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    ITT: you’re a Trump supporter if you call genocide genocide.

    There’s a lot of people who plan on voting Biden, myself included, who effectively feel held hostage at this point. “Don’t criticize support for genocide or Trump is going to destroy the country and probably kill a lot of people” is probably one of the most frustrating political discourses I’ve ever experienced. The folks making this argument are right in that Trump winning is bad for everyone, including the Palestinians, and I can empathize with the pragmatism there. That said, that argument rings hollowly for me, because it comes across as so utterly cynical. It reads (to me) as though genocide registers at the same level of urgency as dysfunction at the DMV. They’re sorry for the inconvenience (and probably they really are sorry that it’s happening) but non-combatants getting starved, shot, drone striked, and buried under rubble by our allies is just not something that’s convenient to deal with right now. I wonder if they think the Palestinians find it very convenient.

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      I make the same comment in all these threads, but you don’t have to vote for Biden. I’m planning on voting psl this November and you can too.

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          Party for socialism and liberation. They’re running Claudia de la Cruz this go round.

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            As someone who voted 3rd party in 2016, I very much regret it. It was a wasted vote and helped Trump get in office. The very same thing can happen again. Don’t get me wrong, I hate that Biden is the candidate. I hated it in 2020 as well. The Democratic party is a joke when it comes to putting up candidates. Until we aren’t a two party system, we have to vote for the lesser of two evils with a plausible chance of winning. If not and Trump wins again, we will only move backwards again. It felt like we took two steps backwards and a half step forward.

            How we can generate change is by starting at the local level. Ranked choice voting has already begun at many local level elections. We need to campaign for this and for candidates that can make that happen.

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    Watch Biden supporters lash out at communists and muslims if Biden fails to get reelected, rather than looking at the horrendous position the Democrats have taken.

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      Watch LGBTQ+ people get genocided right here in America because lefties decided not to vote against Fascism. Remind us again that you didn’t vote against it when that happens and see how people react.

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          Look at America under the ruling and cultural elite today: Inflation is ravaging family budgets, drug overdose deaths continue to escalate, and children suffer the toxic normalization of transgender- ism with drag queens and pornography invading their school libraries.

          Project 2025 Mandate to Leadership. Page 1. Paragraph 2.

          They want to barr transgender persons from the military again. Page 104.

          The next HHS secretary should immediately put an end to the department’s foray into woke transgen- der activism.

          Page 284. They also want CMS (center for Medicare services) to make a national coverage decision citing gender-reaffirming surgery as dangerous. Which has downstream repercussions to medicaid and private insurance. (That’s on page 474).

          They want to cock-block Bostick, the ruling which extended sexual discrimination protections for transgender persons. (page 584).

          Make no mistake. Transgenders are our conservatives Jews. You could replace “transgender”, “gay”, “LGBT”, “homosexual” etc in that document with “jew”, you’d swear it was written 90 years ago in Germany.

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    I deleted this comment because I realized I don’t actually wanna take part in an extremely tribal ethno-religious debate. I’ll just say the following things everyone should agree on:

    • Any government anywhere that holds one ethnicity or religion above another is fundamentally wrong and oppressive
    • Everyone who minds their own business has a right to be safe from violence
    • Maximizing good things and minimizing bad things is good, obviously. But this also applies to voting.