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I'll give you a huge one.
Purity tests (when cosplaying as liberals). If a person isn't super-duper liberal on every single issue then you can't support them.
There's tons of this on this very site. People who will tell you they'll stay home and not vote for someone, if they only support 80% of what they seemingly want. People see this, then emulate said behavior.
Somehow, liberals would rather get 0% of what they want instead of 50% because of the missed 30% that the candidate doesn't support.
If the 20% they don't support is the absolute most basic of human rights, then as far as I can tell they actually support 0% of what I want.
genocide is not something you negotiate away. Some things arent for sale. If you choose to whore for those sweet sweet zionist paychecks, thats on you. Dont project that vileness on others.
Was this supposed to be a demonstration of projection? If so, well done.
Genocide is not something you stay at home for and hope it goes away on its own.
You don't get to claim the ally if all you did was nothing.
OP criticized people who stayed home (choosing to hold on to their purity) instead of voting for the candidates least likely to perpetuate futher suffering.
Going "oh no this trolley problem is so terrible I refuse to even look at the lever" is prioritizing your own moral superiority over the people tied to the tracks.
Further
And such imply that we are voting to start one or not. That's not on the ballot. The war has already started and we are asking people to vote for the side that cares more about ending it.
It really shows how privileged we are that we take a luxury of picking allies.
Even if someone is taking the position of total Palestine Victory the dems are the better pick as they most likely lead to being ableyto fight another day.
People who didn't vote because the dems aren't perfect are the worst allies.
It's hard to take seriously people who describe "actively committing genocide" as "not perfect"
Damn soldier, you have a lot of luxury commenting from the front line.
Lmk how abstaining strategy is working. Read the part I wrote about living to fight another day.
Maybe take your brain out of the box and wear it.
And you are on the front line? What is your point?
And no, Democrats give Palestinians no better chance of fighting another day, that just give liberals a license to pretend the genocide isn't happening.
Maybe you should take your brain out of your skull and wear it.
I'm telling you to put up or shut up. Making purity tests for what is a good ally for those actually dying is insanely tone deaf.
I agree 100% with the purity test thing, but "liberal" ≠ leftist. That's not a purity thing, it's a "words have specific definitions" thing.
I know idiot tankies say this, and I know they are annoying when they constantly use "liberal" as an insult... But it is technically correct that they are two distinct ideologies (with some overlap).
Sure. My point stands. A leftist will get 30-50% of what they want with a Democrat in office compared to 0% of what they want.
A toddler can work out it's better that you get a small portion of what you want, instead of nothing. It's really that simple.
People who abstain from voting dem need to read that.
If committing genocide is bipartisan policy for the US, then what I want as a leftist is for the US to collapse.
You act like that'll improve the genocide situation. We're in the middle of a collapse and the new godking is ALL OVER more genocide.
The US will change hands, but it won't be to the people...
Politicians you don't like can make good policies and politicians you do like can make bad policies. Parties are not football teams for you to take blind sides and politicians are not celebrities to be veneered blindly. They are public servants, nothing more.
It's a global phenomenon, but Americans are particularly affect by the false dichotomy fallacy of having the two sides of political spectrum represented when, in reality, they just have two flavors of right to choose from. Both are shit in their own way.
People love to turn off their brains and follow the leadership. That's what makes us easily manipulable. It's not because someone aligns politically with you that they are working with your best interest in mind.
Sorry for the random rambling.
Yeah, and you'd think that even leftists would agree that having the people in charge that want cheaper college, and cheaper medicine/healthcare would be the better option, even if (from their lens) they are a right wing party.
Not if it means exterminating whole races overseas
The 30% is active genocide
Dude, you guys don't give a shit that Myanmar is in a civil war, Sudan is in a civil war, China is ethnically cleansing Uighur Muslims, and that India and Pakistan are in almost-open conflict.
You put the fact that a trump ally in Israel wouldn't listen to Democrats solely on the shoulders of Biden and Harris while completely not giving a singular fuck about any of those other conflicts.
This is why people like you are the PERFECT definition of slactivists, who are looking for a reason to not get a portion of what you want so you can feel morally superior to others for not participating in democracy.
Get over yourself.
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/06_iran_strategy.pdf
Whataboutism.
No. Democratic loyalists are hellbent on rewriting history to erase the truth, and to cover up the fact that the Democratic party were and are active supporters and participants in the Gaza genocide, and that is at least as dangerous as anything MAGA is doing.
This is a completely insane way to describe opposition to genocide.
Stop supporting genocide
The problem is, the other option is 70% genocide. So by not voting for the 30% genocide, you're enabling the 70% genocide.
No, I mean the 30% of their policy that we disagree with is their 100% support for genocide.
And the republicans have 70% of their policy be genocide. Not just genocide of the palestinians, but genocide of non-gender conforming people and non-straight people.
It's like comparing someone who doesn't care that someone in another country is killing people, with someone who actively wants to kill people in your own back yard, and also doesn't give a shit that someone is killing people in another country. By not voting for the first person, you're allowing the second person do to whatever they want.
Edit to add: Democrats will let palestinians die horribly. That is bad and needs to be adressed.
But:
Sheeeeet hahaha drifting baby
See, right here: you've collapsed your whole argument by showing that even you aren't willing to make a lesser argument for the actual democratic party, the one that was an active and willfully participant in genocide. You have to make up a genocide denying set of alternate facts where the democrats were just "not caring that someone in another country is killing people" (which is, again, genocide denialism) in order to present a sugar coated version of the democratic party that is actually palatable.
Democratic loyalists are hellbent on rewriting history to erase the truth, and to cover up the fact that the Democratic party were and are active supporters and participants in the Gaza genocide, and that is at least as dangerous as anything MAGA is doing.
And you keep denying that the republican administration is CURRENTLY actively supporting the genocide, along with imprisoning people in concentration camps. You're not arguing in good faith, and I'm not wasting any more of my time on you.
Apparently the mods consider it perfectly acceptable for MBech to openly lie about me and directly insult me based on that knowing lie, but will remove my comment if I respond. Why even have rules if the mods are just going to ignore them?
Since I am not american I may have missed something; to my knowledge no genocide got stopped or even prevented since trump once again got to power. What is your opinion on this matter?
My opinion is that doesn't make opposition to genocide "purity testing"
It's still happening though
I never said otherwise.
You didn't clarify either
Ok. You didn't clarify that you're not a child molester either. What's your point?
You argue with the intent to win, not discuss. You ignore counterpoints and just restate how your belief is correct. Your point is clear, but you act like no one else's point has any merit because their "argument immediately fails"
Allowing the current administration to take control, either by voting Trump, third party, or abstaining, allowed the acceleration of the genocide and the cruelty... as well as accelerating the suffering/cruelty of other at-risk populations
But you will pick my argument apart based on how I "argued wrong" and act as if I don't see your point... while simultaneously ignoring mine and restating yours with more words
It's divisive and hardlined, and you don't allow space for discussion with understanding. Your point is clear, is more than meritful, and I agree that the democrats were active participants. My point is that allowing Trump to lead his cult from the Oval Office again, is more damaging than the pushover Democrats. And that damage will be more destructive and harder to repair. And Palestinians still suffer, with even more gusto now, and every avenue to help stop it is being rapidly cut off
Does my point have merit? Is there any middle ground that you can see? Or do you prefer a factioned populace of opinions that stirs divisiveness, and allows a unified fascism to grab more ground... rather than allowing a discussion that may not end in agreement, but may allow a sense of comradery
Am I wrong, or are you just right?
No. That's you.
This is a false assertion, and I don't know why you put the last bit in quotes.
No. It didn't. You were just unwilling to admit the scope of the genocide when it was your team doing it. This why I find these lesser evil arguments unconvincing: because they always come from people who consistently deny the evil of their side.
Again, this is a false assertion, and I don't know why you put part of it in quotes.
Again, no, that's you.
And yet you seem very unhappy about me disagreeing with the person denying they were active participants.
Maybe, but it remains the case that opposition to the democratic party because they are actively genocidal is not just "purity testing".
No. Again: lesser evil arguments are very unconvincing if they come from people who consistently downplay their sides evil.
Right back at you, mate. You spent more words attacking me then actually making a point.