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    You unconditionally support a genocide for just two years and suddenly you’re a “war criminal.” So much for the tolerant left.

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        She had complete control over her own campaign platform, where she chose to be in lockstep with Biden.

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          This. It’s up to the politician to build a platform that gets as many votes as possible. The DNC and Harris choose to ignore their base, shout down the Muslim vote, and took more money from special interests groups than Republicans.

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          I wouldn’t say that, she was beholden to the party donors that would have stopped sending money to all of the corporate Dems if she had a different stance. Biden also wasn’t going to let her distance herself on any of his stances. It was a lose-lose situation from a messaging perspective.

          The more ethical choice would have been to have stop taking the big donor money and to have distanced herself from Biden’s stance, but likely still would have lost by doing that given she was trying to win over the average swing state voter.

          Personally, I think looking forward, that the corporate Dems that are taking money from pro-Israel PACs should be told they can either keeping taking those donations and be primaried, or they can stop and they will have the support of the voters. Ideally we want progressives but convincing the the corporate Dems to not put money first does matter.

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        Enough to have a backbone? To stand on morality? No one made her back genicide. Like the fuck we talking about?

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            It doesn’t matter. Even more so the less power she had to change the situation. All she had to do while vp was say was I don’t support, agreed with, nor play a part in the genicide happening in Palestine. She could have said during the campaign that she would stop all weapons going to Isreal and that she’d hand over anyone that helped kill innocent people. She has nothing to lose. Her silence proved she wasn’t ready to be president. If she can’t stand up to special interest groups with no real skin in the game, do you think she’ll magically gain morality once in power? And additionally, what a dumb political move that is ultimately! Not a single vote was gained by backing Isreal, because Republicans were going to back them anyways. Pro genicide people aren’t going to vote Democrat, full stop. She was more afraid of losing money rather than the election.

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    It’s crazy to think this all could have been avoided if Biden just kept his word and let us have an actual primary where Kamala predicably would have lost early on.

    Instead we got a half assed bait and switch for the worst polling candidate possible. I swear she was picked because she was the cheapest corpo money could buy.

    The DNC needs to be dissolved because they keep picking loser corporate stooges that nobody likes in the belief that they can just AstroTurf and gaslight their way to popularity.

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      Everyone seems to conveniently forget the fact that the only one that was legally entitled to any of the money raised for Biden’s campaign, over like 3 years of fundraising, was Kamala because she was on the ticket.

      Restarting the fundraising process from scratch, after even just a 14-21 day primary process that would somehow also be built out of nowhere, would have meant whoever secured any nomination would have easily been outspent by a mile. They would have had no funds to even campaign on. It probably would have locked all the money that was already donated up too, considering that it would take quite some time to refund all of that money; figure out who was owed what exactly based on what hadnt been spent yet, etc…

      Like what the fuck else did anyone expect to reasonably happen? It was stupid for Biden to ever say they could even have had a primary. The real promise he should have stuck to was when he claimed he would only be a one term president years beforehand

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        I don’t really recall all the rules, but you’re right that she was the only one entitled to it legally. However, I’m pretty sure other pacs can run ads for other candidates. For example, you’ll sometimes see democrat or republican ads for spoiler candidates. There’s surely still a way it could be used to benefit whoever the democratic candidate was. IANAL though.

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      And she still probably have won if she’d stuck with the campaign she was running at the start, rather than ditching it to pivot right

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        What, Liz Cheney wasn’t good enough for you?? 🙃 Seriously, that’s when i knew we were sunk. What a fucking disaster

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          She also got the Clintons to campaign for her; HRC went down to Florida and Bill went to Michigan, where he defended Israel to Muslim and Arab-American voters that Harris was ostensibly trying to win over.

          lol

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      If Biden died rather than step aside who would have been the candidate? It would be Harris as that is who was selected by the states that ran democratic primaries at that point.

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        Harris is deeply unpopular with anyone who isn’t a rabid neolib and was solely picked by the neolib establishment (read fucking dinosaurs addicted insider trading) for her willingness to be a corporate stooge.

        If she was half as wonderful as the online astroturfing suggested she wouldn’t have had an abysmal turnout and wouldn’t have lost the election along with every primary along the way.

        I knew she was cooked the moment she announced her VP and he got 1,000x the enthusiasm and coverage that she did.

        We needed an actual democratic socialist to excite people, not another fucking Israeli funded Republican-lite campaigning on a desperate gamble to gaslight people into thinking she isn’t just another dogshit neolib.

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          She was fairly qualified given that she was VP.

          I feel that Harris was more left leaning than most people say, but she was playing the election too safe by not trying to promise a stronger platform. She was hedging her bets and was preparing to not have a supermajority in the Senate. In doing so though, her messaging was underwhelming.

          If she overpromised and won, then she would have looked exactly the same as Biden. Where nothing meaningful could get passed federally due to being short on votes.

          If she underpromised and somehow won big, then the Democrats would have looked great going into 2026 and 2028.

          Instead, she underpromised and underperformed, the House, Senate, and White House were lost as a result.

          I agree that sticking with a message people can believe in does matter, and it’s why Bernie Sanders is having success even in rural West Virginia in the current year. The progressive platform is popular when people hear about it, so we need an elected leader that believes in the progressive message they are selling.

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          None of this answered the question I asked though.

          Are you educated in the American political system at all? Im asking this because I don’t know you and a lot of the “they never held a primary” folks are actually not well educated on elections and how they work.

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            She would have lost, even by the DNC’s own crappy poll metrics which showed several candidates that were much more popular, like Newsom who could have easily fulfilled his role as a shill and a well received candidate instead of just an obvious shill.

            DNC running around with “too late for a primary” and “can’t adjust voter law” is moot when you consider that almost all of them have a catch all cause for holding primary elections in circumstance, and the fact that they aren’t even tied to the Federal election or even State control if the DNC wishes.

            That all being said, Harris would have been the de facto candidate as the incumbent if Biden died, but if the DNC wanted to, they could easily chose not to run her as the candidate and hold a primary.

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              Her potential loss might be the case but there is a good reason for why they did not hold a primary after already running one. There’s no legal reason I am aware of that invalidates the races already ran.

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            Your question isn’t relevant to what actually happened because it’s an entirely different hypothetical situation.

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              No, it’s directly relevant as it is the next closest situation as to what happened. Biden stepped down because ge could not fulfill the role due to his health.

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                It’s literally not. That’s not what happened and has nothing to do with me talking about how Biden should have let a primary happen. You just brought this up as if it was relevant when it’s really not

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                  Biden stepped aside due to health concerns after a disastrous debate. These concerns have since been justified as Biden has cancer.

                  There was a primary and Biden/Harris won it. They ran unopposed for most of it.

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      She was the cheapest option. Literally look at the other person talking about how they were the only candidate that could use Bidens money so as to immediately have the millions already invested by big pockets and a candidate they could know they could pay for.

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        She outraised trump and still lost. We didn’t have a primary because the party didn’t want someone who might not support genocide.

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      Would love to kick the DNC to the curb but at the beginning of this year everyone top to bottom was replaced. It is malleable and we need to change it to finally be progressive and actual leftist party for the people.

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    WE HAVE ACTUAL RIGHT WING WAR CRIMINALS DOING WAR CRIMES RIGHT NOW, BUT YES, PLEASE YELL AT THE ONE PERSON WHO HAS ABSOLUTELY FUCKALL TO DO WITH IT AFTER ALL OF YOU TOLD HER THE CURRENT WAR CRIMINALS WILL DO A BETTER JOB.

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          The woman who advocated for “the most lethal fighting force in the world” and boasted of Liz Cheneys support? Yeah she would have just gotten everything in place for the next republican to do instead. Like Biden did with the border camps and ICE.

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            Oh don’t get me wrong, shed have found ways to be evil, I just don’t think she’d specifically do that.

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        You’re fine with trading the lives of innocent palestinians to maintain your own comfort and security, you deserve Trump and worse

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          Lol, no, I’m certainly not. I do what I can within my limited means although I’m sure I could do more. Sadly, just by virtue of voting, I’ve done more than the majority of my countrymen but I certainly am no paragon of virtue.

          I am a realist though. Realistically the Palestinian people would have been better off, or at the least not worse off, with a Harris administration at the helm.

          Regardless, the diplomacy would have been carried out by the statesmen in the background if she was in office or Trump - Trump just comes with massive baggage.

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              Geez, calling me a morally bankrupt coward is just a tad bit mean, don’t ya know? Also doesn’t really address the actual real world we’re in where we are voting on an office which is making decisions that go far beyond only the tiny part of the world that is Israel/Palestine.

              Like I don’t know how naive and narrow minded one has to be to think a world with Trump in charge of the USA is better than the alternative.

              Like, obviously, if I could waive a magic wand I’d change a whole fuckpile of stuff about our government and our system of living as a whole. Unfortunately, presumably, much like yourself, I’m not magic.

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                A lot of our friends here have only a mass-media understanding of American politics. And given that mass media is utterly terrible, it’s . . . a crooked understanding.

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                I don’t owe civility to anyone making excuses for the fucking democrats, nothing about the “real world” requires you to accept their complicity in genocide you decided to do that shit on your own

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                Democrats did more to put Trump in power than every protest & third party voter combined, and you’re still making excuses for them because you’re a spineless moron

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            I wish these relevant sourced arguments could bring some around, but they won’t in large part because many of these comments are not American voters and just want to vent.

            Just like we did when we were kids. Except we live here and we vote.

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              I was raised republican and you would be even more surprised how completely ineffective this would have been on me in the past. The people that continue to vote republican are so much dumber than you realize. Like find a source that disagrees with them, so they go find new source type dumb.

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            Trump was far worse for Palestine though. So much worse.

            No, you were just denying and downplaying the genocide when it was your team doing it

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              I’m not going to do the work for you, but the math is simple:

              Would that number have gone down at all if Trump had been president on Oct 7? Only when they ran out of victims, and you know it.

              https://nypost.com/2024/10/30/world-news/trump-told-netanyahu-to-end-the-war-by-january-if-he-wins-report/

              And just in case you forgot, that was Biden slowing down those weapon shipments that had been congressionally approved long before the Oct 7 attacks. It’s been trump that’s been unblocking, delivering, and promising more.

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                the math is simple:

                Proceeds to present no math and instead a baseless assertion. Biden did absolutely nothing to restrain Israel.

                Biden slowing down those weapon shipments

                Well now you’re just lying through your teeth too justify genocide collaboration. Weapon shipments increased under Biden, he even went around Congress to do it.

                It’s been trump that’s been unblocking, delivering, and promising more.

                No, you were just denying and downplaying the genocide when it was your team doing it.

                And this is why the lesser evil argument failed; because Trump winning was the only way you people would even acknowledge what America was doing

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            Trump is the same for Palestine, he’s worse for you and that’s the only part you give a shit about

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          You’re fine with trading the lives of innocent palestinians to maintain your own comfort and security

          Be fair. Centrists were willing to sacrifice everyone’s comfort and stability as long as they didn’t have to tell netanyahu no.

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          Nah, Netanyahu makes me ashamed of my Jewish heritage, the whole state of Israel and what it has been doing really does tbh. They’re probably literally making people antisemitic since they try to conflate that with being anti Israel even though it’s squarely separate.

          Would be like saying people criticizing the USA are anti Christian or something along those lines.

          Anyways, no, I think you know the right answer is Trump.

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            Anyways, no, I think you know the right answer is Trump.

            Him too. But he’s not on this thread being a simp for netanyahu. You are.

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              Nobody is simping for Netanyahu I just would prefer a world where Harris won and Trump lost. Part of the reason Harris lost was people not voting for the Dem candidate and actively helping a person who has an even worse track record on Israeli-Palestinian relations win the office of the president.

              It makes no sense. It’s like not voting to have a golf ball put up your ass so the pineapple can get shoved up there instead.

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                Nobody is simping for Netanyahu I just would prefer a world where Harris won and Trump lost.

                then you should be upset that she supported genocide, Instead you’re mad at the people who told you she would lose if she supported genocide.

                Because they were right.

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        it was better to abstain from voting or vote 3rd party than vote Harris because the Biden admin supported Israel because it legitimized the electoral system without affecting the outcome.

        Like, yeah guess who else is sucking Netanyahu’s dick

        why is this homophobic trope still being played like it’s a major own of fascists??

        But sure hope you feel great about not voting for Harris so we could get someone objectively worse on all fronts, including the Israel / Palestine conflict.

        Please tell me in what ways the Trump admin was worse than the Biden admin on Palestine. Like an actual example.

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            I’m fairly certain the president of the worlds largest settler colonial empire knew what its pet settler colony was planning on doing after the genocide.

            Edit: bulldozers where in gaza pretty much day one

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              But did he propose it? Did he actually go up and say he wants Gaza cleared out with a Biden resort in its place? Did he share an AI video of gaudy gold statues and bikini clad women on the beach?

              I agree that Biden’s stance on Israel/Palestine was terrible but Trump is clearly doing and saying these things out of greed and personal enrichment without any regard for human rights.

              Edit: not entertaining any more replies from bad faith arguments. I agree with the fundamental truth that Biden is a centrist and had a large part in Trump becoming president again but the additional minutae re: Gaza is what foreign actors like Russia really want most of all - to splinter the left even more than it already is. We can’t let perfection get in the way of progress. We’ll just continue to sit here and bicker amongst each other while Republicans continue to steamroll everyone, including Palestinians.

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                So your problem is merely the optics? That biden had better optics for his support of genocide? That makes him better how??

                Like he knew fully well what the endgame was and didn’t flinch, but I guess he wasn’t as gauche as boasting about how he personally profits from it…

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        Obviously you don’t understand that liberal means a terrible thing in other countries. Or, so I am reliably informed here. Regularly. Like, constantly.

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      IF YOU THINK TYPING IN ALL CAPS WILL MAKE PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOU, YOU ARE INCORRECT.
      AND YOU SAY HARRIS WAS THE “ONE PERSON” HUH. I DONT THINK YOU COUNT VERY WELL.

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      Yup. These are the chucklefucks who handed Trump the presidency. Now they want to scream at everyone else, but themselves. Embarrassing.

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    The VP has basically no power other than try to persuade the POTUS behind the scenes, which from what I’ve read, she did to some degree, but to no effect.

    Where she blew it was when she said she wouldn’t do anything different than Biden. That was the end for her campaign. (regardless of whether anyone thinks it should have been that way or not, IMO that was the death blow)

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      The VP has basically no power other than try to persuade the POTUS behind the scenes, which from what I’ve read, she did to some degree, but to no effect.

      The POTUS didn’t dictate her positions during the campaign. Stop making excuses just because she supported genocide for you.

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      Yeah, she was going to become a war criminal, but the voters let her down.

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      She presided over the US senate and cannot be dismissed by the president, how did she have “basically no power”???

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        Agreed…Also, if she had no power and is not responsible for anything Bidens government did, how is she at all capable of doing the job of the president? her qualifications were that she was a fly on the wall and observed others, but didnt participate in any meaningful way, huh. She simultaneously blameless and had no power, but also the most experienced, most qualified to do the job and the only one the DNC could possibly put up against trump. What a fuckin joke of a party.

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        Obviously, as I said, I’m talking about power to decide policy. The VP (as it has been for all of them, not just her) can advise, try to persuade, but it’s the POTUS who makes the final decisions.

        The VP can’t override the POTUS on anything. That’s just a fact.

        There are lots of replies conflating that fact with the positions she took during her campaign. She was obviously totally responsible for positions she took in the campaign. I’m not sure Trump wouldn’t have still won no matter what positions she took, but we’ll never know. Point is, she took the positions she did, and she lost.

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      Where she blew it was when she said she wouldn’t do anything different than Biden. That was the end for her campaign.

      iirc her campaign said “the Biden people” demanded she say that.

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        She wasn’t required to listen to the biden people. The biden people hid his mental decline until it was too late. Their political instincts are runny dogshit just like their entire wing of the party.

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        So either she should have not made that promise or she should have broken it. Easy enough. It’s not like she didn’t know what was on the line.

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          I think that’s a hindsight sort of thing. Of course she should have. But we all know the answer.

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    Where exactly is she shaken?

    I only see her standing up for a splitsecond and then a smirk at the end.

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      I know this is very very old news / old man yells at clouds but,

      Couldn’t you just slap “visibly shaken” onto fucking anything? Headlines suck

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        No doubt. Every other day there’s something claiming that dtRump has gone “off the rails” or is “having a meltdown”. Or Stephen Miller. Or Musk.

        Show proof, clickbait-whoring pimps.

        This video showed no proof. Pretty much the opposite of what was stated in the headline.

        Protestor interrupts Kamala pimping her book with accusations of right wing genocide & responsibility for getting Trump in office, she replies with a smirk

        Would that be a more accurate header?

        I think so.

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      That smirk makes me unreasonably angry. That protester was 100% correct, and there’s zero self-reflection. She’s out there flogging her books when she should be mounting an opposition.

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    Good for that protestor. Look at that dumb smug bribe-taking loser smiling on stage. What a waste.

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      Stop living in the American ethos bubble by only comparing her and others to the politicians within our borders. Relative to what the world considers Left and Right to be, she and Biden are Right wing.

      She was a world leader. She must be measured as such.

      Edit: I don’t think the message warranted moderation and removal.

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        So we should judge her by European standards which you are calling “the world’s standard”? The left= anti-capitalist is very much a European perspective.

        Let’s not continue to mistake Europe and European views for “The World” because that is historically problematic. Much of the world is still trying to figure out what rights people have from/by their governments.

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          No, you mushroom. I stated the parameters. You’re just too myopic to see beyond your own nose. Kamala is right of center, even in the USA. She’s not “left wing.” She’s left of Trump. I don’t see a single reference to Europe in my first comment.

    • On of the things that allowed Trump to become president is the division among those who were against him.

      She and Biden were right wing war criminal though. Why is it crazy to acknowledge the truth? Because lying and pretending we can be friends with right-wing war criminals might help elect a right-wing war criminal that’s not as insane as the right-wing war criminal that ended up getting elected?

      Kamala and Biden said they don’t care about voters who they’ve alienated by committing genocide. They knowingly caused such division, so they’re all to blame for that. Trump being elected can fairly be blamed on them.

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      she definitely is both right wing and a war criminal. she supported genocide… isn’t much more obvious than that…

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        centrists want to keep supporting genocide without being called the only thing they have ever been.

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      Harris is far from being a leftist, but calling her a right wing war criminal is crazy.

      She supported genocide exactly like you’re doing here.

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          Yes, yes, Anyone who doesn’t agree with centrists and their support of genocide and absolutely nothing else ever must be a scary foreigner. It explains why you support republican border policy. Don’t want those anti-genocide furriners getting in and giving americans the idea that genocide isn’t the only good in this world.

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      She wasn’t a rightwing war criminal because she didn’t have real power yet, but she was definitely an aspiring rightwing war criminal. Surprise surprise, materially supporting genocide is a war crime.

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        She did exercise power and influence. She herself confirmed she was actively involved in these decisions.

        And as Biden’s border czar, she deported so many people that even Stephen Miller is struggling to keep pace with her numbers.

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      Yeah but things are so much better for palestine under trump. larger munitions are essentially the same, not getting aid as the same as not getting enough. formal annexation of their land is the same as the status quo. This international relations equal war crime is so annoying.

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      First off, I want to be clear that I’m not making excuses for Kamala. This is more of a tangent, but people should know that even though it seems weird, smiling is a natural stress response for some folks.

      The instance that is seared into my memory is when I got the phone call that there was an earthquake in the country where my sibling was staying and we hadn’t yet heard from her (she ended up being ok). No matter how tried to fight it, my face couldn’t help but twist into a grin. It kinda fucked me up. Like: “What is my body trying to tell me?” “Do I subconsciously want them to die?” It was only years later that I found out that this is normal. Looking back, I think it especially sucks for kids who can’t help it, can’t explain it, and get the “Do you think this is funny!” treatment.

      Anyway, if you find yourself or someone else in a similar situation, please don’t judge too harshly.

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        No, this is definitely the smile of i do not take you seriously. Kamala is paid by aipac and promised to continue giving billions to maintain settler colonialism

        All her jobs required stress management you can’t convince me that she is stressed for a random perdon screaming at her. This is definitely not similar to someone panicing because of an earthquake

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        Anyway, if you find yourself or someone else in a similar situation, please don’t judge too harshly.

        She supports genocide. She gets no benefit of the doubt. She was smiling because she was trying to contain laughter.

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    People like Biden and Harris and Obama and the Clintons are leading us down the road of complacence to the fundamental problems that are destroying us. They deserve nothing but derision and scorn. This is the test of our time. The future is with, in so much as it can be “with” politics, people like Mamdani and Platner. If you are against these policy proposals and against the culture of these campaigns, you are against progressive politics and you are against rational governance.

    If you’re against these campaigns you can go fuck yourself right to hell, and you will be written into history accordingly.

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      There is absolutely no reason to cast out Trump, Vance, Johnson, and Miller if we don’t also cast out Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and Jeffries. The old Democratic guard is committed to just leading us right back to where we are now.

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      Graham “Forgot to mention I was a Blackwater mercenary” Platner is definitely not it.

      Zohran is also starting to become a letdown.

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    I always thought AIPAC bribes were kinda cheap, but then when you compare it to other lobbying groups and even bribes for spies, that’s just an excellent deal on Israel’s part.

    They can literally buy almost any politician, and they’ll defend Israel to the death even after the stakes have dropped to zero. She’s not running for 2028, has practically nothing to lose except money, but still defends probably one of the worst Democratic campaigns for decades.

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    To say “we have trump because of you”… trump is trying to create an apocalypse on earth and kamala is the villain.

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      What’s your issue? Nothing about the statement is inaccurate. Though it is missing a lot of context, such as it was Clinton who ordered the pied piper strategy to elevate Trump to the nomination, so she shares a lot of the blame.

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        I don’t think we’re going to get someone to the left of Kamala for the next few presidents. All the protest voters helped our country choose hard mode, and a lot of them are trying to rationalize it in any way that doesn’t make them feel like they played a part in such a close election.

        We have Trump because more people voted for Trump, and lots of people didn’t vote at all. You could blame Biden or Kamala, sure, but the entire political party could also be blamed, along with the establishment itself. Was Kamala the best candidate to run? Probably not. Biden decided to try for another term, though, and we ended up where we are.

        When you can choose between the lesser of 2 evils, or not choose at all: be aware of what “not choosing” will actually do.

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          I don’t think we’re going to get someone to the left of Kamala for the next few presidents.

          Then you’re not going to win any elections for the next few presidents

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              “I support the extermination of all Arabs; the only thing I care about is shedding the blood of foreign infants and there is nothing I wouldn’t do to support the victory of the white race”

              Never change .world

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              What they said is 99% republican cannot win against 100% republican because Republican policy is extremely unpopular with anyone who might vote democrat, therefore if they keep running moderates, they will continue to lose.

              Idk how you got that shit, but if you need help comprehending anything else, just ask instead of whatever lead you to believe they support trump.

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                Wow, I think I stuck a nerve.

                I have sadly seen way to often the ml bad faith arguments. And again and again useful idiots falling for them.

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                Hey, I wanted to apologize. We got in a brief back and forth in another thread, and I had you pinned wrong. You’re one of the good ones.

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          Your comment is exactly why Hillary and Harris lost. Even now, you can’t see that the compromise candidate will eventually fail, and continue to fail, because their values don’t match the voters.

          And hey, if you had written this comment before 2016, or even before 2024, we could understand your instinct. You might not have realized how the Dems’ shift to the right would undercut the entire party. But now you should be able to figure it out. Take Harris’s policies, for example. Which ones were going to benefit the average American? She was weak on Israel, her border strategy was xenophobic (and therefore racist), her home owner tax credit would not have lowered housing or rent prices for the vast majority of Americans… In other words, even if she got everything she wanted, would it have made our lives better? I just don’t see it, and neither did hundreds of millions of Americans.

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          All it would take to be left of Harris is opposing genocide and unlawful deportations.

          The problem is that you Blue MAGAs support fascism, too, but you believe yourselves better than the Red MAGAs because you like fascists with a commitment to decorum. And you project that onto the rest of us, so you think our rejection of these Democrats is simply a rejection of decorum. Just like the Red MAGAs, you cannot even conceive of any “good American” rejecting your party’s fascism. And probably, just like them, you don’t actually pay attention to the policies you’re really supporting. You just treat it like team sports.