Trump Is Reportedly Sending Israel $2.8 Billion in Bombs. You're Paying for Them
a month ago by cantankerous_cashew to c/politics
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We've gotta stop doing this chatter.
Yes, we know establishment dems are also pro israel.
Are you actively trying to help tank dem chances in the mid terms? Do you think repubs will be better?
I don't get the desired effect of this comment other than to make people depressed and sad and not bother voting for the least bad option which will have the effect of allowing the more bad option to win. I get the "burn it down" team, but there are lots of us who aren't there and think that's going to be miserable for ages.
But we have hope. There's been a surge of SocDems winning and they are making waves, getting positive press, and the republicans have shat the bed so bad that their base is noticing.
You can also help instead of harm by joining your local democratic organization, helping find better candidates to vote for and supporting them, and voting in the primaries. If you're not doing all of that, then please be quiet.
I'll just go ahead and admit it. Let's lay it all out. Straight up: I won't be voting for Biden this election and I hope no else does either.
But yeah I really wish he wasn't running for president again...in a midterm election. Cause if he wasn't then I'd say we could at least vent honestly a little about the heinous things he was involved in with out being brow beat about it. Bad mouthing the party in general? Yeah probably not the best thing to be doing now. But Biden? Nah fuck him.
You do realize who the puppet-president is doesn't matter right? You're voting for a party and for your pathetic country it means : shit vs shittier.
So grow up and vote for shit before shittier takes away voting altogether. Then worry about dragging the needle further left. US people are so dumb...
Well Republicans may be actively killing Americans, cutting all research funding and solar and infrastructure, ruining trade relations, starting and continuing several wars, doing exactly as much as the dems do on Israel, just with even more support towards it, making bills to say trans people are mentally ill, pushing religion in schools, cutting education, and about 1000 other literally evil things.
BUT! dems support Israel instead of Russia. Who cares about the Iran war I guess. They also only passed 7 huge bills while having a tiny majority. Both sides.
Are you actively trying to help tank dem chances in the mid terms?
"guys, I know they support the genocide, but my team might lose if you don't stop talking about it!"
Your chance to fix this was in 2016. Last one was in 2020.
At this point, you're locked in.
This is the 'burn it down' crowd comment.
paraphrased: "Things are bad there, but we can make things bad here too so that things are just bad everywhere and people will suddenly revolt"
I'm in my local org, promoting candidates I want before we get to the national level. What have YOU done other than comments on a forum a few thousand (mostly already on your side) people will see? I'm pro Palestine and anti-genocide, but I don't see a way to _get there_ without adding violence without aiming for grass-roots level activism. Hence the point of my comment. The republicans did it; stop fighting me and fucking help.
Can we not agree that genocide is bad, the established leadership is bad, that we can find and elect better people, and that we can use momentum to get good things done? To me, the alternative is hopeless despair and just giving up.
Is that what you're selling? Because that seems fucked up and I'm not buying. Because Fucking Please - tell me how you are are solving the genocide right now.
Your chance to fix this
My personal choices in both those years was not one of the options. So I voted, effectively the limit of my personal power since I'm not a billionaire, for the one closest to that. I'm one of ~350M people and I have an outsized impact because I'm trying to influence others.
you're locked in.
Guess I should stop trying to push people to get more involved... I'm sure that will fix it.
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