• cogman@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Produce any media where she even hinted at having a different Gaza policy.

    Israel started the genocide early after Oct 7, it’s not escalated. They’re already leveled over 80% of Gaza and destroyed every hospital and piece of infrastructure under Biden.

    Tell me, how is that at all different from Trump’s current policy?

    Edit: for the down voters, I don’t care. My point is made by you not being able to do anything other than down vote. You know I’m right and that makes you mad. No media exists which will absolve Kamala on Israel.

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      Here’s one of her staffers explaining the difference, since the difference is so fucking hard for certain people to comprehend. It wasn’t going to be fantastic, but I stand by my statement that only absolute fucking morons think they would have been the same. Because those people can’t understand there are shades of awful or the difference between bad, and fucking gone.

      That mentality is the textbook definition of cutting your nose off to spite your face. Voting for Kamala was attempting stem the bleeding, and people decided to cut a limb off instead. It’s a shame that so many more people are going to suffer for their choice. And I really hope the naked fascism that these people directly contributed to via tacit support (thanks non voters!) isn’t as bad as it will be, all because they wanted to play purity politics.

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        Former staffer that resigned because of the Gaza policy and was not involved in the 2024 election.

        From the article, since you didn’t bother to read.

        Harris has not been the candidate many of us wanted. Her candidacy is historic, but she and the Democratic Party have failed to champion a truly progressive agenda — one needed not only to motivate her base, but to take on the right wing’s increasingly fascist policies and rhetoric. It has been devastating to see Harris refuse to break with Biden on Israel, adopt xenophobic talking points about immigration policy, and campaign alongside hawkish, pro-war Republicans.

        And yeah, I 100% agree with the author. Her position is and remains mine. If you’d bother to read the article, you’d see she even supported the uncommitted movement, which guess who the protest voters were?

        You are struggling to square away that I have empathy and understand why people couldn’t stomach Harris. Stop calling people “morons” because they can’t as easily justify genocide as you can.

        Also do note that rather than addressing my challenge, you proved my point. Harris had identical Gaza policies to Biden and the only reason to vote for her was the fact that there were some pro Palestinian Democrats. You vote for her not because she’s better in Gaza, but out of the hope that members of her caucus could moderate her position.

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          Really fucking rich accusing me of not reading the article when you stopped reading as soon as your opinion was validated.

          From the article, since you didn’t bother to read to the end:

          The painful reality is that the movement for Palestinian rights has not acquired the political power necessary to stop the genocide that we have all watched unfold over the last year. And ultimately, it is progressive movements - not Harris and the Democrats - who will suffer the most under a second Trump term. We cannot abdicate our power within the Democratic Party, limited as it may be, for the sake of trying to punish the party’s leadership. We must block Trump and the fascist right, while at the same time demanding change from our leaders, continuing to agitate for an arms embargo with every resource we have.

          And yeah, I 100% agree with the author. Her position is and remains mine. If you’d bother to read the whole article, you’d see that she’s telling you not to take the path you did.

          This is why I said what I said, and chose not to respond to anything else.

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          Stop calling people “morons” because they can’t as easily justify genocide as you can.

          I think it’s more regarding their lack of ability to see nuance. If your choices are genocide and genocide lite, yeah, they’re both fucking bad, but maybe with lite, we can have more time to effect real change vs Trump, under whom we are guaranteed to see absolutely no change in a positive direction. I’d rather take 1% over 0%.

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            23 hours ago

            There is no genocide lite. It’s just genocide with better marketing.

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              How about calling it genocide vs even-more-genocide? Does that make the distinction any clearer between the choices that were available? Whether we like it or not (and I’m 100% in the latter group) ‘no genocide’ was not on the menu

              Don’t get me wrong, I’m disgusted by the state of politics in this country, and would not have voted for Kamala had there been any other person on the ballot that had a realistic choice of winning. But the choice was what we had, and we knew the outcome was going to be bad but workable or fucking awful naked fascism. And so many people chose fucking awful naked fascism in the face of not being able to hold up their moral purity, and now make arguments like she would have done all the awful shit that trump was telling us he was going to do.

              That’s why I said what I said. And if you actually read the article I linked above instead of taking what the other user cherry picked out, you’ll see that even the staffer who left because of Gaza said we should have voted for her for basically the reason of what we’re seeing happen.

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              You’re not wrong, by all means. Either way you also need to be doing anything you can like protesting in the streets, boycotting anything that supports Israel, and support organizations that help Palestine. But I’d rather buy time for there to still be a Gaza to fight for, personally.

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      1 day ago

      That is some heavy copium your on buddy. You might want to step down on your doses before you do permanent damage.

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        My position has been rock solid through the entire election. Feel free to look through my past comments.

        The only ones coping are you guys that are just becoming aware of genocide because Trump is also supporting it.

        Keep getting mad and ignoring anyone who doesn’t 100% carry water for Democrats. I’m sure that will continue to be electorially successful.