• OBJECTION!
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    23 hours ago

    I’m not going to support the mass murder of innocent people over fears about what might, potentially happen. The US is already involved in killing leftists, and rightists, and centrists, and queer people, and cishet people, and everyone else.

    If Trump wins and your worst alarmist fears come true, then I’ll go to the grave knowing that I did what I could to stop it. Supporting genocide is not something I could do, as I’m not interested in tearing down other innocent people for my own preservation, like crabs in a bucket.

    The only real chance of safety is through solidarity, including international solidarity. That solidarity is destroyed by selling out individual minority groups. What you’re saying about Palestinians today, you could just as easily be saying about trans people tomorrow. If democrats decide that not killing trans people is too much of an electoral liability, but the republicans want to kill trans people AND other people, then you’ll repeat the same lesser-evilist ideological nonsense to justify and make peace with it, and it will become an inevitably. No one is safe if anyone can be sold out.

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      19 hours ago

      If Trump wins and your worst alarmist fears come true, then I’ll go to the grave knowing that I did what I could to stop it.

      By voting third party, allowing him to win?

      Yeah, right.

      That’s the opposite of stopping it.

      That’s enabling it.

      Trump warned you he would be a dictator on day one. His co-planners wrote down the agenda in project 2025. The supreme court ruled that he cannot face consequences. He warned you he would start shooting leftists. One thing can stop it: Kamala Harris winning.

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        18 hours ago

        Then there’s nothing I can do to stop it, period. Supporting genocide is completely off the table, not even considerable.