It's pure cynicism.
They believe the genocide is unstoppable and inevitable, so they write it off as an issue entirely. I've literally been told "genocide is not on the ballot" on multiple occasions. Because of the structural issues with US elections we can't stop the genocide by voting PSL, or Green, or staying home. In their minds they don't see the point of not voting for the lesser of two genicidiers.
Genocide is on the ballot, most of the ballot is genocide! It is a ballot dripping in blood! GRaarggh!
Literally yes, but genocide is "not on the ballot" in the same way that a vote for anyone other than Harris is a vote for Trump.
They've got their whole cynical calculus worked out and think they're just making a hard choice for the greater good. 🙄
I hate this country lol
Appeal to futility type beat
No. Most people pay attention to politics for (maybe) 3 months every four years, then pick their favorite flavor candidate.
Ever met a "centrist" who deliberately votes for one party's downticket but another party's presidential candidate for "balance?" Many such cases. 
It’s called Amerikkka brain.
The gambit that liberals are trying to sell me on makes no sense. The presumption is that Trump would continue or exaggerate the genocide. Whereas a Harris administration would simply continue the genocide or maybe possibly have a possibility of maybe ending the genocide if we all ask really nicely.
Yeah except why am I going to trust an administration currently doing genocide to change their minds later? Voting for Harris is an endorsement of her current platform, which involves collaboration with Israel and no proposed alternatives. All of her talk about ceasefire is just talking, the Biden administration has done Jack and shit to actually accomplish this. The weapons shipments to Israel continue, the Biden admin celebrated Sinwar's death.
Libs are also saying we wouldn't be allowed to protest for Palestinian rights under a Trump presidency. Bruh where have they been for the past year? Have they missed all the cops dragging students out of colleges? Have they missed that associating with BDS is a crime in some states, like Texas where I live?
Absolute child brained people who only care about their own personal comfort
Word. All the "Trump will deploy the military against us citizens!" When Walz actually literally did that.
"Walz is such a nice midwestern dad!" When he's running to be second in command of the genocide machine.
The blue MAGA people also screamed in rage at us for months and years about any sort of leftward movement on policies and demanded VOTE BLUE NO MATTER WHO before Biden or Harris even had any 2024 policies in place.
If you want to play electoralism games.. you need to say “if you want my vote - Do This”
Instead all of these Blue MAGA fuckers went “you have my 
coconut brat queen, but also please do these policies!”
Which gave Harris explicit permission to run as far right wing as possible to try and pick off Trump supporters who only support Trump because they legitimately think he has some good ideas but don’t like him but would have voted for him, which is such an extremely small group of weirdos consisting entirely of Dick Cheney and his daughter.
The DNC still owes voters $600 each
sorry sweaty but i dont vote for bad debtors 💅
Ngl this is par for the course.
Americans literally cannot fathom shit that they cannot see directly in front of them. They know it's happening but ehhhhh it's somewhere else who cares. Nobody cares. Libs who say they care, but are still frothing to defeat orange guy say that they care, but they do not care. Americans didn't give a fuck about Iraq either.
I don't honestly see a "shift" or a "change" or anything different this election. Other than maybe democrats being actually a little more openly right wing with specific policies. Other than that this is just business as usual.
If I'm being real I don't even factor Palestine into either candidate, as they are both going to be genocidal freaks, and even if Palestine wasn't currently being eliminated, I wouldn't vote for these ghouls anyway. Domestically there's a couple differences. Foreign policy wise literally every politician in this trash country is 
Americans literally cannot fathom shit that they cannot see directly in front of them.
One day missles will rain down on new york and the majority of the world wont shed a single tear
But the media will still convince all the US libs that the Arabs are attacking us because they hate our freedoms and not because of anything we might've done that could compel an oppressed population to fight back
Nobody is really dealing with the fact that rhetoric and demographics != policy and action.
Republicans are pretty unpalatable unless you're a hog hooting for immigrant and queer death, and people are just kind of assuming that, of course, the other team won't do anything bad, and will do the good things, because they have the correct demographic support, and the rhetoric at times gestures vaguely to something nicer and less fascist, or at least tries to let a voter infer whatever they need to in order to deliver support, right?
People are pretty rightly scared, they should be, and they literally have no tools for understanding a world where a vote isn't a solution. Because Americans have limited understanding of non-electoral organizing, limited time because of work and survival, and I think we're reaching this point where solutions are so ugly, and so outside of anything anybody in living memory understands, that it might as well be like showing a Westworld host a picture of the outside world - It's just not going to seem like anything. There's an ontological break where voting has to work.
This is what's happening on the ground.
On the organizing level, the ghouls are just playing to the emotions, anxieties, and fears of their constituent demographics. Republicans are integrating with their extremists, and democrats are suppressing theirs. This creates a balance that will inevitably empower the far right, and the democrats are fine with this because their bosses are the same people.
The rhetoric is insane because the moment is insane.
I'm definitely going insane.
Was officially diagnosed with Autism recently. I wonder if Autistic traits are common among the left? Like do I feel this way because my brain is literally wired differently than other people? Are neurotypical people more able to brush off mass death and all of the discrimination that leads to it?
Leftists (in the west at least) from my experience are overrepresented with neurodivergent folk, queer people, poc, and disabled people. Probably because of two things. Those demographics are less likely to resonate with the promises and dreams of western liberal society. Like the whole house in the suburbs with a spouse and 2.5 kids and office job. That whole dream sounds either impossible or unappealing, so it leads people like us away from buying into the liberal framework.
The other thing is those demographics are often more impoverished. Which leads back around to not buying into the liberal capitalist dream.
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