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skeletons and filth everywhere EXCEPT the gem

lead for emergency pencils

they are grapes that never learned the grace of god

Of the violent protests, how many protestors at those specific protests do you imagine would be considered “violent” by the same metric?

what kind of freak doesn’t bring a bagwette to a picnic

a restaurant, maybe

a grocery store, what?

sounds like there’s already a crowd?

also, how many times have you decided to visit a food store because it was busy?

wouldn’t it be a more effective protest to drive there, park, spend 3 hours browsing the aisles, before finally buying a single pint of milk

and my point is that it’s not going to change unless people attempt to change it

it’s literally the same argument that gets wheeled out any time there’s pressure for social change, then when things finally change we all look back in 10 years and ask ourselves how the hell we ever tolerated the old way of doing things

if you want to vote biden because you think the short term benefits of avoiding trump for another 4 years outweigh the long term drawbacks of further entrenching the same status quo that led to palestine, fine

just don’t pretend that you never had any choice in the matter

rome famously neglected diplomacy, but in either case once you get rid of the mental gymnastics your argument boils down to “it’s too hard so we shouldn’t try”

that’s the thing though, they don’t need to “get help to” palestine, they just need to stop actively supporting israel in its genocide

you think the appetite is going to be there for actually committing resources somewhere when they can’t even just do nothing?

Not really. In detail, maybe, but there will always be an excuse available to avoid committing US resources to any given genocide.

If you’re in a safe seat, then no they don’t care about your vote as much, so they don’t care about your protest vote as much.

If you’re in a swing seat, then they care about your vote more, and therefore your protest vote has more weight.

Democrats caring about your vote is by definition inexorably linked to how powerful your vote is.

But since we’re talking hypotheticals, if there’s another genocide in 5 years, why would the democrats spend political capital to prevent it if they have solid data to show that they don’t need to bother and can still win reelection?

That they can just point out how much worse the republicans might be in this scenario? You think Trump will be the only bad potential president? You think if you can get past this one election that US politics will return to “normal”? There’s more or less always going to be a Trump from now on.

palestine is a unique situation? buddy there’s literally three attempted genocides going on at the moment. it’s not unique by any stretch of the imagination

the math is pretty clear

for the immediate next election cycle, yes

for the next time there’s a palestine, very much no

trump’s platform seems more to be “the election was stolen”, which his base believes

biden’s base on the other hand is horrifically split over his mishandling of israel, and arguably the demographics that are credited with democratic wins in 2022 are most effected

his poll numbers are in the shitter, and over the last two presidential elections polls have been incorrectly biased towards the democratic candidate

an incumbent has literally never lost a primary

biden was always more or less guaranteed to be the democratic nominee if he wanted to be

and one of those elections he won?

also, during the 2020 campaign, trump’s base’s biggest complaint was generally that he was running on a platform of “i’m not biden”, so i guess both cancelled out

historically “vote for us because we’re not them” is a very ineffective way of winning elections

i don’t think the current round of genocide will last until january, no, whether or not a state called palestine is left standing or not

you’re trading in the lives of the next palestine