• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    The people recommending genuine threats to not vote for him are welcoming something far, far more dangerous than the current genocide.

    I don’t think people realize that this will lead to floods of people genuinely not voting for him… Welcoming back a literal criminal sociopath into the white house who has already promised to back Israel with far more fervor than Biden ever has.

    It is demonstrably stupid to tie this into the upcoming election as a reason to not vote for Biden. I am convinced this is mostly an idea generated and propogated by far right proponents and American adversaries that have a vested interest in seeing Trump in the white house.

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      4 months ago

      Yeah, this issue really isn’t worth the end of the USA.

      It is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed, but letting someone who has literally said they’d go full dictator on day 1 win because of it is really fucking stupid.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah, this issue really isn’t worth the end of the USA.

        You could easily ask why Democratic politicians have been willing to risk the end of democracy in the most important election ever over it. It’s totally bizarre how people think only voters have agency and politicians are otherworldly beings whose actions cannot be understood or changed.

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      4 months ago

      You don’t need conspiracy theories to explain why people would use the only point of leverage America allows its average citizen to affect change to force Biden to not support a genocide. It’s a big deal. A lot of people just want to change his mind because they liked to imagine that if they lived during the holocaust and other bad events, they would do something. And this is basically the only thing that everyone who’s not rich enough to buy a politician can do to actually affect people in power. There’s some protests but that’s just to raise awareness for the issue.

      I don’t actually think that many people won’t vote for Biden if he changes course on this. Everyone who doesn’t like Biden for this issue specifically also hates Trump equally if not more, but they know there’s no chance to affect change after Trump has gotten elected and Biden is in his last term. Just piercing through the veil on this issue requires enough political awareness that they would know Trump is bad on this issue. But you have to act like you will withdraw your vote or the threat is useless.