• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    This guy does literally nothing but tell people how Democrats are awful people (and implies you shouldn’t vote for them)

    TONS of posts like that.

    I really wouldn’t be surprised to find out he’s Russian.

    No-one is supporting genocide. If people don’t vote for Biden (and even if they do, the popular vote might not be enough), Trump will win.

    The only case where saying “don’t vote for Biden” would be if Trump was actually a better, smarter, more emphatic president, and would use the US’s power to instantly stop helping Israel.

    And who exactly thinks that’s even possible in any scenario or even parallel universe?

    Not voting for Biden would be like being a pro-Hitler British person in 1939.

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      Yup. These people honestly think… or, “honestly” think- that not voting is going to actually do something.

      Now we have two scenarios to address here:

      One:

      They actually think in good-faith, that they are going to make a change. To emphasize- they actually think that doing nothing will cause something to happen. Which means… they are entirely unaware that someone will be elected with or without their help.

      And-

      Two:

      They know damn well that a non-vote will help Trump and that is why they are here. There is clearly more evidence to support this being the case as you’ll never see them on any post critical of Trump, suggesting that people not vote for him. Nor do you see them arguing that Trump wouldn’t be a worse choice. Nope. They’re dead silent on the issue.

      They don’t need to actively support Trump, or suggest people vote for him here as they know there are very few supporters of his on lemmy.

      However, they DO know that conservatives show up to the booths to vote. In DROVES. All they need is to convince a small amount of people to stay home, and their boy wins the White House.

      One of these two are correct. The problem is that everyone loses either way- and they don’t care.

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      He’s a voter suppressionist actively trying to get Trump elected under a thin veneer of guilt and shame. He’s appealing to people that haven’t been paying attention and think the Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians started right after October 7th, rather than in 1948. By doing this tries to claim that American support of genocide is brand new thereby absolving himself and others of the guilt associated with it, unless of course they also support The Genocide™ by voting for Joe Biden.

      More importantly he can claim that Joe Biden is the only presidential candidate that supports The Genocide™, so vote for someone else and you won’t be supporter of The Genocide™. The quiet part is that Trump never supported The Genocide™ because it never happened until Biden was president.

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        4 months ago

        Don’t pretend nothing changed after October 7 or that there aren’t candidates like Jill Stein and Cornell West who oppose the genocide.

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          Lol okay.

          Every time people bring up Jill Stein and Cornell west as serious candidates it makes me ask how they expect either to get 270 electoral college votes. So I’ll ask you, the serious progressive advocating for Jill Stein and Cornell West, how does either one of them get 270 electoral college votes? Hopefully you can do better than the last guy who’s response was “just tell people their ideas and then get votes”.

          I also think its telling you couldn’t even pick one candidate. You’re convinced 3rd party candidates are our saviors but instead of picking ONE candidate to support, you take the shotgun approach and throw out a bunch of names and hope one of them sticks. There isn’t even a single 3rd party candidate you support, but you’re desperately telling me to pick one, any one, as long as it isn’t Genociden Biden, because they oppose The Genocide™. Vote for anyone else and I’ll be showing I don’t support The Gencoide™ either.

          Even if I were convinced that either of them could get elected, I am not convinced that either have the political capital to govern in an effective manner, much less change the course of America’s support for Israel. So what you’re really advocating for is for me to help Donald Trump get elected on the infinitesimal chance that a miracle candidate could get elected and then have no practical impact on Israels actions.

          All that aside, little has changed since October 7th other than Putin’s boy Benjamin Netanyahu seizing the opportunity to start a war that will keep him in power as long as it’s going on.

          What’s even more important to Palestinians than the 40,000 or so dead Gazans is the day after the war. Will it result in full occupation and control of Palestinian territory by Isreal, which would be the final stages of the slow burn genocide. A plan which Trump endorses.

          Or will it be a general withdrawal and return of Gaza to Palestinian control, which has the possibility of a two state solution. A plan that Biden says he supports.

          Either way, Israel is a sovereign country with it’s own hopes and ambitions. Any American president has only limited ability to impact their decisions. This election is a choice between using our little influence to push towards a two state solution or push towards full Israeli control of Palestinian territory.

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        4 months ago

        “Churchill is a war criminal and a drunk, we’re better off appeasing Hitler!” - you as a Brit in the 30’s

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          What do you mean that doesn’t make sense?

          Biden’s approval is trash no matter what i’m doing here. There are voters that are already going to sit this out that need convincing; either you need to convince them to show up anyway (hold their nose to genocide to prevent more genocide), or you need to convince Biden that his position on genocide is a losing one (it looks like it already is)

          In 2016 Hilary lost because voters didn’t think the establishment gave a shit about their concerns, if you don’t think that’s a risk again all hope is lost.

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              Why is it that when I point to the reality of the situation, suddenly I’m a troll?

              Bidens approval is at 38% right now, how many votes do you think that equates to?

              I don’t know what kind of campaign could make up that kind of deficit without a total about face.

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        I did that. I’m also going to vote against more genocide, done not just abroad but at home.

        In the voting booth, there is no “no genocide” button. Your choices come down to “more genocide” and “less genocide”, and you get to push towards one outcome or the other.

        Personally, I’m going to take a brave stance against “more genocide”, but if your principles keep you from engaging with the real options, well.

        I’m sure the people who die who wouldn’t have otherwise will forgive you.

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          Did you also tell a bunch of people quite loudly that you’ll vote for him anyway?

          Idk seems like you’ve effectively said ‘if you do this again I’ll be really upset, but ILL DO NOTHING IF YOU KEEP DOING IT’

          from where I am a lot of people have been saying that second part REALLY LOUDLY but barely whispering the first part