I’ve had this discussion plenty of times here on lemmy. They didn’t want genocide Joe, so they got turbo genocide Donnie. They somehow didn’t realize that “no genocide” wasn’t on the menu, even not voting was making a choice.
Some guy was on here within the last week talking about great president De La Cruz would be. As if her votes were more than a rounding error for either of the two major parties.
What if I told you, that your argument was doomed to fail, as the flaw with your reasoning was the same as the flaw with theirs, in that there was no genocide, by any formerly used definition of the word, what there is a war against an embedded Islamofascist terrorist army, after an invasion which saw 1500 Israelis rape and slaughtered, after 10 years of deadly missile fire and incursion, fully supported by the surrounding Arab populace. Now by your comment, I know you won’t admit that, but massive protest marches in every American city, and takeovers of University commons across the country, on network news every night for months, during the spring and summer of an Election year, calling the incumbent Democatic President running for re-election “Genocide Joe”, chanting “from the river to the sea” not only freaked out middle America (democrats and republicans in equal measure) but all of it, and not only suppressed the Democratic youth vote, but in fact all of it.
I’ve had this discussion plenty of times here on lemmy. They didn’t want genocide Joe, so they got turbo genocide Donnie. They somehow didn’t realize that “no genocide” wasn’t on the menu, even not voting was making a choice.
Well, consequences haven’t waited long.
Some guy was on here within the last week talking about great president De La Cruz would be. As if her votes were more than a rounding error for either of the two major parties.
What if I told you, that your argument was doomed to fail, as the flaw with your reasoning was the same as the flaw with theirs, in that there was no genocide, by any formerly used definition of the word, what there is a war against an embedded Islamofascist terrorist army, after an invasion which saw 1500 Israelis rape and slaughtered, after 10 years of deadly missile fire and incursion, fully supported by the surrounding Arab populace. Now by your comment, I know you won’t admit that, but massive protest marches in every American city, and takeovers of University commons across the country, on network news every night for months, during the spring and summer of an Election year, calling the incumbent Democatic President running for re-election “Genocide Joe”, chanting “from the river to the sea” not only freaked out middle America (democrats and republicans in equal measure) but all of it, and not only suppressed the Democratic youth vote, but in fact all of it.
There is objectively a genocide occuring in Israel against the Palestinian people. Even the UN says that it’s a genocide.
Israel also funded Hamas for years prior to the kidnappings. They used Hamas as an excuse, after years of funding them, to manufacture consent for their genocide against every Palestinian. Israel has even started operations in the West Bank following their “ceasefire” in Gaza. Proving that this is about the ethnic cleansing of every Palestinian within Palestine.
Doesn’t matter what I think, if it was genocide or not: they thought it was, and that not voting for biden/Harris was somehow going to help Gaza.
on that, we agree