How many dead Palestinian kids will it take for you to change your vote?

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    They’ve explicitly told us it’s perfectly fine to sacrifice entire demographic groups for the sake of poltical expediency

    What the libs have done is create an avenue of least resistance, where the party elites correctly understand they’re free to condemn whole demographics to death to purchase the poltical loyalty of others

    This is quite literally the death of solidarity and labor organizing in the United States and there’s no coming back from that

    Today it’s Palestinians and immigrants, tomorrow it’s native americans and trans people and on and on until they reach the one demographic they’ve always wanted to dump and destroy; the black working class

    This is how fascism in America truly comes about, and so many have already failed what even five years ago would’ve been called the easiest test imaginable

    The dems normalized genocide, it’s Joever folks, this is what unplugging the life support of a left tradition looks like

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    My sister who’s literal job is human rights law just told me I am selfish because as a dude my rights are not harmed in the US by Trump so I am “allowed” to favor the rights of Palestinians. Absolute ghoul. I think it really bothers her that we tacitly agree on most everything, but I am willing to stand by my values.

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      It’s frightening how immediately hostile people become when they encounter someone who actually has principles and beliefs. The sudden aggression and attempts at coercion are always shocking.

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        They tell themselves that whatever they do is correct, it is the most anyone could be asked to do. And so those of us who challenge that make them confront the fact that they are cowards, that they are complicit

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        Newacctidk’s sister is right. One can have principles and still live in the real world. Dooming the Palestinians AND hundreds of other groups is called being callous, not principled.

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          Y’all lesser eviled yourselves in to genocide. I didn’t condemn anyone. Democrats did. I’ve been trying to fight this shit my entire adult life. I’ve been fighting for decades. I’ve seen the loathing, the contempt, the hate in the eyes of nice, boring, middle income, fascist democrats. I always saw what you are but I didn’t understand what I was seeing. I won’t take the last step in to hell with you. I tried to stop this. You’re on your own. God damn you all.

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            So you will doom them to even greater suffering for the benefit of whom?

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              The IOF disguised soldiers as doctors so they could attack a hospital and execute three men they “declared” to be Hamas. They were wounded and in the hospital to receive medical care. It’s hard to count the number of warcrimes the zionist entity commited just in that instance. Kamala has done nothing but state she will increase support. Israel gets support for committing warcrimes like using white phosporous - against civilians no less. Israel often bombs schools and hospitals.

              Here’s some facts about white phosphorous

              • It can burn even under water
              • It is ignited by contact with oxygen
              • White phosphorus reaches temperatures of 1,472 °F/800 °C. For comparison aluminum melts at 1,220 °F/660 °C
              • It causes deep and severe burns. It will penetrate through bone.
              • White phosphorus particles that have penetrated the skin, for example on shrapnel, starts to burn when the wound is opened and exposed to air. Your wounds will emanate with white and yellowish smoke. It will smell like garlic.
              • When it is on you, all you can do to smother the flame is to deprive it of oxygen. As soon as oxygen is reintroduced it will reignite. This means there is functionally no way of stopping it from burning you when it is on you.
              • Unless specialised personnel is present there’s not much more to do than remove you from the place with white phosporous and hope there’s not enough to burn you to death.
              • It sticks to you.
              • The smoke is toxic.
              • Inhalation of the smoke will make your throat scratchy. You will begin to cough. You will get headaches. Anything more than a brief inhalation and you will develop a lung oedema later on.
              • White phosporous is toxic in itself. Ingesting it (like if it is on a massive wound burned on you by white phosporous and it gets into your bloodstream) will lead to a litany of deadly malaises.
              • After it is used on you, libs will handwring about wether or not it was actually a war crime.

              But Trump would be worse so all this is fine. I’m sure the concentration camps and mass graves would be worse under Trump because he’d tweet about them or something.

              CW: SV

              Trump would have even more palestinians systematically (be forced to engage in sexual relations) with dogs

              Edit: This song is about you We didn’t know

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              Harris’s goal is the extermination of every Palestinian in Gaza. She’s going to end the suffering of Palestinians one Palestinian at a time until there are no Palestinians.

              Liberals have spent a decade screaming at me about Uighur genocide, Ukraine genocide, Poland genocide, all sorts of Soviet genocide. I did a lot of reading. I know more than you. I know what is going to happen. I know how and why each action taken by the dog of NATO is being taken. I understand the kayfabe they’re performing, using Bibi to soak up the hatred while they implement their final solution to the Palestinian question.

              You Democrats could stop this. There are tens of millions of you. Many thousands who have access. A few dozen knives could bring this to an end in an evening. You could stop this and you won’t.

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              THEY ARE BEING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND BOMBED TO DEATH WHAT THE FUCK COULD MAKE IT WORSE, YOU FLAT ASS

              My god please fucking just… Think. Goddammit, just say you don’t give a fuck about brown people, at least be honest. There’s no difference between republicans and democrats but at least the republicans have the decency not to tell the most bold faced lies.
              Just say you’re racist, just say you want them to die. We can drop this charade. This whole pretending isn’t fooling anyone

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              I have not doomed anyone. The current administration has doomed hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of Palestinians.

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              What greater suffering you fucking buffoon? What can Trump even do worse you stupid spineless piece of fucking shit?

              Absolutely evil fucking moron, let me guess “he’s gonna let them use nukes” right?

              THAT’S NOT HOW NUKES OR GENOCIDE WORK YOU BRAINLESS GENOCIDAL GODDAMNED DEMON

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              uhh well they would suffer…uh…MORE! from the white phosphorous andremoved camps if orange man was the one giving his support!

              You are nearly fully nazified

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              The only groups that are dooming the Palestinians are the ones that you are in support of. You liberals at some point really need to unlock the ability to think critically and do some fucking reading about what your country does at international level, which don’t worry I know it will never happen.

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          Yes I’m certain Kamala “the law is the law” Harris will do all she can to help the many people she’s deported, just as soon as she’s confirmed in her belief that there is no consequence for committing a genocide.
          Surely voting for someone committing a genocide will only have the best of results for other marginalised groups she’s already shown she has, at the very best, a neutral attitude towards.
          Hey fuckface: The Dems are also persecuting those groups. The Dems were the ones that THIS YEAR cracked down on student protesters, yet I am to believe that they will somehow “protect democracy”? Literally insane. Actual doublethink.

          Now here’s also a novel concept: You do not support palestinians if you are murdering them. Saying you do something actually means fuck all. Thoughts and prayers might make you feel good, but that doesn’t stop the children from being burned alive.

          If I find out who you are and meet you, then I will stab you. This is an actionable threat.

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          Dooming the Palestinians guarantees the doom of the other groups you dumb fuck, are you seriously under the delusion that state institutions once wedded to the industrial mechanisms of genocide will simply set those tools aside because what? They just really, really, really, didn’t like Palestinians and that’s all?

          The population control techniques of Israeli fascism are already in the text books of US law enforcement agencies, Israeli AI software that selects civilian families for slaughter will and have already been sold to the US military, the “right” of the US National Guard to mow down civilians has already been enshrined by executive order, IOF soldiers are literally stalking US campuses to dox and threaten any students who speak up…just where the fuck do you think this leading to

          You’re literally as delusional as a German in 1934 telling this friends that Hitler “will stop at the Jews, I promise” lmao get a fuckin grip you quisling

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          A simpler rephrasing of this sentiment is “We must murder every Palestinian to prevent the death of vulnerable groups here.” How is this an acceptable position to you? Even if it was completely fruitless I would prefer to stand against the slaughter of an entire people than partake in the system perpetuating it, I can’t in good conscience do otherwise. We can do more than vote.

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          A large flaw in Hexbear’s dialogue is that it does not regard outsiders ignorance. Hexbear is mostly an insider group where established axioms and knowledge are shared as common knowledge, and therefore not entirely elaborated. It isn’t a substitute for dialogue, but becomes an echo chamber - fine in its own right - and stifles understanding of right and wrong to “vibes”.

          We should know, intellectually and not only emotionally, why your assumption and the human rights attorney’s assumption are flawed.

          Your assumption should lead to a question rather than a definitive conclusion. The question should be : How do persecuted groups in the US going to suffer under Biden & Harris?

          Of course, the entire premise is that voting is the most important and sometimes sole act of political agency that can actually change the politics of the state. Ask yourself, is that true? Has not foreign and domestic policy remained consistent among administrations and Congresses in its degradation of quality of American life for the past 50 years?

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          I love how you settlers keep trying to position yourselves next to the Palestinians like you or anyone like you has jack-shit to lose in comparison to people literally getting bombed back to the fucking Stone Age rn. That’s truly the funniest thing-- and by ‘funniest’, I mean ‘physically sickening’. Please die screaming, you actual fucking ghoul. May like visit like. May you reap all your hateful, venomous, genocidal culture has sown.

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      Ask her why biden-troll , in power right now, with expanded executive powers thanks to the Supreme Court, hasn’t done a damn thing to help on this issue? It’s so fucking dumb these people pretend they are powerless when they get elected. And so many people keep falling for it football-lucy

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    They don’t care because ‘trump will kill more’ is the logic. They have done a mental trick where they convince themselves they aren’t voting ‘for genocide’, they’re voting ‘against Tcump’. They refuse to accept that they are just doing the good old ‘ends justify the means’ calculus, and instead claim ‘harm reduction’

    As Malcom X said: ‘The White liberal is the worst enemy to America’

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      Like how is Trump going to genocide worse? They acknowledge Harris is doing genocide, and then say Trump will be worse, and it’s like… EVERYONE IS GONNA BE FUCKING DEAD YOU CAN’T DO WORSE THAN EVERYONE IS DEAD.

      I probably need to log off I’m going to need to log off for the night.

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        Literally heard them say “Trump will let them use nukes”

        And it’s like

        You know why they usually genocide people?

        To take their stuff!

        They’re not going to nuke them, they want the land!

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          Also, the wind from the Mediterranean would blow the fallout from a Gaza nuke directly to the east. The reason people have nukes is to attack countries on the other side of the world, not their neighbors. Multiple Hiroshima’s worth of conventional bombs have already been dropped since 10/7…

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            This is one of the reasons I’m a little worried for Yemen. They’re exactly the sort of target the Israeli government might consider dropping nukes on. A relatively distant country that’s been a major pain in their ass, which they have no intention of invading, and which wouldn’t be a fallout issue for them.

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          Ah yes a nuke would be so much worse than the… thousands of bombs currently being thrown at refugee camps internet-delenda-est
          I do believe Israel would do it though. Yes it is incredibly stupid, only something someone with a babys understanding of the world would even consider, but then again… It’s Israel.

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        The question I always wonder is, even if Trump’s genocide would be worse, do you think the Palestinian people care about the degree to which they’re being genocided?

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        Trump loves money. One of the best ways best way for him to get more money once in power is increasing our military spending on Israel aid, that’s the “but worse” part. In what world do you think he’d do the inverse of maintaining his power? There’s a reason the military industrial complex wants him in power

        From a .world account

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          Trump’s money, whatever he has, is all in real estate, isn’t it? Like this is silly libshit but it’s not even vaguely true afaik. Trump doesn’t know shit about the MIC and afaik the military brass, DoD, and MIC execs don’t like him.

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          I’d say they aren’t sending their best, but the sad thing is that they are.

          Wasn’t Trump the guy who fired Bolton? Didn’t he fire Bolton for being a warhawk?

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              The war criminal Richard Cheney who had nothing to do with 9/11? That can’t be right, who would think his endorsement would be a good thing?

              Yeah and she’s campaigning with his daughter for some reason

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            Wasn’t Trump the guy who fired Bolton? Didn’t he fire Bolton for being a warhawk?

            Literally yes, in 2019 i think when entire USA pushed for the war with Iran, then they backed off in last moment, but Bolton didn’t get the memo and was sacked for poor reflex in being a warhawk. Funniest thing came later when he wrote a very salty book in which he accused Trump of multiple instances of being unamerican like stopping from attacking Iran, knowing on map where China is, having a common sense to not blindly attack it though entire Pacific, cooling out some Holdens rep senators and such

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              Funniest thing came later when he wrote a very salty book in which he accused Trump of multiple instances of being unamerican like stopping from attacking Iran, knowing on map where China is, having a common sense to not blindly attack it though entire Pacific

              erm-this-you but also heartbreaking

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          The republicans are the party of the petite bourgeois who are generally more isolationist than neolibs. They support Israel for culture war reasons but if supporting actually started hurting their boat dealerships they’d start calling Trump to redirect aid to building more border walls.

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      ‘trump will kill more’ is the logic

      We don’t actually know what will happen with Trump. He is a petty, dumb, narcissist who acts like a weather vane for his advisors. He could decide to drop a nuke on the region, or he could get triggered by something on Twitter and decide to stop all arms to get back at Netanyahu.

      We know what the Democrats will do. They’re doing it now. Acting so sad while pouring truckloads of money into the kid crushing machine.

      This isn’t an endorsement of Trump, lurkers. Vote 3rd party or leave President blank. Neither major candidate earned your vote.

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        100% agree with this. Vote 3rd party Claudia or Stein and organize your community. We need more unions and we all need to strike. The only thing that can stop the machine is if we withhold labour

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        We can’t even really use the Nazis as an example anymore. The Germans had multiple parties with some daylight between them. We’ve got two flavors of Nazis.

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      ‘trump will kill more’

      It hurts when people who should be smart use this line.

      It won’t matter because nobody will know. Trump and Kamala aren’t going to be President at the same time.

      If Trump wins, any deaths will be said to be his fault and an imagined Kamala presidency wouldn’t have let THAT many die. If Kamala wins any number of dead Palestinians will be less than the amount that an imagined Trump presidency would have been responsible for.

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      “So what you’re saying is, the ends justify the means? No no, i get it, it just…that sounds pretty Stalinist, you know?”

      I can at least have fun with these assholes

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      There’s a scene in the tv show The Shield where its explained that a method of tricking a polygraph is to simply envision another question in your mind and answer that instead of the one presented.

      That’s what this feels like from liberals. They’ve erased the thing out loud (they are currently supporting a genocide) and replaced it with something in their head (they are opposing Trump). Except they keep saying the Trump part out loud as a counter to the genocide part.

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          I’m sure when she loses to Trump it won’t be for lack of trying. She had some very stern words about wanting to stop the violence against both Israeli and Palestinian civilians

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        This is a galaxy brain take. Beyond galaxy actually. A take that truly shows a deep understanding of geopolitics and strategy. Vote for genocide, to prevent genocide. I can’t believe I didn’t think of that

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        They are putting palestinians in concentration camps right now and burying them in mass graves. Somehow the extermination of the palestinian people will be more exterminationy under Trump. Do you not understand what is going on or do you not understand what a genocide is? The answer is of course neither: You do know what is going on and you either support it or just do not give a shit about brown people. But at least say that, instead of having us pretend like it’s anything else.
        At least republicans have the decency not to pretend to be human.

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        reads modlog

        Wow… its like… yesterday’s don’t exist.

        Dems could have spent the last 50 years or so trying to codify Roe as a fucking law but were too cowardly to do any more than hide behind a Supreme Court decision formulated on “privacy” instead of “medical care” all the while fundraising off of the threat that the forced birth crowd and Republicans are gonna take away abortion services every few years there is an election cycle.

        And guess what happened?

        Roe was overturned by the Supreme Court packed by right wingers who spent the last 50 years working towards this goal.

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    First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

    First time a tragedy, second time a farce. My mom has been sending me these pre-written harangues to vote for Bomb-ala and this is all I can think of. The Democrats have already thrown Palestine under the bus. They have already thrown the people, families, and children at the southern border under the bus. Do you honestly think they are going to care about queers when it’s no longer expedient? Seriously?

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    Congratulations on succesfully creating a lemmitor honeypot, Mr. Mayor rat-salute-2
    This feat has become increasingly difficult as the libs have sealed themselves off in their echo-chambers.
    Good heavens, would you look at the time? what-time-is-it

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    I would love to be able to send out a Kamala jab to people in my life and have them laugh along instead of distancing themselves from me lololol

    Why do people take this shit so seriously deeper-sadness

    Leftists have as much credibility where if you don’t like Kamala where I live, you’re basically certified MAGA

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    I’m not going to pick arguments over votes in the presidential election, I’d be better off trying to bail out the high tide.

    If voting isn’t worth a whole lot, it’s not worth arguing with a liberal and making them double down, because that’s all that’s going to come of it.

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    The ones said that they have to vote against Trump because he’s so mean. Even though Florida is no longer a swing state. Like they get and agree with me that this is an long-running campaign of genocide, they have come to detest the Israelis for their brutality but, Trump winning in 2016 just broke their brains enough that they can’t imagine doing anything but voting for Democrats, no matter how much they resemble the Bush era ghouls they hated.

    When you confront them with it, the cognitive dissonance is there, and it presents itself as getting hostile when being confronted with their voting for people currently committing genocide. They try to avoid that contradiction by changing the subject as soon as they can. The TV really makes them think Trump is the source and only problem in this world, even though I’ve told them repeatedly it isn’t the case.

    Hell, I remember when we were politically active liberals pre-Trump, and my mother displayed symptoms of what we now call Trump Derangement Syndrome, but, towards John Boehner of all people. She would talk with the same hatred every liberal has for Trump but, towards that guy, of all people, saying he was basically the root of all evil in this country. They always need, I guess, a Bonapartist figure to manifest their negative partisanship towards and I’m at a loss of how to break through.

    My dad was the most crushing to hear, since his hatred for Putin as a scapegoat by the neocons for Trump winning, has made him invested in reading about the Ukraine war online. When I told him of my anger towards the Democrats on Gaza, he basically said that in the grand scheme of things, he doesn’t really care since the American political establishment will never change anything on that issue. My takeaway from that was, at least his vote can change whether the orange Putin man is in charge or not. He’s been that disillusioned ever since Bernie lost and showed the electoral system for what it is.

    Anyways, we all voted yesterday.