Progressives acknowledging the fact of genocide is a good first step, and it’s useful that Ocasio-Cortez and others have done so — “I think [unconditional aid to Israel] enabled a genocide in Gaza,” she said in Munich — but it is not in and of itself sufficient. Before anyone in the party can move on to selling a post-Biden vision of human-rights-first foreign policy, they must address what accountability for the war criminals in the Biden administration — those who aided, armed, and funded genocide — should look like.

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    sure. on topics that are largely just bullet points and trading cards to collect.

    but some topics are themselves so important the choice around them outranks all other topics. genocide being one of them. no?

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      If the Republicans were better than Democrats on the issue, this would make sense.

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        This is the crux. It’s not about voting for genocide or not genocide; it’s about voting for genocide, or genocide with a side of fascism. There’s a clearly better choice. If you’re a left-leaning person and you choose to vote third party instead of voting for the less- or non-fascist candidate, you’re not only wasting your vote, but you’re directly contributing to things like we’re experiencing right now. If you think Harris would have been worse for the country, or for Gaza, than Trump is, I think you’re delusional.

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          why would one vote for genocide at all? because you’re scared of fascism?

          note: fascism is here on the dem and rep sides both. dem are just better at hiding it

          i’d rather vote for anyone other than rep or dem at this point.

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      Found the single issue voter that helped put Trump in the Oval Office.

      I’d be open about what I think of single issue voters, but that could net me a ban even on Lemmy.

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        found the pro genocide “just ignore the genocide of brown folks because i care about me more” voter.

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          You really think your non-vote that enabled Trump, ICE, doge, RFKJr, etc really made the world a better place?

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            how did it enable anything when the number of 3rd party voters plus harris voters would still not have beaten trump?

            try again genocide supporter.