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      The single issue: genocide

      Why are you sheepdogging for genociders? You have always had the option of saying nothing and educating yourself instead.

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              Preventing someone from gaining power who will continue genocide

              There could not be a candidate this describes more than Harris. You know, from the Biden-Harris administration behind the genocide happening right now. The one supplying bombs to burn refugee children alive. Have you heard their screams?

              I am told Democratic voters are empathetic and strategic. But all I see is racist normalization of genocide and toeing the party line.

              find new targets for genocide

              That’s a Dem specialty! They have a knack for stoking and supporting genocides. Heck, Obama got one started in Yemen. Even NGOs were saying a vhikd was killed every minute for years by this. Why do you think they are so resilient and steadfast against this genocide and Western attempts to free up Zionist shipping lanes? Did you even know what was done to Yemen?

              and turn the country into a dictatorship?

              Given that the current “system” has you shilling for genocide you should already question whether you live in a democracy.

              Though all of this lesser evilism is also premised on nobody remembering that Trump was already president for 4 years and it was basically the same shot as under Biden. In fact, Biden came in from the right, normalizing the pandemic and slashing benefits for the public, then did the usual, “I’m just a widdle president I can’t do nothin’” act when the SC overturned Roe v. Wade. Ah, but now that there is a genocide to support, unlimited billions for Israel, don’t worry he can bypass Congress. Do you see how the system functions? Do you feel enfranchised? How much less enfranchised were you under Trump?

              They’re on the same team. Why do you think Harris’ team is celebrate endorsements from Republican war criminals? A human that cared would spit in their faces and announce charges. You are not provided with such an option for your mainstream party “choices”. They laugh at their committed voters, I’ve seen it in person.

              Choosing the lesser of two evils is the way it works. If you want the greater of two evils then it’s your choice to not participate.

              No, that’s the way you are told it works by your masters so that you work for them instead of against them. You’ll notice that I am not voting for any genociders. Did I break reality!? Or just deviate from a focus group-tested party talking point?

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              I responded directly to what they said re: there being multiple issues they want to weigh. That was their response up me challenging complicity in genocide and asking why the person I was responding to was sheepdogging for genociders. They are trying yo be euphemistic and retreat to the thought-terminsting clichés that reinforce complicity in genocide, which also means avoiding even using the word. So I recontextualized their attempt to decontextualize while still directly addressing it.

              Please feel free to tell me which specific parts you would like to see addressed or responded to. I certainly already replied to the first sentence, which was the main point of deflection.

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          well I’m gonna say… if enabling genocide doesn’t make you a single issue voter I suspect you’re morally deficient of an individual. Frankly while genocide is enough Harris has a number of issues you’re free to overlook by claiming people are ‘single issue’ just because a thread is covering a particular topic.

          • doesn’t support labor. (won’t commit to keeping khan, will break a strike whenever convenient)
          • won’t be effective at reducing inflation/cost of living.
          • won’t be effective at humane immigration.
          • won’t be effective at health care reform. both at a cost and medicinally via weed/psychedelics legalization.
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      There is no difference because Harris knows her good little gooses steppers will vote for her no matter what she does or who she kills.

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      If this is a joke, it’s a very bad one. If it isn’t, good luck on pulling your head out of your ass.

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      single issue voters

      the single issue is the eradication of their families and friends

      yeah man I wonder why they don’t support that

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      I mean their single issue is Harris supports murdering their friends and family via her Israel proxy. If you’re going to have a single issue to decide your vote I can’t think of a better one.

      Personally Harris lost my vote for two main reasons:

      • her continued support of genocide. while its true israel has a right to defend itself, it doesn’t have a right to support of the US while doing so. we have laws on the books for this precise reason and they need to be enforced.
      • her unwillingness to commit to supporting labor. won’t commit to khan, will likely happily break a striking union whenever she can as evidenced by the train union and wouldn’t have ‘changed a thing’ comment.

      There are a bunch of other things I could overlook but not those two. I jokingly sent my friend a message yesterday.

      God it amazes me to watch a candidate who is part of a historically low approval admin go ‘im not wrong its the voters who are wrong’. repeatedly.

      my friends response? ‘I can’t tell which candidate you’re talking about’ which was precisely my point.

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      Do you consider war crimes, mass murderand sending in our troops to assist in a far right wing colonial war – all done with our tax dollars to be a “single issue” like… school vouchers or Amtrak funding? It seems a very dishonest or at best an inaccurate method to weigh issues against each other.