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Rephrased: the choice was endorsing genocide, endorsing genocide, or not endorsing genocide.
I'm happy with the choice I made, and disgusted that you're willing to sign your name off to endorse piles of dead children to protect your own privilege and comfort.
If supporting a holocaust is the price of protecting America, then the price is too high and we should refuse to pay it regardless of what comes next.
Not to mention that the Harris campaign's internal polling revealed they never had her polling higher than Trump. They knew she had no chance of winning, and pressed on with her word-salad anyway. The Democrats could've run someone like Bernie (who is also a lame liberal Zionist) and won easily, even at his age. But they can't do that, because their primary function in the empire is to kill emergent left-wing revolutionary movements.
You're defending the enemy and the system which produced these consequences you're ostensibly so appalled by.
Of course you’re happy with your choice. Most people who lack responsibility are.
Ad hominem with no actual counterpoints
This is why we call you people Blue MAGA
The counterpoints are you used the Palestinian tragedy as an excuse for your laziness and lack of responsibility.
That you and others not voting elected Trump and made things worse for the people whose back you rode on with your shitty opinion and lack of national duty. They’re an excuse you use to cover your spinelessness and laziness.
You voted to worsen that genocide, not help it. You’re the reason it occurred, you were played and the Palestinians paid with their life to play grubs like you.
Hang your head in shame, both for using Palestinians as your excuse and for letting your countrymen down.
That's actually just more ad hominem, not a meaningful counterpoint. Want to try again?
And I have absolutely zero "national duty" to a nation predicated on genocide, white supremacy, and environmental degradation. I do have a duty to humanity - a label which, contrary to common liberal ethos, applies no less to Palestinians than it does to Americans.
This is the only slightly-true thing you said because, yes, I am partially responsible in that I was fooled into for voting for Biden in 2020. The genocide began with the founding of the illegitimate Zionazi state, but it certainly increased in intensity under Biden. Don't worry, it's not a mistake I'll ever make again.
Coming from someone who rides on the backs of others deaths, say what you like, honestly.
Yeah we know.
Well, you put them there. It’s on you. Well done.
No, it’s fully true. Learning that you actually did something right last election makes it worse. Unless you’re lying.
More riding on the backs of dead people to cover your shitty act and make you look good.
I won’t. You’re not hurting me, only yourself and, given you’re not a Russian plant which could be just as possible, your countrymen.
Certainly, the Russians and Netanyahu find you a useful idiot at best.
Now go crawl back under your rock, I’m watching football.
ok liberal
There was going to be a supporter of genocide in the office in any case. You had the choice between a supporter of genocide, and a supporter of genocide with a fascist program. You chose the high road and got the worst outcome.
Your issue was pride.
Thank you for perfectly illustrating my point.
If you call refusing to sign my name to endorse genocide "pride", then absolutely I am prideful as all fuck and will wear that badge proudly.
Your issue was cowardice. Maintaining your own comfort is more important than making even the most pithy stand.
Oh yes, by not voting you sacrificed so much of your comfort. You made such a worthy stand.
You have achieved nothing else than enabling Trump. And you don't even realise it.
The Trump campaign counted on people like you to win. You served them well.
Don't bother with them. The useful idiot lacks any capacity for logical reasoning.
That's okay, I guess. I don't care who won because they're the same. That's the point.
If I voted for Shitler by not voting for Holocaust Harris, did I also vote for Holocaust Harris by not voting for Shitler? Infinite vote glitch unlocked!
They're not even remotely the same.
It is concerning that you do not understand that not voting enabled Trump. You're a lost cause.
Here we go. Funny how the Gaza news cycle dropped the past year. It's almost like it's a non issue now that the election cycle is over.
Hasn't dropped for me. Don't care what the corporate media is doing or saying. Why would I?