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No more support for zionists. Waltz is a zionist.
Ah, so you only care if one group gets genocide. Everyone else can get fucked, right?
No, we should strive for a candidate who is against all genocide. Let's not compromise in advance.
And who would that be?
What a sad question when you remove the snark from it.
Like honestly, the reality behind that is just sad.
You have a myopia that makes you incapable of looking past a single election. It is that myopia that has gotten us to this point here. Cycle after cycle of blind, zero-thought "blue no matter who" has made the democratic power-brokers completely disconnected from the base. You're going to vote for them no matter what, so your opinions, thoughts, and desires are absolutely irrelevant. You do not matter to the political process at all.
Outside of all that garbage, who would you choose as a perfect American politician that would take a hard stance against Israel? Has to be a real person and has to be an American politician, no pipe dreams.
I'm not American (but we do get a lot of US Pol foisted on us), so forgive me if I'm missing something... I thought the US democratic party was basically everyone more left wing than Joe Manchin. There are 'third parties', but in general the broad church argument applies... Anyway aren't USians able to actually pick the candidates that stand for those parties? So wouldn't you use the generals to vote 'against' Republicans, but then use the primaries process to vote for the shape of D you wanted? Here that's not an option, the party puts up candidates. But you have the ability to pressure the candidates even after they are elected. Might be a long shot, but is inherently less fatalistic than just giving up, or even (as seems disturbingly popular these days) calling for some form of civil war.
If they don't care about brown people in the Middle East, they don't care about you. Y'all's inability to understand this got you Trump, so don't repeat that mistake. Fascism abroad tends to be the preamble to fascism at home.
We got trump because people like I ke you stayed home.
I struggle to see how proto-fascism now devolving into better-prepared fascism four years later would've been better than fascism now. And don't give me the "it gives us time to resist" spiel because we both know that's not how that ever worked; time to prepare only benefits the far right.
So what's your solution? Just keep fucking losing?
No, stop following the neoliberals while they snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I still remember the "progressive" reaction to Uncommitted and to calls for Biden to step down. If you're not willing to coerce the DNC neoliberals into doing what you want, you'll always be stuck doing what they want. And do you know what they want? Proto-fascism with rainbows and glitter.
Coerce them. Sure. But almost any but the most backward dem would be better then Trump. You are just being asked to fill out a circle people have died to achieve less.
Great, now what kind of coercion do you support if you won't even threaten to withhold your vote?
We got Trump because people like you thought supporting genocide was more important than winning the election
I am sure the people being sent to death camps are very grateful.
No point in arguing, the box is empty.
You lot considered continuing to operate the world's largest death camp to be more important than stopping Trump.
And now we got new ones. Thanks buddy
Guess you shouldn't have prioritised committing genocide
Oh. I am talking to a republican. Okay good bye now.
You are not. Though even if you were, that would be a lazy adhominem
you are the one accusing me of supporting genocide. While helping cause several others.