I provided instructions for trolls in my post, but you seem to have missed that part in the bits you quoted. Despite my policy on feeding trolls, I'll repeat that I'm not endorsing the actions of the Netanyahu government.

I know, but also don't care.

f you want to put your head in the sand and pretend that foreign intelligence isn't influencing nearly every flavor of social media on the internet, that's on you.

Of course it is, but that's neither here nor there. The implication that outrage at Biden's support for Israel is mostly a result of that influence is, however, fucking ridiculous. Why do you believe that people can't exercise their right to hold their elected politicians accountable without it being a Russian or Israeli plot?

Withholding votes does not motivate politicians in any democratic system in the world. The math simply doesn't work.

Threatening to withhold votes certainly does, because those politicians are at least ostensibly trying to get elected. That's why Democratic politicians throw breadcrumbs for their constituents and have a milquetoast-but-better-than-nothing stance on civil rights, and it's what Uncommitted tried to do.

As you've clearly come to understand, the uncommitted movement was an abject failure. That you continue to cling to the idea that it failed due to rational progressives makes me wonder if you are a troll yourself.

I'm trying really hard not to break rule 3 right now. What kind of pressure campaign would have satisfied your rational sensibilities?

Uncommitted is not how political shifts happen in the United States.

Then how do they?

Increasingly it is single issue voters like you, who don't like how a candidate positions on a single issue and chooses to abstain or vote for the other side. To be clear, that's your choice and I wouldn't fault you for standing on your principles if you weren't simultaneously complaining about the outcome of standing on those principles.

This isn't the outcome of anti-genocide principles; it's the result of decades of lesser evil politics, which America is clearly done with. This downfall of American democracy did not start in 2024. Ever heard of the gambler's ruin? Well welcome to the centrist's ruin, where you keep betting your democracy until the far right eats it all.

As it is, you promoted a failed political strategy that, not wholly but certainly in part, led to the reelection of Trump and the MAGAs.

Again, what better strategy would you have promoted that would have led to change?

I voted for the candidate who would most plausibly bring about a less horrific end to the Gaza conflict. This was NEVER about dismissing concerns about a group of people on the other side of the planet, it was ALWAYS about making the best choice for THIS country.

What less horrific end? Genocide with rainbows? And in the first place do you seriously think a government that ran on dismissing genocide would be anything but an appetizer to fascism? If they don't care about brown people on the other side of the world, they don't care about you.

Please take my deepest apologies if the truth of what I'm saying is upsetting. Progressivism has never been about getting everything you want in a perfect candidate, it has always been about compromising in order to achieve incremental improvements.

Has anyone ever told you you're patronizing? And in the first place what improvements? Your program of compromise and incremental change has led to, or at least failed to prevent, capital F Fascism in the United States. Maybe try something else next time, if there is a next time.

PS: Now is probably a good time to mention that I'm not American.