An ml in world’s clothing.

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If you’re still asking this question, you are either a disingenuous troll or you are beyond help. You obviously haven’t spent even five minutes trying to understand why the U.S. is still funding Israel and the general positions of the two candidates and instead feel that time is better spent riffing on the same Lemmy buzzword.

The ACA never happened in your mind?

And guess what? If you’ve ever sold anything on TikTok, Bytedance (and the CCP) has your SSN, asking with a treasure trove of personal info! Byebye, identity!

Way ahead of you. When trying to persuade, you need to know your audience. I’m going door to door canvassing, and having conversations with voters that have these concerns. Those conversations, meeting people one-on-one with empathy, has a profound effect.

In contrast, here, I was responding to someone who was obviously acting in bad faith. I’m not trying to convince that person, but making sure others observing the conversation don’t feel gaslit and second-guess the reality others are trying to distort.

I’m not as dense as I might appear. However, I do appreciate you calling me out so we can have a conversation like this. It’s important, and it helps us all learn and grow.

Thanks for making it disgustingly obvious how easy it is to cherry-pick statements, excluding the full context, to push forward an agenda.

We all know the situation. But we also have more folds in our grey matter to understand the consequences of the alternatives.

“Israel has the right to defend itself” vs “finish the job” are totally equivalent stances. Got it.

That’s still “both sides” and it’s the same shitty argument.

I have a callus on my big toe. A war vet had his foot blown clean off. Are you going to say we both have foot problems?

Your scenario doesn’t exist. All you had to do to get around this was make a new profile.

That’s not valuing your time, friendo. That’s undiagnosed ADD.

Which is not even a big deal because blocked users could just create a separate account to view posts they’re blocked from anyway.

No they aren’t. They are changing how it works, in a way that is mostly immaterial to the user. That is not even close to completely removing.

Less?

So she’s running hard mode Republican?

The votes left to get (amongst registered) are leftists who are still struggling to vote for a candidate who supports a genocide.

I can’t tell if you’re being genuine and clueless or malicious.

Let’s assume you’re the former first. WaPo did a pretty cool piece with undecided swing voters during the debate. It resulted in a small but significant shift left. You can check it out here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2024/presidential-debate-voter-poll/

Unfortunately, I’m going to assume the latter. To quote Kamala, “This is the same tired old playbook” the Russian troll farms trotted out when Biden was in the race. I’m not sure if you’re one of those that fell for it or if you’re a troll yourself, but it’s not working anymore. If Trump were in office, he’d gleefully tell Netanyahu to bomb Palestine out of existence. If this is going to be a talking point, at least discuss it in good faith.

Don’t withhold credit for Biden’s experience. Even his withdrawal was a shrewdly calculated political maneuver.

SHE DIDN’T VISIT WISCONSIN! NOT EVEN ONCE!

The “soft on crime” line is completely broken, though. They can’t use it against her because the response is how she built a career around holding felons like Donald Trump accountable, and nothing else. There is zero comeback.

He said that in-between getting shot and his acceptance speech, then went right back to the same old bullshit.

Oh, of course U.S. policy at large won’t change. It hasn’t for decades. The difference here, for the election at least, is that Kamala doesn’t have to balance words vs actions. Biden and Trump have both lost Arab-Americans. Kamala doesn’t have that challenge.