President Biden quickly sailed to victory in Minnesota, but he was once again vexed by considerable defections as tens of thousands marked themselves “uncommitted.”

Disgruntled progressive activists and organizations have embarked on a campaign to push voters to mark themselves “uncommitted” in protest of Biden’s stance on the Israel-Hamas War.

With 95% of the expected vote tabulated, 70.5% of voters backed Biden while 19.0% went uncommitted, according to a tabulation by The Associated Press.

In Minnesota, more than 45,000 marked themselves “uncommitted” — a number greater than the margin by which Hillary Clinton defeated Donald Trump in the state in 2016.

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    101·
    8 months ago

    This genocide and all of its horrors, including starvation and weapons from israeli’s many international allies, has been ongoing on for decades.

    You’re catching the concluding chapter of an atrocity that has been going on for longer than most people’s lifetimes.

    It’s not a conspiracy. It’s history.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      318·
      8 months ago

      I agree that it has been going on for decades but the death count of the current Genocide is higher than in the last 30 years combined. If Biden stops it now Trump can’t just “continue it”. Just like Trump didn’t let israel randomly Genocide the West Bank during his presidency.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        8 months ago

        Maybe and* instead of but?

        I understand why many people would care more about more people dying at one time, but your comment makes it sound like it’s perfectly understandable why people have been ignoring the average of a few hundred Palestinians being massacred per year for decades, with tens of thousands more being wounded, and it’s perfectly understandable to ignore that until they were all killed at once.

        I don’t think it’s an understandable oversight nor should it be framed as one, there have been stories in the news about israeli genocide every few months every year.

        Rather than implying the relative significance of Palestinian deaths, I would look at the American media spin on Israel and Palestine and the role of open journalism and information technology as the reason people are finally paying attention.

        That’s a heavy statistic, can you provide the source? Thanks