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YOU LITERALLY BOUGHT VOTES

All this has done is make me want a steam deck even harder.

We can't give people water when waiting to vote, but this is fine. 🙄

I have no rebuttal. I'm in agreement with the idea that it should have been a movement. I was taking it as people saying "if you voted for Harris, you're okay with genocide." I get the "hold your nose a vote" thing now.

Nice talking with you and thank you for being cordial. 🤝🏾

I'm not being flippant or trying to be sarcastic (I know tone doesn't carry online), but wasn't the act of not voting/withholding votes supposed to be the opportunity for real change? Wasn't that the "threat" (couldn't think of a better term). Like, "Because you're not agreeing to xyz, I am withholding my vote." Isn't the current time line the result of that success, when it came to telling people to not vote as a form of protest anyway.

And if you sympathize with people in October who said "it's too late," what's the difference between that and "it's too late, we can't do anything (right now)?" I think those two groups are the same people in a way.

You're right, I didn't read all of your comment. I skimmed it at best (which is why I didn't reply directly). The choice was not "civil rights at home" and "genocide abroad." it was "both suck with Gaza, but one is a blood thirsty dumbass, and the other is your run of the mill bullshit politician." i don't know who is spreading this narrative that everyone who voted was voting for genocide or voting with the idea of trade off. I have not met anyone (personally) who was like," man, I hate Harris' stance on Gaza, but as long as she gives me rights, I don't care." It was Nazi VS Shitty Politician. I don't know why the concept of not wanting to have a Nazi in charge is akin to saying "yes, please bomb Gaza. I'm totally okay with it." I wasn't okay with it when Biden did it, I wasn't okay when Harris said she supported Biden's actions, and I'm not okay with it now that Trump is making Ai videos of condos built on graves. I did oppose genocide and I still do.

Also, what option did I eliminate? You're acting like election day was the only time people tried anything. In November, yes, it was too late. We didn't rally behind a third candidate, we didn't even get to vote for Harris as our candidate. There were protests, but, by November, it wasn't enough. We failed. And as much as I would have wanted to say "fuck this" I knew that it wasn't going to make literally anything any better by not voting, but would make a shit ton worse because one candidate can do and appears to be doing more damage to the other.

TL;DR: I have and still do oppose genocide and I do not believe that on election night there was a realistic chance that we could get a candidate in office that aligned with everything I would have wanted, but there was a candidate that would have made the struggle a tiny bit easier. I do not believe that Americans that voted for Harris (or honestly didn't vote all all, regardless of my opinion) were doing it with the idea that Gaza was a worthy scarfice.

Usually those places are lacking (unfortunately). Food deserts, lack of infrastructure, sometimes even poor medical facilities. Also, locations like these tend to be more conservative, and conservatives are not always the most friendly. I personally did move to a smaller area, but I don't have a family/kids so I'm able to be more indifferent towards the lack of resources. (I also moved to the hood 👀)

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They're not going to want to hear it. For them, wanting your country to not fall apart equals being okay with genocide. It doesn't matter that everything is much, much worse. There is even a comment saying this is our punishment for funding genocide. Families that are being broken apart, rights stripped away, growing tensions with literally everyone, and a fucking DOGE department, that's our punishment for trying to not make things not as terrible as they could be.

I'm so fucking sick of them going "Oh, so you don't care. You're okay with bombing people." No, no we are not. We are not over here giggling happily at the horror going on. I didn't see anyone in the town halls or protest going, "now, we're okay with genocide, but only if we have rights." Just because we are also worried about our country does not automatically mean that we don't care anyone else.

The people in my country are also important. I want them to have Healthcare and food and basic rights. Trying to make the best choice out of two shitty choices is not us going "well, genocide is a okay." Over, and over, and over we were told there's no difference between who was elected. BUT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. This is the fucking difference. I don't want to focus on fucking Musk and Trump. I don't even see people speak about the genocide as much anymore because we're drowning in Trump/Musk news. The protests in my area have shifted because we can't protest if we don't even have the right to do so. We can't vote against anything if we CAN'T FUCKING VOTE.

I wish it was as simple as just not voting, or at the very least not having a two party system, but we did not have that option last election. It was either Harris or Trump. Did I fucking want Harris? NO! Did I believe she would be, even if by a small amount, easier to deal with than Trump, yes. Yes I fucking did. But I fuck me I guess for caring about Gaza and my countrymen.

Isn't there some grave that women wanting to be pregnant grind on? Are they going to ban that too?

If they were both drunk, could either of them consent?

And his victim wasn't also young and talented? Are they concerned about how the victim will go on when this fucker walks back on campus?

If you won't let me vote, then you will hear me scream 🤷🏿‍♀️