entire voter base...instead of the foreign donors

    • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      It's weird to blame foreign donors instead of Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, which donated 40 mill, and whose stock half of congress own.

      Israel is the client state here.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social
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    15 hours ago

    So a lot of people are angry at them for letting Harris lose because they held on to their anti-genocide moral high ground; they should've sucked it up and voted for her because the alternative was so much worse. Allegedly, if Harris had broken with Biden to denounce genocide, she would have lost too many voters.

    So who the fuck were those people?! Let's unpack this. If Harris were to oppose genocide, and they were to get angry, the same argument would apply to them: Suck it up and vote for her, or you're supporting the destruction of democracy. And if they stayed home anyway, then it would mean that they'd rather see Harris lose than ease up on genocide. "Keep sending bombs to kill kids, or we'll let women and LGBTQ people suffer, by God!"

    Do such monsters exist in our midst? I dunno, seems to me like they'd already be voting for the guy who allegedly would genocide harder. But if they exist, it makes a lot more sense to be angry at them.

    • Bronzebeard@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      The real issue is Biden shouldn't have been materially supporting genocide in the first place

      Then Harris wouldn't have needed to decide to break with his administration or not.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    10 hours ago

    This seems obvious.

    What is less obvious to me is why so many seem to have been comfortable voting for an open fascist as a protest vote for something not happening in their own country.

    "This is wrong, so I'm going to make sure the US gets way worse in solidarity. That'll show the dems."

    Put that energy behind housing prices.

  • BennyCHill [he/him]
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    16 hours ago

    You mean breaking with the whole of the united states government, both parties.