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What’s really trite and “privelaged” is scolding others because they didn’t make Palestine their only voting concern. I guess the death of the US and every vulnerable group in it is worth it to people with that opinion.
On a very personal level, I’m trans. Your voting ideology has directly contributed to the loss of my rights, my safety, and my future. Go ahead and scold me because some bomb I had no say in was used halfway across the world to kill children. I just wanted people to vote for the person who wouldn’t make SS black bag people in broad daylight.
That was a winnable race. Harris dchose to lose listening to her zionist boss, her zionist husband and her zionist campaign manager brother in law. I am just a voter with some ethics unlike you lot of war crimes jrs.
No, you aren’t a voter. You told us you didn’t vote (for president anyway). That’s the point.
Your moral grandstanding helped make the very issue you are championing completely unrecoverable, and a bunch of us are now under the bus as a result. Palestinians are almost certain to be wiped out now, no matter how badly many of us wanted to end the genocide and hold Israel accountable. You have cut off your nose to spite your face.
I see, so its the anti genocide/“basic human rights arent negotiable” side thats at fault for the US falling apart?
I see, so it’s the anti-fascist/“basic human rights apply in our country too” side who are at fault for the genocide of Palestinians? 🙄
So your “fighting fascists” fight is simply to vote for one of their manufactured war crimes choices both of which demanded you personally be accountable for assisting in murder?
Fascism lite is still fascism. Killing fewer people is still killing, and its wildly illegal and immoral, full stop.
Harris’s platform was wildly illegal and immoral. So was trumps. I’m not about to be nagged or threatened into giving my vote to either of those camps.
If that means the country burns itself down then thats fine, we just get a chance to get to the endgame faster where we build it back up to something better. There was nothing down the road of siding with Harris except more zionist puppeteering, and training you all to be nazi prison guards while you deal with the cognitive dissonance of Harris continuing the genocide after you had a hand in getting her in office.
So your anti-genocide “vote” of “not voting” was to be accellerationist and to maximize casualties? My vote means that I’m immoral and your inaction means you’re some saint? Right. Gotcha.
EDIT: Just editing this to include your current message before you completely change the content of your comment, like you seem to be doing more now that you’re losing your bullshit argument everywhere.
Every month from becoming the nominee until the election Harris campaigned on a cease fire, hostage release, and a two state solution.
These are not “wildly illegal” or genocidal statements. You just refused to see it. Now we have Trump who wants to clear everyone from Gaza for hotels and golf courses. Good jorb!
July: https://www.the-independent.com/tv/news/kamala-harris-says-two-state-solution-is-the-only-path-after-meeting-with-netanyahu-b2586161.html
August: https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/23/politics/gaza-israel-harris-convention-speech/index.html
September: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-harris-says-two-state-solution-end-of-israel-hamas-war-is-crucial
October: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/harris-dodges-direct-question-on-palestinian-deaths-calls-for-2-state-solution-during-cnn-town-hall/3372480
Actions speak louder than words.
As a Presidential Candidate, legally, she could take no actions unless she won the election.
She told you, REPEATEDLY, what she would do:
Cease fire, hostage release, two state solution.
You call that “genocide”.
Did you do everything you possibly could to save those human beings that are being murdered with our bombs and political support? did you make it plain to our dnc leadership that you werent just playing chicken, you werent going to just let them do whatever evil shit they wanted, even at the cost of your rights and your day to day life and trans rights?
No. You didnt. You chose 4 years of trans rights and your own pathetic safety instead. And now you get neither. If you’d pushed back on Harris maybe she would have had a chance but you didnt and you lost. Harris chose to risk the republic, including your trans rights and she didnt pull off her plan to both keep the zionist money on her side and win.
Judging by history, you losing your trans rights in the tiniest bit of pain that we’ll all go through before this is better and non criminal adults are in charge again. People are going to starve to death and be violently beaten up and have all of their rights taken away for BS reasons. Thats whats next-- a taste of what this country has been meting out to innocents and not really caring about.
EDIT: Can’t stand to keep your bullshit unedited? Not going to go on about how I only choose my safety and trans rights now and I have blood on my hands? Gonna pivot to the dem primaries, which in my state only had Biden on the ballot?