right... lets erode Harris support, because her opponent is so much more sympathetic to Palestine's tragedy. This now looks more like protests for the sake of protests rather then desire for change. In present political situation they need Harris to win first and then protest/coerse/plead/etc for policy changes. Calling her Killer Harris will only strengthen the opponent and all will be lost for Palestine. Protests need to target strictly current president and policies to deliniate the pressing needs and who can deliver on them
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Why do you think their protest is actually changing hearts and minds?
They're already starting...
Pro-Palestine protesters have disrupted the DNC24 delegate welcome party at Navy Pier tonight. (video)
Logic in protests? Lol
Especially with this gaza situation where the public isn't actually educated on the geopolitical situation (Iran proxy war) that's causing it.
Do any of these protestors honestly believe Palestineans will fare the same or better with trump in office?
Either they do and are thus too dumb to be worth listening to or they don't care about the people they profess to defend.
Edit: fixed a homonym.
No. They believe that Harris is more likely to be swayed than Trump is.
Exactly. Why don’t they protest at republican rallies? If anything, they are turning Democrats against them.
No they also know Trump is a lost cause or they would be protesting for Trump to change his stance.
If these protests are so harmful and your recognize genocide is bad and think Kamala agrees, then why isn't she giving in to their demands? She is the one throwing the election away, not people standing up against a genocide.
Thank you for framing this the way I think it.
It's not pro-Israel or pro-Hamas (to me). It's anti-genocide and anti our weapons being used for it.
That said, if we end up with Trump, then the purity test will have significant backlash.
Why isn't she giving into their Demands you ask, I ask how? She can call for the Senate to vote on different funding/embargo deals. But this is delusional if we are now saying the Vice President can override the President and issue new while breaking old contracts signed by Congress to another country.
"If you don't do what we say, you're the one throwing away the election!"
It's a pretty childish view.
"stop aiding a genocide or we won't vote for you" is actually a very adult view.
"No I'll keep defending the genocide even if it means losing" is the evil/childish view.
"Stop aiding a genocide or we'll allow the party that would speed up said genocide to win" is not an adult view.
Think about it a different way. Many Republicans feel any abortion is murder (so from their perspective, weare killing thousands of babies every month.) If they started protesting trump saying he'd better ban abortion or they'll allow Harris to win (despite the fact that she seems determined to protect the right to abortion) would that be an adult rational decision? Or would it be the same childish petulance?
"Why did you do that?" said Kamala Frog to the US PCN Scorpion. "Now we will both drown."
'we could not help ourselves. It is our nature.'
In the story, the only suffer long enough to die.
In reality, we're talking about my kids living in a country I wouldn't recognize. Vastly different than when I was their age.
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