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Answer: People didn't understand the concept of a binary choice: You vote for the lesser of two evils or you get the greater evil. This is a skills/education issue, so, good luck in 3 years.
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And the DNC are going to use this information to change their behaviour, right? Right?
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It would have been really easy to denounce the genocide Israel is committing. Why are all the politicians in the west defying their constituents to side with Israel? The people of the west are sick of Israel owning our politicians and murdering children. We give them a sickening amount of money and Ghisline and Epstein were literally Mossad and they were trafficking children to blackmail our politicians. Denouncing Israel was a very modest request from the electorate. Incase you haven’t noticed our government is occupied by Israeli assets
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The level of murder amd destruction dropped during Trump it is a fact. He still should rot in jail for supporting Israel
You don't have to tell me anything about Trump , I already know how disgusting he is and how he do not cares about Gazans just like Harris and Biden and in fact all American presidents since the creation of the terrorist state of Israel . Palestinians in Palestine will not accept anything less than the USA providing zero aid to Israel
Thst might be setting the bar too high. The best we can hope for might be purely defensive (i.e. Iron Dome resupply) and civilian aid to Israel. That's puts Palestine in the position to say "Hey, we deserve just as much funding too." But there is no way the US is abandoning Israel as an ally, no matter how much they deserve it.
Look the evidence is suggesting that Elon and Thiel rigged the election anyway. I remember bush v gore and when Hilary won the popular vote. There’s a lot of reasons people are pissed because vote blue no matter who doesn’t work when the election gets stolen anyway and nobody fights back. I’m getting pretty old and vote blue no matter who has resulted in fascism because the powers that be behind the scenes are really in charge and I and most of America is becoming skeptical that voting is going to change our situation at all
The thing I keep going back to is that 2020 was 81.3 million votes for Biden vs 74.2 million votes for Trump. 2024 was 77.3 million votes for Trump and 75.0 million votes for Harris. Democrats lost because they lost voters, not because Trump gained voters. Part of that was undoubtedly Elon and Thiel shenanigans. Another part though was social engineering. Social media was used to push the idea that both sides were the same. They also pushed the idea that Democrats wouldn't be any better towards Gaza than Republicans. That should have been obvious to people as a lie, but here we are.
It's extremely indictive of what type of people BlueMAGA are that they assume people can't just naturally be appalled by genocide.
Show me a single concrete promise from Harris that prove she would be better than Trump. She approve Trump plan
At the very least Harris wouldn't have deported Palestinian refugees in the US like Trump has.
We are talking about the genocide in Gaza do not move the goal post . There is not a single concrete promise she said that show that she would stop Israel and the genocide. You know what your new bullshit excuse look like? It is the same rhetoric Israel use : look we have 2 millions Arab Palestinians in Israel how dare you claim that we want to exterminate Gaza.
Biden and harris didn't even bother forcing Israel to really investigate the murder of Hind Rajab . A foundation was able to find the murderers when it could have been easier for the USA to find them
We are talking about the genocide in Gaza do not move the goal post .
Are Palestinians only Palestinians when they are in Gaza?
There is not a single concrete promise she said that show that she would stop Israel and the genocide.
That is called a nonfalsifiable position. Since she never became President, there is no way to prove what she would have done beyond what she said she would have done. Are you willing to take her at only her word?
We know what Trump has said. He wants to relocate all Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries and take Gaza for the US.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn57neepx4vo
Surely no matter how much you dislike Harris, she never would have done that, right?
Are Palestinians only Palestinians when they are in Gaza?
Are Palestinians only Palestinians in Gaza? There are many in Israel itself. They are not killed see how Israel is nice and not anti Palestinians? Like I say this is the same stupid rhetoric.
That is called a nonfalsifiable position. Since she never became President, there is no way to prove what she would have done beyond what she said she would have done. Are you willing to take her at only her word?
Bullshit we knew that Trump will not save Gaza based on his statements. The same way Harris own words showed that she would not save Gaza. She say that she would not change a thing in Biden policies and that she's been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact. There was zero positive impact in Biden policies.
Biden and her blamed the lack of cease fire on Hamas when it was because of Israel so they never had any serious intention to have one so she would have let Israel exterminating Palestinians from Gaza this is what you are defending .
Data speaks for itself. Duting Biden
70% of all structures in Gaza were damaged or destroyed
92% of all housing units destroyed or damaged
88% of school buildings were damaged or destroyed
80% of key water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities
Only 16 out of 36 hospitals were partially functioning, facing critical shortages of fuel, medicine, and clean water.
75% of agricultural land, including orchards and greenhouses, was damaged or destroyed
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She and Biden were at least attempting to supply aid (Gaza floating pier delivered 8,800 tons of aid supplies).
That was not an attempt to supply aid. It was an attempt to appear to be attempting to supply aid. It was theater for rubes & corporate media stenographers, and it failed because it was designed to fail.
- https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-the-brink-of-famine-gazas-floating-pier-and-bidens-fake-empathy/
- https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/trojan-horse-for-resource-exploitation
- https://thecradle.co/articles-id/24813
- https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/3/18/watching-the-watchdogs-piers-airdrops-and-mediagenic-spectacles-in-gaza
We know Harris would be as bad based on Biden policies, Harris saying she won't change anything about it and Obama signing the biggest military deal with Israel before leaving office.
The usa has the power to end the genocide and refuse to do so that including democrats you expect me to say thanks you for your war criminals for sending some aid to Palestinians when they are the reason why Palestinians need it begin win.
They did never pressure israel to stop kidnapping flotillas members trying to bring food to Gazans
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Data speaks for itself. Duting Biden
70% of all structures in Gaza were damaged or destroyed 92% of all housing units destroyed or damaged 88% of school buildings were damaged or destroyed 80% of key water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities Only 16 out of 36 hospitals were partially functioning, facing critical shortages of fuel, medicine, and clean water. 75% of agricultural land, including orchards and greenhouses, was damaged or destroyed
You can keep bullshitting all your want all facts shows that there is no real difference between dems and republicans when it comes to supporting Israel
Just admit that Harris is a goddamn monster as bad a s Trump and stop pretending you care about Palestinians. Israel can destroy Palestine completely during dems and you would still talk about how democrats could do nothing to stop it
You demand facts. I gave you facts. Trump is objectively worse. Yes, aid to Palestine matters. Aid keeps people alive. You have made your decision and no facts are going to change that, so we are done here.
I demanded evidence that Harris would stop the genocide with concrete actions you gave me none you just keep licking Harris high heels. Biden and Harris are objectively not better than Trump based on the level of destruction and intensity of Israeli strikes. You expect me to thanks harris and biden just because they send insufficient aids to Gazans when they provided unlimited military and diplomatic support. How can you shamelessly defends people who let Israel get away from killing a 6 years old poor girl?
Trump is objectively worse.
You've already been told why this is false, now you're just knowingly doing genocide apologia.
The rate of killings has been lower under Trump than Biden
That is not to do with anything Trump did.
You'd get fired if you publically announced that your boss was a genocidal maniac.
You're just admitting that you're in a bubble where you can't hear the anti-genocide voices, because they never stopped shouting.
I haven't shut up about the genocide all centrists masturbate to.
I was gonna say what the fuck is this guy in about I'm in three threads saying this right now and haven't shut up about it in two years.