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[–] emmy67@lemmy.world 44 points 11 hours ago (13 children)

Nobody expects Kamala to solve it. They do expect her to stop supporting genocide.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 33 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Kamala might fund genocide in Israel. But Trump will fund genocide in Israel, and genocide here.

We can be ideologically pure when we don’t have fascists at the doorstep. Thousands of children just FUCKING VANISHED during Trumps term. What’s going to happen during his second? Texas was (is?) putting barbed wire in the river on the fucking border. Trump will give free rein to murderous politicians (Texas is also about to execute another innocent man btw). People are going to die here.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 10 points 9 hours ago

I watched the presidential debate between Harris and Trump, and one of Harris's main talking points was that the Republicans weren't doing enough at the border.

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[–] orcrist@lemm.ee -2 points 3 hours ago

Who cares about snubbing Harris? That's just nonsense. We vote because the policies matter, not because a human being we never met would feel bad if she lost.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago (13 children)

Oh yes. This will surely win over those far left voters.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Insulting people is how you get voters, right?

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

600 upvotes you reddit migrants must be proud

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[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 15 points 9 hours ago

When strawman versus just one person isn't anywhere near enough

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 34 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Trump would be a disaster for the middle east. He wouldn't even be good for Israel. Sure, he'd support Israel now, but Trump loves strongman leaders, and there are plenty of them in the middle east, so he'd love Netanyahu, but he'd probably also cozy up to any other regional strongmen and destabilize things even more.

But, the Biden/Harris admin has been effectively sponsoring the genocide by giving military aid to Israel. It's clear that Israel is the biggest military power in the region, and it has been for decades. It has no need for military aid. The best way to help civilians is to make Israel afraid to piss off its neighbors. Right now it's convinced it could beat them in any war, so it's happy to grind the Palestinians into dust, daring Iran, Egypt, etc. to interfere.

Yes, it's a complex geopolitical issue, and an all-out regional war would put many more civilians in danger, not just the Palestinians. But, giving military aid to Israel while they engage in genocide isn't a good way to prevent a regional war.

Even if you're a single-issue voter who doesn't care about women's reproductive health, doesn't care about the rule of law, doesn't care about free speech, doesn't care about corruption, and is only 100% focused on the fate of Palestinians, even then you should be voting for Harris. Even if you don't like her policies, there's still a slight chance she'd listen to reason once elected. Trump would be an utter disaster.

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[–] GhostFaceSkrilla@lemmy.world 116 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (80 children)

This is extremely misleading. Fuck Trump 10000 times and kamala is the only sane choice, but stop trying to paint over reality to try and make her look like she's not just a lesser evil.

She didn't just "not promise to solve 1000 year conflict" (which the genocide has been going on for the last 75 years),

she did promise to continue funding genocide with American taxpayer dollars. (Of which the US has been giving and average of $5 billion in tax dollars and weapons to Isreal per year for the last 75 years, since they first invaded Palestine).

We are voting for her because she is the lesser evil. We don't have to be happy about it or stop criticizing her on her bad policies.

Basically: Vote for Harris, but also fuck her for vowing to continue funding genocide. Trump would also keep funding genocide, and he'd also destroy what's left of the west, on top of every other obvious reason he should never be in power again (and never should have been).

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 53 points 13 hours ago

OP consistently makes posts that only divide the Dem base.

Considering they started out with AI posts lying about early voting, I guess it's an improvement?

[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 29 points 12 hours ago

Right wing morons and shills can't exactly base their arguments on how much better Republicans are, so they come at it sideways with this bullshit.

Well, jokes on them because "the left" isn't made up of complete morons like they have in the MAGA movement. Despite neoliberal whining to the contrary, the left has been consistently the most reliable voting demographic the Democrats have, and that's despite the fact that the establishment shits on us at every opportunity.

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[–] leadore@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago

At least the meme acknowledges what a messed up hair trigger situation it is there, as it has been forever, and debunks the naive belief that USA simply cutting off its support would magically bring peace to the region instead of World War 3.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

That's not far left, it's undereducated middle of the road (with instinctual appeal to right tendencies)

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