The “Uncommitted” movement seeking a change in the Democratic Party’s approach to the war in Gaza on Thursday announced it is not ready to support Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris — while urging voters not to back Republican nominee Donald Trump or third-party candidates who could help Trump win the November election.

The “Uncommitted” group “opposes a Donald Trump presidency, whose agenda includes plans to accelerate the killing in Gaza while intensifying the suppression of anti-war organizing,” the statement continues. Additionally, the group is “not recommending a third-party vote in the Presidential election, especially as third party votes in key swing states could help inadvertently deliver a Trump presidency given our country’s broken electoral college system.”

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    bashing on Harris and pushing false equivalence

    You claim the Ds and Rs are the same, but you can very clearly see that the Ds are in favor of 10% less infanticide.

    That’s the only two choices we have

    The genocidiers have us by the balls, folks. Nothing you can do but voice your full throated support for one of them.

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      You claim the Ds and Rs are the same, but you can very clearly see that the Ds are in favor of 10% less infanticide.

      Be fair. They’re in favor of 10% slower infanticide.

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      So you’re saying I should still vote for infanticide? I don’t want that kind of blood on my hands. That’s the issue in the Trolley Problem.

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        Not voting is just allowing the worse option which still puts blood on your hands. Inaction still has consequences.

        We don’t live in a world where we have the ability to be completely pure, it’s an option that simply doesn’t exist unfortunately. :(

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        7 hours ago

        I don’t want that kind of blood on my hands.

        The joke of the modern American electoral system is that all the “viable” candidates are bloody. And if you abstain from voting or vote third party, you’re accused of supporting the winning candidate, regardless of your personal politics.

        That is, I think, a big part of what drives the street protests. Americans who don’t want to be complicit in this barbarity have no other actionable way to express their condemnation.

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      The path to ending the conflict is through boycotts, not the president. But that takes time, so 10% less killing makes sense as a stop gap.

      There is precedent for this. See apartheid South Africa. Palestinian freedom will seem impossible until it becomes inevitable.