Mehdi’s Memo on the results of our new poll on Gaza and Iran

  • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I think it’s really lame to set up a false dichotomy for people between asking you to vote in the presidential election and asking you to kill yourself. That’s not productive discussion at all and really injects a gross tone into the whole thing. Can we not trivialize suicide as some sort of debate tactic, please?

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      8 months ago

      People are asking me to vote for a fucking genocide. They’re asking me to vote for children starving to death under rubble, terrified out of their minds after their entire families were murdered before their eyes. They’re asking me to vote for children being rounded up into detention centers and having their fucking limbs cut off. They’re asking me to vote for the desecration of corpses and the illegal harvest of their skin and organs. They’re asking me to vote for the systematic starvation of children and torture of political prisoners

      Those are our bombs, aren’t they? Paid for with our tax money? Funded by our government that we voted for? That makes me complicit! I am responsible for a genocide! Fuck you if you think I’m trivializing fucking anything. I don’t want to die but I sure as fuck deserve it. I helped us get to this point, I played my roll just like everyone else, my hands are covered in blood and fuck this is a nightmare.

      If I had an ounce of bravery I’d cast the only vote that matters like Aaron Bushnell did. This isn’t a fucking debate strategy, I’m trying to express how fucking terrified and disgusted and outraged I am. I’m trans. Trump will probably fucking kill me, this isn’t a fucking game.

      How can you choose to vote for genocide? Haven’t you heard their screams? Fukc this shit makes me so fuckings ick

      • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Call a suicide hotline. Nobody here can help you in this forum and it’s very clear you need to have a discussion with a therapist. You’re in no place to be on Lemmy having discussions about anything, much less heated political topics. I’m going to block you after this, not because I dislike you, but because I want you to not have any incentive to respond. Go get some help friend.

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          8 months ago

          This shit pisses me off. What part of I don’t want to die did you not understand? Do not belittle me.

          To recognize your own complicity in genocide and recognize the price you should pay for it isn’t suicidal, it’s political. As if Aaron Bushnell could have called a suicide hotline and felt better about the genocide that’s happening with our support. Do you think a concentration camp guard could call a suicide hotline to alleviate their guilt? Do you think the blood on your hands can ever be washed clean?

          Don’t fucking patronize me. The fact that you have never felt strongly enough about politics to put your life on the line is your problem, not mine.

          • a lil bee 🐝@lemmy.world
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            8 months ago

            I’m a scum bag for not wanting to get into a debate with someone threatening suicide in lemmy comments? If they’re telling the truth, they need to talk to someone qualified, not random idiots on lemmy. If they’re using it as a debate tactic, it’s beyond fucked up. Either way, not sure how that makes any sort of statement on me. Lost a friend to suicide not even a month ago so fuck me for not wanting to engage with this right?