I’m one of those Americans [who is] really sick and tired of the narrative that we’re constantly told: That we’re supposed to hate some country that’s overseas—that maybe we’ve never been to.

We don’t know anything about that country, but we’re told that they’re the greatest threat to our freedoms and our democracy, and that we have to go to war with them.

I’ve never seen a Houthi—or however you pronounce it—I don’t even know what they look like! I haven’t seen them back home in The Bronx where I live; I haven’t seen them in Washington D.C., and I keep saying: How is this a threat to everyday Americans?

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Pic of AOC unrelated.

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    I agree with that, but I refuse a protest vote for Palestine, when the religious fundies here want the same thing they do

    And if you did protest vote or not vote at all I hold you equal as those who voted MAGA

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      Anyone who voted Democrat is ultimately responsible for Trumpler being elected.

      Edit: Lol I hit post and they’re banned.

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      What about saving some of that energy for the dogshit genocidal party that refused to do anything that would make people want to vote for them?

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      “I refuse that people wouldn’t vote for a genocidal maniac, if you didn’t vote for the genocidal maniac with the D next to his name you’re as bad as the people who voted for the genocidal maniac with a R next to his name.”

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      “Sorry, if you’re a non-citizen immigrant in a red state, and you were counted in your state’s total resident population in the last census, uhhh, you literally led your state to have one extra elector to swing the election in Trump’s favor, so you’re just as bad as MAGA. Also, if you’re an overseas citizen who emigrated from a blue state before the last census, and you don’t work for the US government, you literally led your state to have one fewer elector than it would’ve had, practically handing the election to Trump, so you’re just as bad as MAGA.”

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      religious fundies here want the same thing they do

      What do you mean by this? Religious fundamentalists in the US are more likely to be Zionists, they want to destroy Palestine, or are you talking about the ‘Israeli’ fundamentalists?

      And if you did protest vote or not vote at all I hold you equal as those who voted MAGA

      Nazis are the same as those who don’t want to vote for Nazis, interesting.

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          the fascist you voted for campaigned on being more fash on immigrants than the orange man and on having “the most lethal military in the world” among various other horrors you overlook because you’re fucking complicit you fucking piece of shit

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          The dems are giddy about committing a genocide as it is. The nazis kinda were in power mate. It will only sink in when in hindsight you look at all the horror that piece of shit biden happily sent weapons to.

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              Ok, we started with not voting makes you as bad as the literal fascists.

              Now we’re at voting doesn’t materially effect the outcome in the vast majority of cases, but you’re still as bad as the fascists for not participating in the American civil religion by personally legitimizing our deeply undemocratic institutions with a vote that is essentially an endorsement of further neoliberal policy that would gladly see many of us dead or enslaved.

              Is politics just like a sports thing to you or something? Where you show up to support your team every couple years? Why should I care if the Democrats or Republicans are in office if they are both committing genocide, if they both support policy that is a direct threat to the lives and livelihoods of myself and people I care about? I don’t want to be complicit in that, but apparently I’m as bad as the fascists for not voting for actual fascists in sham elections?

              Voter opinion doesn’t correlate to policy in literally any study I’ve ever seen of the electorate in this genocidal farce of a settler-slaver colony. The problem is very clearly not a lack of voter participation, but a lack of actual, functioning democratic institutions. You’re never gonna vote your way out of this situation because the capitalists built the entire system to prevent you from doing exactly that.

              When you make a big show of voting blue no matter what, you tell the Democrats they don’t need to worry about your interests because they have your vote regardless. Why the fuck would you do that?

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          Every time you reply in this thread, it actually reelects Trump for another 8 years.[1] Why don’t you learn how Our Democracy® works.


          1. Source: I made it up ↩︎

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          Did your pathetic protest vote help put the Nazis in power?

          nah because all third party votes added together and Kamala still lost handily for being an evil genocidal freak and a no-appeal, offers-nothing, world historic loser. thanks for asking though bud i’m happy to clarify!

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          Nope, that would be the party full throat supporting a genocide when even mainstream media admitted it was a big issue that would lose them votes.

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      And if you did protest vote or not vote at all I hold you equal as those who voted MAGA

      what is democracy in your opinion then? everyone voting for the genocidaire that you approve of?

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      One side continued the genocide while tut tutting, one side got a ceasefire (before Israel broke it) and is directly negotiating with the Palestinians bypassing Israel. On the face of it, it seems like one side has a lot more Gazan blood on their hands. But keep telling people they need to vote blue no matter who

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          The movement against the US/Israel genocide in Gaza has been pressuring the Democrats to take the correct position on this issue for nearly two years. They spit in our face and threw an easily winnable election away to defend their genocide. Now they are being flanked by the fucking Fascists. Even if the current motions of the Trump administration are entirely superficial it is substantially more than what the Democrats did under Biden+Kamala’s leadership. This is an absolute disaster for Liberals. Nobody is ever going to forget this. They embraced an immoral, unpopular policy - a policy so evil it gives the Fascists the room they need to even pretend they’re the good guys - and this is the outcome.

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      I agree with that, but I refuse a protest vote for Palestine, when the religious fundies here want the same thing they do

      And if you did protest vote or not vote at all I hold you equal as those who voted MAVA

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