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Still not voting for genocide.
If things get worse, we'll just have to do something other than vote won't we?
If you don't want to vote for genocide you need to move to a different country, because that's never gonna change
I'm right where I need to be. 😉
"Still not voting for genocide"
You say as you side with Hamas who openly calls for the genocide of the Jewish race.
They don't do that these days, and all the people that did are dead at this point. The lifespan for Palestinians is pretty short.
What, are you gonna be on the front lines with your guns shooting? The overwhelming majority of people with this mindset have never held a firearm in their entire lives and have no idea what they're even talking about. What are you even insinuating here? Is your end goal that we burn the entire country down because "wahhhhh both sides aren't perfect"? Grow up, only children refuse to see greater good through compromise because they can't see past not getting what they want. Single issue voters love to stick their head in the sand and pretend the one issue that they're whinging about is the most important in the world.
Have fun standing on your "genocide" comment when you're in a fascist dictatorship run by nazis. "but but but the genocide wah"
I'm insinuating that we can become ungovernable and force the government to capitulate to our demands. Mass protest, general strike, public disruptions, boycott, we have options to fight back.
Instead of just voting every couple years.
Hey guess what? Fascists dont give a fuck about that shit, youll end up in a puddle of your own blood cause ya wont have the numbers. If it didnt work out for the fighters at Blair mountain a hundred year ago what makes ya think youll achieve anything.
Fuck ya'd have a better chance doing random acts of terrorism that put the fucken IRA to shame. Still probably end up in a ditch but you could probably kill some of the ones trying to kill you.
If you actually believed this sky is falling bullshit you'd be doing a hell of a lot more than voting. Do you even own a gun? lol
EDIT sorry don't answer that. What I mean I, I doubt you own a gun because you do not believe you'd ever need one, because you do not believe fascism is actually coming. This is all rhetoric.
We don't talk about that on Lemmy.
You're organizing those things, or at least joining others who are organizing, right?
As much as we can, plus financial support.
But I'm not going to organize a protest in a rural cornfield lol
So you support genocide because you live in a cornfield? Cool.
It's not like you're out there fucking volunteering for Harris anyway. Do you want Trump to win??? 🙄
Another narcissistic comment. You assume everyone else must live in a cornfield doing nothing because you do. SAD, especially since you support genocide.
I know, for a fact, that most people don't do anything political other than vote every few years. I'm assuming you're one of them.
Am I wrong?
I donate to bail funds and resistance orgs.
I bet you haven't donated to Harris.
Why not both?
Go ahead.
But I'm not voting for genocide. I'd rather die.
You first.
That's... Not how it works?
We do it together..
But instead you'll do nothing, and feel smug about it.
I donate to bail funds and support resistance groups financially, because I live in the middle of fucking nowhere and there aren't protests for me to join.
So you support genocide because you live "nowhere"? OK.
Yeah I'm pretty pathetic - I'm doing as much to stop genocide as you are to stop Trump lol
Start one then if you feel that strongly about what's going on in Gaza
How many hours have you volunteered for Harris? Don't you want to stop Trump?
Over people dying in another country? And not for important things like disenfranchising and taxes?
Yikes. Genocide is pretty fucking important.
Important, but not to the level of civil disobedience like when we protested police abuse and systemic racism. Like a 4/10 judging by people's actions.
2023 was the most deadly year for police shootings. Systemic racism and police abuse didn't go away. Yet, no one is in the street.
Why do you think that is?
Guess you're not voting then.
I was going to write in Aaron Bushnell for President but I think I'll vote PSL
Genocide isn't on the ballet
It is if you don't vote for the two genocidal candidates. There are non genocidal choices, even if they're just protest votes.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face.
Don't support genocide.
Democracy exist so we don't have to reach that point, please, go vote.
Half the presidents in my lifetime lost the popular vote.
Aaaaaand that's a block