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Yeah, both sides amiright?

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[–] Bookmeat@lemmy.world 12 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Let's be real. The Zionists in charge are Nazis and there was never a path out of genocide in these elections.

[–] SquatDingloid@lemmy.world 4 points 36 minutes ago

It's also part of the evangelical grifter prophecy that the Jews be in control of all of old Isreal before the apocalypse starts.

Trump will dismantle this country and the Christians will cheer it on as society circles the drain because the version of their book that was rewritten in the 70s says so.

It will at least be funny to see them all realize that the "rapture" probably already happened and they're all still here XD

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 28 minutes ago

Let's be discerning: there was the potential for a better path out of this, but people decided on the definitely-worst-case-for-everything option on this binary choice, to ensure everyone suffers as much as possible in every situation, most assuredly during the belligerent invasion by Israel.

It was explained over and over; you need more time?

[–] neanderthal@lemmy.world 52 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Well, to all the folks arguing with me on how voting for Harris was bad because of Gaza: CONGRATULATIONS! You REALLY made a point there. The Palestinians had a chance under Harris. Instead of voting for a chance for the Palestinians, you did nothing or voted for genocide. You did it from the other side of the world, where you won't have to suffer the consequences.

[–] Kraiden@kbin.earth 37 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

"A vOTe fOR hARriS iS a VoTE FoR gENociDe"

Fucking morons

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 13 points 2 hours ago

Fucking Russians. Fixed it for you.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)
[–] SquatDingloid@lemmy.world -2 points 34 minutes ago

It's pretty obvious that the Gaza protesters were given disproportionate media coverage because Russia paid for it to be pushed as a wedge issue.

Even this article is just anti leftist propaganda.

The actual amount of people that protest voted was a non factor this election. The exact same ratios of Muslims, Jews, and young people voter the same this time as in 2020.

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

It's not genocide if they aren't people.

--Trump, Probably

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 61 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Thanks, Uncommitted Assholes.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago

I loved having people arguing with me and saying "At least my conscience is clear."

How's your conscience now??? Still feeling good about your decision?

[–] Keeponstalin@lemmy.world -5 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

It was the Harris campaign that made the decision to not break from Biden on Israel, at the cost of at least a +6 points gain. Those votes were entirely up for grabs. That's the fault of the campaign's calculations to ignore those voters, take them for granted, and instead run to the right with having the most lethal Military and unwaivering support for Israel a year into this genocide. That single policy change would have secured her the swing states needed to win the election. Biden is a Christian Zionist, the genocide and de juro annexation of Palestine is exactly what he wants.

I voted for Harris and told others to do the same. It's still on the campaign to earn votes to win. If they took this election seriously, they would have been going after those votes. Blaming voters is just sowing division when we need unity and solidarity to fight against Fascism.

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Our first matchup tested a Democrat and a Republican who “both agree with Israel’s current approach to the conflict in Gaza”. In this case, the generic candidates tied 44–44. The second matchup saw the same Republican facing a Democrat supporting “an immediate ceasefire and a halt of military aid and arms sales to Israel”. Interestingly, the Democrat led 49–43, with Independents and 2020 non-voters driving the bulk of this shift.

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In Pennsylvania, 34% of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7% who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference. In Arizona, 35% said they’d be more likely, while 5% would be less likely. And in Georgia, 39% said they’d be more likely, also compared to 5% who would be less likely.

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Majorities of Democrats (67%) and Independents (55%) believe the US should either end support for Israel’s war effort or make that support conditional on a ceasefire. Only 8% of Democrats but 42% of Republicans think the US must support Israel unconditionally.

Republicans and Independents most often point to immigration as one of Biden’s top foreign policy failures. Democrats most often select the US response to the war in Gaza.

The United States Administration is the one enabling Israel unconditionally. Support for this genocide is bipartisan.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 21 minutes ago

Your take is absolutely idiotic.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 42 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

giving putin a free pass at ukraine will be after lunch, then?

Putin isn't waiting, he apparently started amassing troops within a day of the election.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

He's not sure, he's still waiting on orders from Putin.

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 29 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Time for the 2nd stage of FAaFO for all those that fucked around.

No both sides were not equally bad choices for trying to stop the slaughter of non-combatants.

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 hour ago

Non-combatants have been getting slaughtered none stop for over a year now with the help of the Biden/Harris admin.

If they were the better choice they could have demonstrated that, with actions not words.

Bidens 30 day deadline came and went and nothing changed because Biden doesn't care about innocent life and the dem leadership are all in the pocket of aipac https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/biden-israel-palestine-gaza-aid-30-day-warnings-blinken-toothless/

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 1 points 1 hour ago

Lots of monochrome in this thread.

If you took pretty much all of the finger-pointing positions to which individuals are stubbornly clinging to the exclusion of any and all other positions and strung them together with "and"s, you'd have the closest approximation yet to the reality.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

What restrictions?, the article doesnt mention any, Bidens ultimatum came and went with no action.

Both sides were for unconditional aid to Israel, kamala may have added some laments about loss of life but she repeatedly said restrictions on military were off the table. Until someone can point to me a concrete policy that kamala had in her platform that was different from trump then yeah both sides are equally bad on this issue. Trump is worse on a lot of others but to a Palestinian they are both bad.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 52 minutes ago

The article has a vague statement trying to make it sound like there were lots of restrictions, but I think it's just the 2000 lb. bombs, and maybe some sort of guidance system (IIRC). Because it's a fucking Fox News article for some reason.

Currently, U.S. restrictions include an embargo on a certain weapons shipment and limitations on various combat-related equipment, even if they do not involve explosive ordnance.

Allowing them is definitely more bad, but it's going from like 95% of maximum complicity to 100%.

[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 47 minutes ago

what a tool

[–] Questy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Wait, the ~14,000 dead children complied with American restrictions? The damaging or destruction of over 80% of all structures in Gaza was within restrictions? Interesting. It's honestly going to be tough for the victims of genocide to tell the difference. It actually may benefit Israel's victims since America is likely to massively lose influence in the world with the clown car pulling into Washington. Many nations who likely want to push back against the genocide are under huge American pressure to stay silent and complicit, hopefully as America loses influence that could change.

Not saying that will occur, just an opinion.