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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396125

Stephen Starr in Hamtramck, Michigan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 11.00 EDT

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[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 54 points 1 week ago

She had so many chances to make this election easier. Could have had a Palestinian talk during the DNC, and that would have likely changed this story.

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[-] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago

Angry with the Biden administration – and, by extension, Kamala Harris – for its support for Israel, Arab Americans may be willing to overlook Trump’s history of closeness with Israel’s hard-right leaders.

So, these individuals could be described as the common clay of the new West?

[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

yeah man, denigrate them more, that'll surely get them on your side! maybe a touch more smug condescension? anything except engaging with their concerns, of course.

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[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago

Okay, but, abandon her for whom exactly? Just not vote? Vote 3rd party? I am not going to say Harris is perfect, but this is cutting off your nose to spite your face.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Third Party, tyically, that's what most anti-genocide groups are advocating for.

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Many of the candidates from alternative parties are anti-genocide.

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Oh they're really gonna love how Trump handles Arabs

[-] Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's like the trolley problem, except instead of the other track having fewer people, it has more, and it just loops back around to run over the people on the first track anyway. We should have sent the trolley on a completely different route decades ago.

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[-] Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 week ago

Single issue voters, or is this even a single issue because Trump and Harris don’t really have much different on this particular topic? People really have me scratching my head sometimes.

[-] Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago

single issue voters

the single issue is the eradication of their families and friends

yeah man I wonder why they don't support that

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Who could have possibly seen this coming for a full year

[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago

Honestly it's baffling. They wouldn't have even had to actually do anything. They could have just let a Palestinian-American come up and say generic "we have to do better for the people of Gaza and the people of the world" type of shit and they would have even said that they endorsed Kamala. That's it, and a shitload of people would have been at least able to lie to themselves and say "ok, she'll do something different." But they couldn't even be asked to go through the motions this time.

It's such fucking smooth brained reactionary shit, you don't get to act like Republicans because Republicans will never vote for you, the ones that will are only ever going to do it to not vote for the current fascist, and their policy led to him.

I guess maybe the taste of David Frum's approval is sweeter than winning an election.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 1 week ago

Because Trump who literally said Muslims should wear a "Special ID at all times" back in 2015 is obviously gonna be much better....

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Read the article. Maybe half or more are voting third party, they hate trump and kamala.

The other, from one of the interviews, the last four years of Democrat led politics has literally been the worst in their lives for both themselves living in america, and for their friends and families who live in the middle east.

Assuming a democrat leader is best for everyone is part of the problem. There are groups of people who suffer under Democrat leadership, and ignoring them is just frustrating them.

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[-] donescobar@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

This group is the single greatest gift to the 2024 trump presidency and he doesn’t know it yet!

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[-] AidsKitty@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Cant blame them, Biden\Harris are literally sending Israel the bombs.

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[-] graeghos_714@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Both parties are beholden to Israel and the power of AIPAC

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Other way around. Both parties support Israel because Israel helps secure the Petro-Dollar, by which the US dominates the Global South with predatory IMF loans.

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

And it's the cork on land migration out of Africa into West Asia and eventually Europe.

And it's strategically important for the Red Sea trade route connecting Asia to the Mediterranean (although they're having a little trouble with this one lol)

And it's the laboratory for surveillance and detainment and border walls, where they can live test technology and strategies that get exported to prisons and borders and cities around the West.

And it's a place for antisemitic governments to send all their Jewish citizens.

And, of course, there's a large apocalyptic cult of Christians that believe we need to immanentize the eschaton so Jesus can return.

Israel serves so many functions!

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