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hey pro-Palestinian lemmings! where y'all at?
this is why you wouldn't vote for Harris, right? when does he stop the killing again?
#when does it stop??
I'm here but I'm not United Statesian so I can't vote in your elections (even though US foreign influence is so aggressive it feels like I should have a say).
As it turns out, there are about 2,000 pounds of difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Wow, that's surely going to both get the price of eggs down AND stop the genocide of Palestinians! How does he do it?
I mean there are two ways to stop the genocide. You can stop killing people or you can, how did he put it? "Finish the problem"
It's probably the rapes that make him feel so young... Or maybe the felonies. I don't know... There's a lot to unpack here.
Whoa whoa "Genocide Joe" where did you come from where did you go, where did you come from "Genocide Joe."
Crickets
Not to beat the dead horse but... Those who said "I won't vote Democratic because Gaza" were either lying or delusional.
In 2028 there won't be any Gaza, what will be the next line?
One way to end a genocide is to 100% the ethnic cleansing.
This is the tragic truth.
The most frustrating part about it is that withholding votes was framed as a principled position. And I’m sorry, but that’s asinine. How many of those people who declared that they wouldn’t vote for the democratic ticket because of their action/inaction on Gaza actually did anything more than posting rants on social media? How many raised funds for aid? How many organized rallies, protests, or educational outreach? How many even so much as contacted their representatives?
It is either naivety or complacency to believe that national policy should change just because you and your friends sent around some memes. And it is callous indifference to base your vote on a single issue and then claim that you’re inhabiting the moral high ground.
If you yell into the void, you shouldn’t expect a response. And if you believe in an issue, either take action or acknowledge that it would be staggeringly arrogant to expect other people to put in work that you yourself won’t do.
I really tried to tell them, but the propaganda is insane.
I think most of them were state sponsored psyops or really shit trolls. I don't think most actual real marginally rational thinking people would have such a dumb af take.
Trump being elected is enough proof for me to realize most people in our country have dumb af takes.
As if you need any additional evidence how .ml and their spinoffs are funded
You would think, and yet they're still around parrotting the same narrative. Hell, there's at least one in the comments of this very post.
Assuming that anyone with a contrary opinion, no matter how ridiculous you might feel it is, is being disingenuous is an easy way to underestimate them.
I am just here waiting for the “Free Palestine” folks to show us the way with some real radical activism.
Well, would you look at that, third-party protest voters / abstainers / "undecideds": you saved Palestine. /s
How many Palestinian children have died so far with democrat supplied bombs again? You think you have a leg to stand on?
"but what if the genocide rubber stamp was still blue" is not a compelling argument.
The undecideds are about as dumb as the maggots. They were told, over and over, that they were effectively voting for a fascist. But they couldn’t imagine that the leopard would eat their faces. Now, that fucking guy will make “Genocide Joe” look like a god damn saint.
I can't find the will to make a leopards/faces joke about this. This is exactly what we told people who wouldn't vote for Harris because of "gEnOcIdE jOe" bullshit.
Biden made real efforts to prevent the Israeli government from committing genocide. They failed, but they tried. Now we've got an absolute monster in charge who is going to outright empower the genocide.
If you voted for Trump, voted for a third party, or refused to vote... FUCK YOU. You own this.