Genocide will stop when people stop supporting genocide.
No. It will only stop when the people that care can wield enough power to stop it.
Voting blue allows for inter-party dialogues and the needful progressive backroom knifings to still happen, it empowers the pro-Palestine dems to make bolder moves. There will be sweet ole down ballot consequences to not showing up blue on election day.
If your argument is that there’s too few of us to make a difference, that doesn’t matter. The handful of Germans who dissented from the Nazis probably didn’t make a difference either. It was still the right thing to do.
Read some more history. Of course it’s the right thing to do. Aaron Bushnell did the right fucking thing. The right thing makes for great stories. However effective policy changes require political capital, it’s an unsexy slog but how the gears actually turn. Don’t like it? Run for an office and change it. But don’t pretend you are moving a needle with performative morality.
Sure, it sucks that Flint doesn’t have clean water, but it’s not really on the same magnitude, is it?
And I was an lgbtq kid back when it was literally illegal to be gay in my state. Again, not great, but it’s not the same as being bombed and starved.
… so you are purposing involuntary solidarity-lite? Coolcool. Very justice. Pay attention to what SCOTUS just did. Think about what happens when Trump cripples the EPA, or when he appoints 2 30 year old christian right wing nut jobs waiting for the rapture to the court and the decades decades it will take to have a hope of restoring balance.
You dare make appeals to compassion while turning a blind eye to genocide. It is absurd and obscene.
The bad orange man is not coming with a crown of flowers and a dove in each hand. He wants to turn Gaza into glass so the crazy fundos that let him get away with crimes feel like they are closer to jesus and let him get away with more crimes. I am not turning a blind eye, I just don’t have a magic fucking wand. Voting blue does not stop you from protesting, it just protects the people that would be harmed by a Trump presidency. That is compassion in a foxhole my guy. With enough of a blue wave, dems can cudgel Biden into more action.
You think Biden doesn’t like genocide? Was he forced into supporting this genocide against his will, because the US is a helpless client state of Israel? Occam’s razor, dude.
Biden loves genocide. He loves killing brown babies. Why else would he do it?
He’s a old racist colonialist white supremacist who thinks brown people need to be exterminated if they don’t respect their superior white masters.
… so the way to a stop genocidal white supremacist… is too get the demonstrably more genocidal and openly white supremacist in power …
Explain to me how that works again?
If enough people do that Gaza will be a paragraph in a history book—oh wait no, Trump wants to completely defund the department of education, so nix that.
How do you plan to win the hearts and minds of 200 million American voters?
Ffs. Thoughts and prayers is not a plan. A voting rightwing majority knows it’s genocide and likes that. It’s a selling point.
Why would you gift them more control, more pieces to set the board for more atrocities home and abroad? And then preen like this was some sort of virtue?
It’s so damn childish to keep pounding the table and shouting ‘Genocide!’ WE KNOW! We are trying! Shit is more fucked than your understanding of it. Crying ‘Never Again!’ and then telling me your grand plan is thoughts and goddamn prayers. Jfc.
No. It will only stop when the people that care can wield enough power to stop it.
Voting blue allows for inter-party dialogues and the needful progressive backroom knifings to still happen, it empowers the pro-Palestine dems to make bolder moves. There will be sweet ole down ballot consequences to not showing up blue on election day.
Read some more history. Of course it’s the right thing to do. Aaron Bushnell did the right fucking thing. The right thing makes for great stories. However effective policy changes require political capital, it’s an unsexy slog but how the gears actually turn. Don’t like it? Run for an office and change it. But don’t pretend you are moving a needle with performative morality.
… so you are purposing involuntary solidarity-lite? Coolcool. Very justice. Pay attention to what SCOTUS just did. Think about what happens when Trump cripples the EPA, or when he appoints 2 30 year old christian right wing nut jobs waiting for the rapture to the court and the decades decades it will take to have a hope of restoring balance.
The bad orange man is not coming with a crown of flowers and a dove in each hand. He wants to turn Gaza into glass so the crazy fundos that let him get away with crimes feel like they are closer to jesus and let him get away with more crimes. I am not turning a blind eye, I just don’t have a magic fucking wand. Voting blue does not stop you from protesting, it just protects the people that would be harmed by a Trump presidency. That is compassion in a foxhole my guy. With enough of a blue wave, dems can cudgel Biden into more action.
Still haven’t heard your plan to stop it.
We all wield a bit of power with our vote.
And I’m sending my vote to candidates who don’t support genocide.
So by empowering the guy who really likes genocide, that’s how we stop genocide now.
Again. Walk me through the steps.
You think Biden doesn’t like genocide? Was he forced into supporting this genocide against his will, because the US is a helpless client state of Israel? Occam’s razor, dude.
Biden loves genocide. He loves killing brown babies. Why else would he do it?
He’s a old racist colonialist white supremacist who thinks brown people need to be exterminated if they don’t respect their superior white masters.
… so the way to a stop genocidal white supremacist… is too get the demonstrably more genocidal and openly white supremacist in power … Explain to me how that works again?
No, the trick is to vote for neither of them.
If enough people do it, we can save Gaza and America.
If enough people do that Gaza will be a paragraph in a history book—oh wait no, Trump wants to completely defund the department of education, so nix that.
How do you plan to win the hearts and minds of 200 million American voters?
I’m hoping that one day they’ll realize there’s a genocide happening.
And I’ll be praying that they do.
Ffs. Thoughts and prayers is not a plan. A voting rightwing majority knows it’s genocide and likes that. It’s a selling point.
Why would you gift them more control, more pieces to set the board for more atrocities home and abroad? And then preen like this was some sort of virtue?
It’s so damn childish to keep pounding the table and shouting ‘Genocide!’ WE KNOW! We are trying! Shit is more fucked than your understanding of it. Crying ‘Never Again!’ and then telling me your grand plan is thoughts and goddamn prayers. Jfc.