Yeah, both sides amiright?
Can we not use Fox News, please? They legally argued in court they are strictly entertainment and no reasonable person would believe them. In other words, they are literal propaganda.
But yeah, I hope the smug voters that sat this election out are happy…
You’re so wrong and I hope you’re never on “my side”.
Good work Pro-Palestinian voters who support, especially in Michigan, Mango Mussolini or an independent. We tried to warn you and there is going plenty of US made tungsten zipping through the air in Gaza and southern Lebanon, This also means you can kiss the West Bank good-bye and that is Israeli’s primary objective.
Democrats were never holding them back from expanding, they literally expanded the war into Lebanon under Biden. The only check they ever had are the people on the ground fighting.
Where my “Democrats are evil genocide people” posters now?
I’m right here. Democrats are still evil for supporting a genocide, and your “lesser of two evils” logic continues to make us more evil.
What do you think of the 30 days the Democrats gave Israel to improve the humanitarian situation by measurable metrics? Israel failed every metric, but the Democratic administration ignores the results and continues to ship weapons to the genocidal regime.
What do you think of the dozens of international doctors who have been to Gaza saying they saw children with single gunshot wounds to the head almost everyday? Reports are widespread that israeli snipers are intentionally killing 100s of children each month.
What do think of Israels recent use of small arms drones? After an American/Israeli bomb destroys a civilian building, a dozen small drones swarm the area. These drones fire small cube-shaped projectiles with the force to pierce skin and break bones, using AI to target any human in the designated area. They are deadly accurate and fast, firing 3 at the head, 3 at the chest, and 3 at the groin. Doctors say these projectiles are especially hard to fish out of the bodies of the child victims as they rarely exit the body, instead they bounce around causing more internal damage.
Suggesting that the people upset about an ongoing genocide are just going to forget about it due to electoral politics is disgusting, and you should feel ashamed.
Right here. Republicans being worse doesn’t excuse selling weapons for an ongoing genocide. Democrats never should have done that. And it got you nothing. You supported genocide for nothing.
I think a lot of the hostility here is because centrists are mad that trump is going to be able to take credit for the complete implementation of their only policy.
Russians don’t need to make them anymore.
Democrats should never have supported genocide. Am I a Russian?
I wonder if any of you are ever going to realize you’re just doing reskinned Protocols of the Elders of Zion antisemitism with this
What you should have posted was nothing.
The Elders Of Zion is a bullshit made up hoax book for propaganda purposes. Unless you’re referencing it as such, it is not a work to be cited in any serious context.
Unless you’re referencing it as such
They very obviously are. How could you possibly read their comment otherwise?
I’m begging you to learn adult level reading comprehension.
It still applies? Just because the Republicans are exponentially worse doesn’t mean the democrats weren’t supporting genocide too.
No, it doesn’t apply at all.
The point of the anti-Dem posts was to get people to not vote Dem when objectively allowing a trump win was worse.
You’re suggesting actively supporting worse is better.
That’s fucked up.
I’m not at all suggesting supporting worse is better and I have no clue how you came to that conclusion. Allowing a Trump win was absolutely worse and I agree it would have been better for everyone to suck it up and vote blue.
That being said its incredibly fucked up to pretend the democrats are completely innocent which is just blatantly not true. They are better by comparison, but definitely not innocent and still supportive of genocide.
I’m not talking about the posts, I’m talking about you guys trying to sweep shit under the rug. It doesn’t work like that.
To answer your question: It does not still apply.
Why are americans so fuckin dumb? Instead of pointing their fingers at millions of trump voters, they are pointing it at people with empathy for having anti-genocider stance.
It feels like they are just interested in finding a scapegoat to blame rather than asking the real questions, why did so many people voted for trump? Did kamala, despite having more funding, failed to convey her plan? What happened and why it happened and how can it be avoided?
What funny is, i never heard in news about democrats impose any restriction on israel weapon donation.
You see it is like the media reporting “hamas want a deal” even when hamas october 7 plan was aim at getting a deal to swap prisoner, agreed to Biden deal in July but then the US backtracked their statement.
i went to hamas website and the statement was “Trump should listen to what the American people want”
I believe all these post are by Zionist to create a division in supporting ending the massacres.
Most likely what happened was inflation and a whole lotta price gouging, and people think Biden was to blame. The same people seem to think that donvict has a magic wand.
Biden’s response to the price gouging was a super bowl ad in which he asked those who were engaging in shrinkflation to cut it out.
It’s exactly this.
Trump promised easy solutions to the problems caused by the right, and by corporate oligarchs. They went along with it, and voted for him. They’re now in for a wild ride.
It takes a lot of mental gymnastics to claim he isn’t to blame.
Hey OP can you list the restrictions currently in place?
They are mentioned in the article, if we can call it that. But no specifics:
Currently, U.S. restrictions include an embargo on a certain weapons shipment and limitations on various combat-related equipment, even if they do not involve explosive ordnance.
What dies this entail, nukes?
The 2000 pound bombs are still flowing. I can’t think of a single restriction.
That’s just rewording the nonspecific claim. You were asked for a list of the restrictions.
This is because none of it is enforced and it OOS just a fig leaf. They claimed to embargo “offensive” weaponry while keeping a firehose of JDAM shipments to the Zionist entity.
the lack of lemmy.ml accounts on this post is amusing.
almost like they’re too afraid to admit they were wrong or they were Russian trolls all along.
Lol cry harder dead children
When I pointed out that Harris supporters shouldn’t have embraced genocide on the day of the election I got a temp ban for “trolling”.
Maybe do some introspection.
Who was embracing genocide? At least here most people are pro Palestine
Did you miss all of the people supporting a lesser evil Harris genocide? Many are in this thread right now trying to preemptively pass blame for everything Trump does onto those who opposed the genocide and refused to vote for its committers.
This is in no way a pro-Palestinian space, either. This thread has many examples of “the pro Palestinian protesters were a Russian plot!” and, “hope you enjoy Palestinians dying, non-voters!” sentiments.
It is on them. If you oppose genocide why would you be okay with it happening elsewhere?
But you’re ok embracing Trump genocide?
No? Why are you making things up?
Am I? If you don’t think we get more genocide with Trump you are willfully not paying attention.
I mean, assuming everyone on an instance has exactly the same views is kind of asinine. You won’t find me pushing that shit. And plenty of others from ml also.
Most dissidents have been banned from .world to keep the echo chamber functional.
you’ve got .ml and others, that’s where all the “dissidents” hang out. Must be hard to be a dissident when everyone agrees with you.
.ml has some trigger happy mods but nobody gets banned for criticizing the democratic party for supporting a genocide.
You can tell how much of an echo chamber it is here since there are no weapons restrictions for Trump to lift. Because the democrats did not place any.
.ml has some trigger happy mods but nobody gets banned for criticizing the democratic party for supporting a genocide.
Oh you don’t get banned for going along with Russian propaganda? Wow, weird huh.
But then you do get banned for pointing out Russian propaganda.
Here.
That’s @davel@lemmy.ml pushing against BlueSky, spreading his usual bullshit links about “Nazis”. He thinks Ukraine is filled with Nazis and Russia was right to invade it. Now “BlueSky is filled with Nazis”
It doesn’t take a genius to suss this out, but that’s what the poorly educated Russians don’t get. Or they rely on Americans being equally stupid, which is a good bet, honestly.
But for people with a normal amount of media/political literacy? Lol.
Everything I’m told by the state media is good and correct and everything would be fine if it weren’t for the underhanded secret
jewsrussians feeding dissentHey! Why am I being banned for following a user around and making personal attacks at them??
YOU’RE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF J-I MEAN RUSSIANS
You guys genuinely can’t argue like adults, it’s very irritating.
I’ve not followed anyone around nor have I made any personal attacks. Is “are you pro-Russian?” a personal attack in your opinion? I guess we’ll find out.
Are you pro-Russian?
Do you believe Russia has broken international law with their illegal war of aggression by invading Ukraine in February 2022?
(And I know you won’t answer any of that, you’ll just continue with the garbage quality propaganda. Which is to say utilising shitty rhetoric to push your agenda. Ie the childish nature of your wannabe argument. I wish you could see just how ridiculous it is, but you’re genuinely not able to. If you were, you’d be too ashamed to write that, lol.)
Stimulus: “You’re falling into the exact antisemetic tropes The Protocols of the Elders of Zion inspired in the late 18th century. You’re just replacing ‘Russian’ for ‘Jew’ for your paranoid delusions that act as thought stoppers for any dissent”
Response: “YOU SOUND LIKE A SECRET JEW”
True, anything vaguely pro Israel gets deleted and banned.
Wait, defending genocide is seen as a bad thing?
faints in bootlicker
In what way were we wrong? Did we ever claim Trump would be good on Gaza?
There were two ways to vote for Trump. 1) Mark Trump on your ballot and turn it in, or 2) Not vote for Harris, not turn in a ballot at all.
Quit being coy, just take a bow and acknowledge your victory. You stood strong against genocide, and helped elect the only candidate who can’t be reasoned with and whose stated political policy was to SPEED UP THE GENOCIDE. Congrats! If you thought their blood wasn’t on your hands before, it absolutely is now.
There were two ways to vote for Trump. 1) Mark Trump on your ballot and turn it in, or 2) Not vote for Harris, not turn in a ballot at all.
In that case, Trump has won with an overwhelming majority in every election he’s ever run in, since nonvoters are like half the population and all of them count as voting for Trump.
Back here in reality, that’s not how it works.
There were two ways to vote for Trump. 1) Mark Trump on your ballot and turn it in, or 2) Not vote for Harris, not turn in a ballot at all.
By this logic a vote for Jill Stein would be a vote for Harris, lol. Question your political masters, this just isn’t logical at all.
Quit being coy, just take a bow and acknowledge your victory.
It is good for Democratic voters to have failed while supporting genocide. You shouldn’t support genocide and I shouldn’t have to lecture you like this. Be a good person.
You stood strong against genocide, and helped elect the only candidate who can’t be reasoned with and whose stated political policy was to SPEED UP THE GENOCIDE.
Israel already has unconditional support for its genocide and opened up two new fronts with the suppory of the Biden-Harris administration. Israel does not have one hsnd tied behind its back. The dominant global empire supports it materially and diplomatically.
Your lesser evil logic means nothing here. It is again just a thought terminating cliché from your political masters. Instead of justifying lesser-evil genocide, please go and inform yourself and work to help others.
Congrats! If you thought their blood wasn’t on your hands before, it absolutely is now.
Blood is on the hands of those committing and supporting genocide, not those who fifht against it. Look at how this political illogic has twisted your understanding of basic reality.
When you see a .world account you just have to assume they’re one of the dumbest most evil motherfuckers you’ve ever met.
Yes. Now fuck off.
I bet you couldn’t even name a single example
exit polls showed that harris lost mainly on the economy. You just want to pretend it was gaza so you can point fingers.
God forbid someone point a finger for supporting genocide
Nope, it was the apathy. Democrats that came out to vote for Biden 4 years ago stayed home. That’s a FACT you can count in the number of votes cast this election vs last.
You know what else is a fact? People that stayed home and didn’t vote DIDN’T GET EXIT POLLED.
Exit polls and polls leading up to election. Come on now, lets not mince words or pretend the data wasnt obvious. They did know. It was all over the news snce the day she started her run.
“The economy, particularly inflation and the cost of living, is the primary issue for a majority of voters.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm24g1nj364o
Bidens historically low approval rating was well documented, and the reason for it being low was well understood. She chose to say that “she couldnt think of anything she’d change” or something like that. She ran on a platform that had already ended up on the rocks long ago. Centrists just put their fingers in their ears and pretended Biden was the second coming of FDR whenever Biden was criticised, but the numbers were there waiting to be read.
88% of Americans disagreed with how the US was acting in the Israeli war on gazans. She knew that wouldnt be consequence free. She ran with it anyway. Thats just Bidens stubborn rightwing petulant stupidity thats been the hallmark of his entire career bleeding into Harrnis’ campaign. A competent politician wouldnt have talken on that baggage when it was so obviously going to cost big in swing states.
“The vice president has said she would not change from Biden’s policies, and argued that Israel has a right to defend itself. But she has also said that far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4895174-democrats-middle-east-conflict/
Exit polls are flawed in the sense that the people who don’t vote aren’t there to begin with.
Oh so now we trust polls. Got it.
Link or it didn’t happen.
Harris lost because of a lack of blue voters who didn’t get an exit poll.
There were more red there, and they claim to have voted because of economy because racism and hurting the other team wasn’t on the official ticket.
Genocide Joe has been an established term for months.
Bruh, I’m just here for the memes. But I can start commenting on political stuff more to even out my instance’s biases if that would help. Honestly haven’t paid much attention to which trolls were from where, but I’ll take your word for it…
I don’t understand the downvotes.
It’s fine, the internet will internet. Unless someone tells me what I’ve done wrong, I’m just gonna assume one downvote gave it the initial velocity for more downvotes. Trying to understand it beyond that will make you go crazy.
Did anyone tell the Palestinians that this would have been the same and to not worry? We had brave, brave people who sat on their hands and did nothing in their name, so I hope they’re grateful for their “sacrifice.”
You could literally ask them yourself. They quite explicitly refused to vote for you and your genocidal racist candidate.
You brave, brave keyboard warrior who would get their ass beat if you said any of this in person
Lmao I would absolutely square up against a fascist. Don’t threaten me with a good time. See, I’m an adult. I understand the work doesn’t stop at the vote, but I know how important it is to do what I can, even if it’s small. And I know that giving the government the equivalent of a cold shoulder allows shit to happen. Evil happens when good people do nothing, and, unlike you I guess, I refuse to do nothing. I’m involved in my local government and plan to keep working. I’d say you should do the same, but I think we both know that ain’t happening. But I hope you feel good doing nothing but bad mouthing those braver than you on the internet. Just down vote me and be on your way. 💅🏾
The more common correlary was to sit on one’s hands and provide consent for genocide or to try to vote shame on support of genocidal candidates.
Though I think you know that those who stand with Palestine tend to be more politically active than your typical Democratic voter. I know I don’t see your type in the streets or running education programs or building connections to support Palestinians directly.
Oh my, my type? Goodness, you know, I didn’t see your type either now that I think about it! When I went to protests and meetings in my community, I’m afraid I didn’t see you there, I only saw people who we trying to actually help people, you know, the ones that knew they were between and rock and a hard place, but actually tried to not hand the government over to a blood thirsty racist, while making sure the community was informed in what steps to take should he win and are now continuing to rally and make their voices heard instead of “not VoTiNg fOr GeNoCiDe” which, you know, kind of got us here.
But perhaps it’s scary to stand for a belief off of the internet, but I’m unfamiliar with the feeling because my mom didn’t raise a bitch.
Don’t worry, we’ll handle it, sport. You just stay safe inside, okay? ♥️
Oh my, my type? Goodness, you know, I didn’t see your type either now that I think about it! When I went to protests and meetings in my community
Speaking about this as if they are over and not something ongoing says a lot. I’m leaning towards this just being a lie.
, I’m afraid I didn’t see you there, I only saw people who we trying to actually help people, you know, the ones that knew they were between and rock and a hard place, but actually tried to not hand the government over to a blood thirsty racist, while making sure the community was informed in what steps to take should he win and are now continuing to rally and make their voices heard instead of “not VoTiNg fOr GeNoCiDe” which, you know, kind of got us here.
I have never seen a pro-Palestinian protest with that message. That just sounds like you projecting your armchair liberal takes onto other people.
The people who organize pro-Palestinian protests are socialists and allied Palestinian groups, occasionally JVP. And while JVP is milquetoast and weak, even they aren’t that mealy-mouthed.
But perhaps it’s scary to stand for a belief off of the internet, but I’m unfamiliar with the feeling because my mom didn’t raise a removed.
I wonder what slur you used while calling yourseld a good person.
Don’t worry, we’ll handle it, sport. You just stay safe inside, okay? ♥️
It id also telling that this is the only part of my comment that you replied to.
They were braver than that, friend! They took to the internet in droves, and in every comment thread they showed everyone how principled they were, commenting “I ReFUsE to VoTE 4 GENOCIDE!!!”, spreading their message to either vote 3rd party or don’t vote at all. They worked hard AF to spread their apathy far and wide!
That they did. I’m sure Netanyahu is grateful.
This type of person doesn’t give a fuck about actual Palestinians. It’s just a way to make themselves seem virtuos and ideologically pure.
Boy those pro-Palestine folks that didn’t vote for Kamala to protest her stance on the genocide sure did own the Democrats. I’m sure they’re super happy about helping get Trump back in office and aren’t at all upset about the leopards gnawing off their entire heads.
I am happy that Democratic voters did not learn that they can support genocide and still win elections.
If you tolerated genocide, you are the kind of voter that allows them to get away with these things. This enabled the current genocide - they expected you to fall in line znd it sounds like you did what you were told. It will also enable the rightward swings the party always wants to take in the interests of capital.
It would be better if you focused on becoming politically informed and worked against these forces rather than giving them legitimacy.
They quite literally do not think Palestinians are people. Nothing else could explain their blood soaked entitlement. Nor how unapologetic they are.
But that was before the election.
Now you know they’re literally the same as the nazis on the other side by how fucking gleeful they are to watch the bodies stack with an ignorant “I told you so”
They’re exactly the people we said they were. Let’s see how many learn from us saying so and being right.
Yes, liberals have been scratched and, as I predicted, they have split into two minds:
- Disbelief and resignation, a depression that can sometimes be broken through with reminders that they shouldn’t have supported genocide.
- “We’ve gotta get a whole lot more racist”
You didnt vote democrat this election you are responsible for never again getting the chance to elect a candidate that will stop Israel or make anything better.
The Democrat was someone committing genocide as part of the current administration. Your logic is, “we have to support genocide to maybe stop genocide later”. Listen to yourself!
Re: fears of “democracy” itself dying:
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I don’t care anyways and neither do most people. The American public sees no value in voting. The system offers them nothing. Bourgeois democracy is a farce that launders ruling class interests as popular sentiment.
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Bourgeois democracy will continue in the US after Trump and I will bet you any amount of money to this effect.
Anarchist instance btw.
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Watch the news, shit is horrible now. There were and are no checks on the Israeli army. But keep blaming the third party voters if it makes you feel better. We don’t mind.
Biden put pressure on Israel several times and achieved temporary ceasefires and more humanitarian aid. Rafah would have been stormed months earlier without US intervention.
shit is horrible now
If you don’t think it can get worse, you’re a fool.
It will get worse with no policy change. It is an ongoing genocide with unconditional US support.
It’s gratifying to know you don’t mind recognition for being literally too stupid to vote.
Usually abstinence prevents idiots from entering the gene pool; this time it may help get rid of some if Trump gets his way. Great work!
Us: You’re acting exactly like nazis
You: Now watch me do eugenics!
Haha! So bad was so bad that picking worse was better? Good going there!
They’re still acting like they’re better than Trump and his supporters
Even now while they’re openly cheering on the death
They’re worse
The headline is wrong but still congrats to you morons for enabling Trump. He is clearly a friend of the Palestinians and not Bibi’s buddy.
The problem is not military restrictions. Biden did not have any either. The problem is recognition of annexed territories. We see how Israel is clearing out the northern part of Gaza and they are already talking about annexing the West Bank. We are likely to see a lot more violence in the West Bank soon. My guess is parts of Jerusalem and Jericho being in focus.
The problem is recognition of annexed territories.
Don’t look too hard at Harris’s pick for VP if this is the pretext for “we’re not as bad” that you’re clinging to
Did you know the Democrats are the first party to have a Palestinian-American woman elected as a member of Congress? Her name is Rashida Tlaib, and Israel has banned her from entering their country, and Marjory Taylor PieceofShit attempted to pass a resolution censuring her for her criticism of Israel.
Hm, I wonder if any of the “anti-genocide” assholes ever stopped to think about Rashida, and whether she would have wanted Democrats to sit out this election or vote Green. I wonder if they understand anything at all.
Hm, I wonder if any of the “anti-genocide” assholes ever stopped to think about Rashida, and whether she would have wanted Democrats to sit out this election or vote Green.
When you definitely know Tlaib’s positions lmao
Incredibly chauvinistic to use her as a talking point and put your own positions into her mouth without listening to anything she says.
Tlaib has generally been the sole voice against US support for Israel in Congress and very publicly refused to endorse Harris days before the election.
She got nearly twice the support in her district as Harris did.
Trump will enable any genocide the Israelis commit, and loudly gloat over it.
But yeah, both sides are the same…
You have correctly identified the relevant difference: rhetorical approach.
Biden-Harris: feigned concern and “ceasefire” claims while providing unconditional support for the genocide.
Trump: no feigned concern or “ceasefire” claims while (presumably) providing unconditional support for the genocide.
But this difference means nothing materially, of course. If someone punches you with a smile on their face do you thank them for it?
Yes. Now make sure you stand in front of a mirror once a day and say that out loud so you actually start to believe it.
To pretend that Biden did not deliver weapons to Israel used for a genocide, but Trump will make it even worse? I just need to read the news for that. No need for a mirror.
The Biden-Harris regime has provided, unconditionally, the material snd diplomatic support needed for Israel to carry out this genocide. If you support them, you are complicit.
Who should look in the mirror?
There are no restrictions to lift, but I guess it makes a good sound bite, even if its utter nonsense.
https://www.reuters.com/world/no-us-conditions-security-assistance-israel-austin-says-2023-10-12/
I think you will find out exactly what he means… I think you already know, but are lying to yourself.
The Biden-Harris regime used this as a rhetorical fig leaf and Trump will not. No policy changes, no material changes on this. It is just different propaganda angles to keep doing the same thing.
Me trying to find the restrictions in question just like me trying to find Biden’s red line and also just like me trying to find Blinken’s endzone and also me trying to find the consequences of Israel’s actions for the past 13 months.
What a joke lol
This comment has some real manic desperation energy. Are you ok?
Posting memes in response to news like this… You’re showing everyone your ass, moron.
Take a breath, and maybe do some introspection.
I see that you have made no such comments towards the memers in this thread trying to crap on those who won’t vote for genocide.
Including the restriction on bombing Israel?
Well, to all the folks arguing with me on how voting for Harris was bad because of Gaza: CONGRATULATIONS! You REALLY made a point there. The Palestinians had a chance under Harris. Instead of voting for a chance for the Palestinians, you did nothing or voted for genocide. You did it from the other side of the world, where you won’t have to suffer the consequences.
Well, to all the folks arguing with me on how voting for Harris was bad because of Gaza: CONGRATULATIONS! You REALLY made a point there.
Yes, I hope you can take this time to internalize a lesson: you should not support genocide or genociders. The candidate and strategy that you embraced was a gamble tbat you could support genocide and still win the election if you just recycled enough bad faith talking points at the people who consistently oppose genocide.
As you can see, you were wrong. And yet here you are trying to blame others rather than learn this lesson. Do some self-criticism instead. I hope you can forgive yourself for supporting genocide for a cynical loser like Harris.
The Palestinians had a chance under Harris.
Harris, of the Biden-Harris regime, has had an identical line to Biden’s during this 13 months of US-backed genocide. Unconditional material support and some empty rhetoric trying to PR handle their base rather than change policy.
What do you imagine when you say, “had a chance”? Is it the current mass civilian bombing campaigns? Children burned alive? Mass starvation and malnutrition? Those are the things you’ve gone to bat for, that is the realized vision of the Biden-Harris regime.
you did nothing or voted for genocide
The people voting for genocidal candidates like Harris or Trump voted for genocode. That was something you seem to have done, but not I.
You did it from the other side of the world, where you won’t have to suffer the consequences.
You cannot make your support for a genocider into an anti-privilege clapback. Do some self-criticism because this is gross.
Yes, I hope you can take this time to internalize a lesson: you should not support genocide or genociders.
Sorry, what exactly is the lesson to be learned from this election, in which the candidate who more vocally supports the genocide won? As in, showing more support for the genociding party and demonstratively siding in all points with the genociders with not even rhetorical pushback, just pure endorsement of the genocide? Which lesson will analysing this election yield again?
Those are the things you’ve gone to bat for, that is the realized vision of the Biden-Harris regime.
There’s a difference between making the best of a bad situation and going to bat for it. Your choices were someone who there is a chance of reigning in Israel or someone that told them to do whatever they want with weapons we send. The latter is obviously a bad choice unless you agree with Israel.
There’s a difference between making the best of a bad situation and going to bat for it.
All of the people saying they would vote for Harris despite genocide and that you should too were going to bat for the bad situation.
Now that Harris has lost, many are choosing to lash out rather than question their own choices.
Your choices were someone who there is a chance of reigning in Israel
This is absurd. The Biden-Harris regime is literally a necessary partner in this genocide and Harris had the exact same line as Biden. They provide unconditional support.
someone that told them to do whatever they want with weapons we send.
Both major party options were that.
The latter is obviously a bad choice unless you agree with Israel.
And yet it is the blood price Harris supporters demanded be paid rather than getting off their asses to actually oppose the genocide and attempt to force the issue. And same regarding Genocide Joe before that.
Yeah, but they’ve stuck to their guns, and now they can stand proud next to the bodies, knowing they never compromised on their moral integrity.
We are not the ones complicit in this genocide. That is, in fact, those supporting the people committing genocide.
“A vOTe fOR hARriS iS a VoTE FoR gENociDe”
Fucking morons
Fucking Russians. Fixed it for you.
“BlUe MaGa”
Yes, we are seeing that in spades in this comment section.
After 13 months of genocide backed by your candidates, where you were all out here sharing false lesser evil logic and other thought-terminating clichés about how you need to tolerate genocide to win, well, your candidate lost. Your strategy failed. Really, the party’s strategy failed, as your political role relative to its decisions is someone who makes no demands and can be largely ignored.
Are you taking this time to reflect on how you were wrong? That maybe you shouldn’t support genocide or project a false pretense of political understanding when what’s underneath is really just right wing Democrat Reddit memes?
Nope, nothing is ever the fault of the party or its most dedicated soldiers. The party cannot fail, it can only be failed, right?
Blue MAGA.
It’s pretty obvious that the Gaza protesters were given disproportionate media coverage because Russia paid for it to be pushed as a wedge issue.
Even this article is just anti leftist propaganda.
The actual amount of people that protest voted was a non factor this election. The exact same ratios of Muslims, Jews, and young people voter the same this time as in 2020.
I believe there was real, grassroots protests, and the people who were there genuinely, were easily manipulated by those who were there maliciously into literally fighting for the opposite thing that they wanted.
It would be impressive if it weren’t so goddamn depressing.
Online, on the other hand, agents provocateur everywhere. Plus more useful idiots who are now the ones who will either be an adult and admit they fucked up, or double and triple down on their mistake in order to preserve their ego (somewhat understandably so, as they seem to actually give a shit about Palestinian lives and now have to live with the role they played in escalating the genocide).
And to be clear, I consider myself an ardent supporter of Palestine in the genocide Israel is perpetrating. Which is exactly why I did the one small thing in my power that could have possibly done something to reduce that damage and not escalate the genocide (btw, a lot of people here are going to find out that genocide ≠ genocide ≠ genocide. In the worst way possible). And that was to vote for Harris.
If you want to find out what’s coming, just pick up a history book for once. A couple weeks too late, but at least you’ll learn why you fucked up.
You cannot call yourself an ardent supporter of Palestine while speaking about pro-Palestinian protesters like they are aliens or well-meaning idiots manipulated by unspecified malevolent forces. Anyone that is ardently pro-Palestinisn is at the protests, organizing actions, and speaks as a member of the community, not separate from it.
Please take some time to ask yourself whether you have the experience and knowledge required to talk on this topic.
The turnout of Democratic voters was lower than previous elections. There are too many variables at play to claim anything definitively, but it’s safe to assume that the number of voters who abstained due to the issue was more than zero.
If a conclusion is going to be drawn about whether the whole genocide topic had a tangible effect on the outcome, it’s important to consider those as well as the protest votes.
For something like 30 years running, the real winner of the election was non-voters. When other countries have this level of boycott and the US doesn’t like them, they get called “regimes” in need of “democraticization”.
I really want to see a credible analysis showing how many of those non-votes were due to abstentions versus voter-suppression mesaures such as electoral-roll purges, overcrowded polling stations, fake challenges at the polls, etc.
It’s not genocide if they aren’t people.
–Trump, Probably
Given the stark difference in how Dems resoonded to the plight of Ukrainians vs. Palestinians, it’s clear that this is also the tacit Dem position and what upsets their voters is for it to be explicitly acknowledged.
The entire unhinged right wing has been declaring them UnPersons for decades. I remember in the 90s, possibly earlier, hearing wingers saying “Palestine is not even a country, it was made up by the libs/Muslims, using the term ‘Palestinian’ is talking nonsense”, and so on.
“A land without a people for a people without a land” is an old Zionist settler colonial propaganda piece that is supported by Zionist liberals as well. This coincides with Israeli “culture”, which is a weird mix of vaguely European, vaguely Jewish-ish, and the appropriation of Levantine culture. For example, going around calling hummus and pita “Israeli foods”.
Just to help illustrate.
The Israelis have used that line since before 1948. Standard colonial cultural erasure.
The Palestinians had a chance under Harris.
based on what data? You’re just making stuff up.
The Palestinians had a chance under Harris.
No, they didn’t.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to get through the night, buddy.
Right back atcha.
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The Palestinians had a chance under Harris.
Doubtful: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/15/biden-israel-gaza-palestine
One mention of Harris to say she’s not taking over for Biden
Harris had the exact same line on Israel as Biden and is literally part of the Biden-Harris administration.
There is no reason to think Harris would’ve been any different than Biden on this issue. She repeatedly said she was in agreement with Biden on this, i don’t care if it was during an election people need more to go on than the hope that she really feels different inside
That’s cool because Trump stance was even more extreme, but since he’s saying insane things every minute, no one batted an eye. But Harris had to be perfect. How do you even reconcile what you say with the reality you have in front of you.
Trump said in no uncertain terms that he would back Israel, he’s confirming it today and you still spout that “both sides” inane shit.
What more do you need to admit that your point is bullshit.
With Harris, there was a sliver of hope that there could be change and with Trump it was sure that Israel would do whatever it wanted. You look at that shitty situation all around, and you still think Harris was the worst choice versus the openly fascist dictator?
There is no sane universe where you can defend that point of view, yet here we are.
Palestine is fucked, good luck Ukraine, and fuck any American that isn’t white, Christian and straight I guess. But hey, both sides, right?
But Harris had to be perfect.
Your idea of perfect is to not be a genocide supporter?
Every fucking thing she said was scrutinized, analyzed and critiqued/mocked while Trump would say the heinous unhinged shit and no one batted an eye.
That’s cool, you got what you want now and Gaza is becoming Israel new beach front. I hope you meet a Palestinian that got family killed someday and tell them that you didn’t support a genocide supporter. That’ll make them feel funny inside.
Every fucking thing she said was scrutinized […]
You are saying this in response to people saying they wouldn’t tolerate genocide.
That’s cool, you got what you want now and Gaza is becoming Israel new beach front.
There have been no policy changes. This is your ghouls running the show, 13 months of unconditional support for genocide. If any part of “the electorate” owns this, it is yours. You did not step up and say, “no more, that is too far”.
Though of course the party does not care about you and they are thr ones making these policy decisions with donor input.
I hope you meet a Palestinian that got family killed someday and tell them that you didn’t support a genocide supporter.
I already know many Palestinians that have lost family. I organize with some of them, their views are my views on this. You clearly aren’t embedded in this community because you assume everyone else is just as detached.
That’ll make them feel funny inside.
Palestinians are not your rhetorical toy to play with when you run out of ways to handle your cognitive dissonance for having sold your soul to support someone that lost anyways. Please take some time to do self-criticism now that you have objective proof that you were not being strategic or smart about this, as you clearly gave up on being morally correct.
I think many people felt that Harris was a failure, just as they felt Biden was a failure. And she didn’t have to be.
Don’t run a bad candidate if you wanna win. This is common sense. And if you try anyway and lose, don’t blame others for it.
Why do Democrats have to field the perfect candidate while Republicans can run anyone and still win?
It fucking sucks that the DNC fielded a mid candidate, but let’s not put all the blame on them. It seems like the threat of Trump wasn’t big enough for Democrat voters to get out and vote. The guy that said that he would retaliate against his political opponents and would be a dictator from day one.
You know that you can vote for a candidate and still demand better from them after the election, right?
At one point, Americans will have to stop taking disagreements personally and unite.
Why do Democrats have to field the perfect candidate
You mean a genocide supporter?
Yeah, because Trump endlessly said they were failures and the corporate media unquestioningly repeated it.
But Harris had to be perfect.
You’re lying again. No one asked for perfect. They asked for neutral instead of aiding far right wing terrorists. All she had to do was follow our existing laws and stop the shipments. Its not a lot.
The second that Harris breathed wrong, news were all over it, while Trump had the “what he said might put him in trouble” while spouting racist and/or fascist non-stop.
But now it’s futile. You got what you deserve.
as did you.
Let’s be real. The Zionists in charge are Nazis and there was never a path out of genocide in these elections.
Such a fucking idiotic take… I’m sure Palestinians will take heart in this sentiment when they get gassed out of existence on January 21.
I’m not happy about it either.
The Zionist entity, generally speakinf, does not use gas. They use large scake bombing campaigns and white phosphorus. This has already been happening for 13 months, if you weren’t aware.
It’s also part of the evangelical grifter prophecy that the Jews be in control of all of old Isreal before the apocalypse starts.
Trump will dismantle this country and the Christians will cheer it on as society circles the drain because the version of their book that was rewritten in the 70s says so.
It will at least be funny to see them all realize that the “rapture” probably already happened and they’re all still here XD
The Rapture happened, three Quakers, a Unitarian and a radical Catholic nun disappeared mysteriously, otherwise business as usual.
Trump will dismantle this country and the Christians will cheer it on as society circles the drain
These idiots should be disqualified for holding office, since at least some of them, and/or the people they represent, simply don’t think this world matters, but only their fictional eschatology.
It’s bananas when you actually talk to some of them. Weirdly, though, some of them are still preppers. Wait, I thought you will be one of the blessed chosen ones in the end times? WTF are they stockpiling MREs and thinking they’ll be hunting for deer with a bow and arrow or some shit…none of their plans - if you can call them that - make any fucking sense, but they want to rule so that they can drag more advanced people, cultures, and societies down with them into their lunacy and their absolute literal hellscape.
Let’s be discerning: there was the potential for a better path out of this, but people decided on the definitely-worst-case-for-everything option on this binary choice, to ensure everyone suffers as much as possible in every situation, most assuredly during the belligerent invasion by Israel.
It was explained over and over; you need more time?
Let’s be discerning: there was the potential for a better path out of this
Harris, of the Biden-Harris regime that has been the necessary backer of this genocide for 13 months, did nothing different from Biden rhetorically and was an empty suit candidate that holds the party line. A party whose reoresentatives almost unanimously provide the material support needed for this genocide despite 70-80% of their constituents opposing it.
The “better path” you are referring to is literally unconditional support for genocide. I slmost said you were describing the better path, but you didn’t actually describe what it looks like. Presumably, you cannot.
but people decided on the definitely-worst-case-for-everything option on this binary choice, to ensure everyone suffers as much as possible in every situation, most assuredly during the belligerent invasion by Israel.
Who provided you with these choices? Have you considered looking at politics as more than just which monster to press a button for?
It was explained over and over; you need more time?
There was a peeiod, maybe two months, when I could barely get Harris supporters to even say the word genocide. What do you think you are explaining?
Harris just needed to stop the shipments to win the election and she wouldnt do it. She had a billion dollars of pollster and consultant data to tell her this. But its everyone elses fault she lost?
Lol, no. Gaza didn’t lose Harris the election. Sadly, America cares less for Gaza than they do for women’s health, that Trump is a traitor and a convicted felon, or actually understanding the economy. Eggs are expensive so Dems bad.
She wouldn’t have won the elections even if she did that. The pro-Zionist Democratic Party vote far exceeds the vote for evenhandedness or pro-Palestinian policies.
Around 70-80% of Democratic voters are against the US sending weapons to Israel. The people most committed to this are younger, they are the people that Dems rely on to have any kind of ground game. Accordingly, Dems had no ground game.
All Harris had to do was cynically oppose the genocide by threatening literally any kind of restrictions and to cynically claim to do something about high prices at the grocery store. In both cases she waffled.
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