• stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 hours ago

    their whole little plan backfired

    Was there a plan in the first place? It would’ve looked like this:

    1. Don’t vote Kamala
    2. Trump wins election
    3. ???
    4. No profit at all, everything’s fucked
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      2 hours ago
      1. Vote Cornel West because he’s an ok person who opposes genocide.
      2. It doesn’t matter at all because of where I live in this sham democracy.
      3. Continue to be berated by delusional genocidal libs for the rest of my life.
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      2 hours ago

      Did you ever try asking someone to explain the reasoning, or did you you just assume whatever strawman you came up with was real?

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          60 minutes ago

          Sure. If you make your vote conditional on supporting a certain policy, then you create an incentive for politicians to support that policy in the future. Politicians have no incentive to care about the concerns of people who support them unconditionally. That means it’s at least potentially the rational and strategic line to draw a red line somewhere, and if you agree with that, then it’s pretty obvious that genocide is crossing that line.

          Pretty simple. As the saying goes, why buy the cow (give the voters what they want) when you can get the milk (votes) for free?

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            30 minutes ago

            I still don’t understand why just because Kamala didn’t explicitly oppose Israël, you choose to allow Trump to worsen the whole situation by forcefully deporting all Palestinians out of Gaza.