• Optional@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Please explain how electing a Republican in 6 months could possibly lower their families chances tomorrow.

    Certainly. The republiQan party’s ties to the Netanyahu right-wing government are much stronger and more aligned. They also wish to wipe out the population of Palestine and take their land. The Democratic party does not align with those goals.

    That’s how they could lower their familie’s chances. Does that make sense?

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      6 months ago

      No, because you are still failing to address the time aspect. Tomorrow, as in 6 months before the elections.

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        6 months ago

        It doesn’t. This is our american bed. Lay in it. This is what happens when lobbyists and affluent people are allowed to place hundreds of millions of free speech into the pockets of politicians. This is what happens when religion and government mix, even slightly. The only chance those people have of America ending support tomorrow is a violent uprising that would most likely make everything worse for every American. Pick your poison, they all cause death.

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          6 months ago

          Wow, what agreat sales pitch to encourage people to vote for the guy who’s killing their family members…

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            6 months ago

            Go ahead and bury your head in the sand then. You know what? Just go vote for Trump. You’ll love it.

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              6 months ago

              I’m definitely not voting for Trump. I live in a blue state where my vote doesn’t matter anyway. I’m just saying, you guys aren’t helping as much as you think you are. Look at it from their point of view. They’re not thinking rationally, and honestly, I don’t expect them to. It’s an emotionally charged situation when people you know or people like you are being genocided. The effort would be better spent trying to force Biden to change tactics on supporting Israel before election day.

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                6 months ago

                Oh believe me I did the uncommitted thing too. There are just other remedies than voting for Trump and fucking all of us.

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                  6 months ago

                  If the choice is between just them being fucked and everyone being fucked, there’s plenty of people who would choose the latter, especially if that threat could potentially be used to reduce their fucking. Maybe just try to do something to help people whose families are dying instead of pleading for them to think of you?

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                    6 months ago

                    “That shit over there is killing my family, let me bring it to where I live.”

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        6 months ago

        Yeah there aren’t any US Presidential elections before November, that I’m aware of anyway.

        I mean after six months is a kind of tomorrow, it’s just not literally tomorrow. Using the election to press a point is not really relevant if we’re not talking about the election though. We’d otherwise just agree.

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          6 months ago

          They want him to change NOW. Not six months from now after he’s elected. NOW. The electoral threat is meant to cause current changes.

          Threatening to vote against a politician is really the only leverage voters have, and it’s not like they just wait until the week of an election to demand things. “If you don’t do this, I won’t vote for you” is a standard template for demanding action.

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            6 months ago

            well, howabout this: we’ll join in all the foot-stomping and loud sighing up until the election. If we can get some concessions through it - great! All for it.

            But we vote Biden in November. Because if you want to drive the election like an asshole and steer it into the ditch so trump gets in - Yeah, no. Not just no, but HELL no.

            How is this even a question? Do you even know what you’re talking about? Have you ever even voted before? Honestly the cavalier attitude to trump getting in is batshit insanity. I hope y’all are just stoned as fuck.

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              6 months ago

              Sure, that seems pretty reasonable to me. It’ll notably look exactly like what you’re exasperated about though. “We’re definitely going to vote for you but we’re angry” is shorthand for “ignore me”.

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                6 months ago

                Only if the whole “representative” part of democracy is a sham and a joke. I don’t think it is.

                It’s weak, yes, in some ways broken, constantly under siege, in actual existential danger at the present time - but it’s real and the best version we’ve come up with yet in the history of the world. And it wasn’t easy to get here.

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                  6 months ago

                  It’s representative because the representatives need their constituents’ votes to stay in power. It may not be a spoken exchange, but that’s exactly the exchange that takes place with every call. That’s not a sham, that’s exactly what makes it a democracy. The idea that elected officials broadly act out of the goodness of their hearts is describing a benevolent aristocracy. Also a fantasy.

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                    6 months ago

                    . . . ? Sorry, it’s representative but only because politicians need votes?

                    Not sure what the point is there.