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    We are there.

    I will vote for Joe Biden if he publicly condemns Israel. From his lips. In an address to the nation.

    I will not if he doesn’t.

    Simple as that.

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      It’s a two party system. You vote Biden or get Trump. Trump has less problem with ethnic cleansing. If fact Trump is the kind that might try it in the US.

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        He already has plans for it, and using the military to do it. He has made it clear he plans to go full fascist right from day one if he were to win again. It’s his only way to not spend the rest of his life in prison (and he loves the idea of being a dictator).

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          I think if he tries that, the US breaks down as there is no way everyone will go with it.

          Trump winning is a win for the enemies of the US and a win for the enemies of the wider free world.

          Edit: Add a few words for clarity.

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              Honestly, I’m willing to let it happen just for the smug invertebrate liberal bootlickers to finally experience what liberals have been doing to every hood I lived in for the last 30 years. Fuck 'em, settler-descent crackers are not my countrymen, especially not if they think they’re going to cudgel me into supporting a genocidal segregationist that already ripped my family apart more than once from '94 onwards.

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            I wasn’t planning on voting for trump, but when you put it that way…

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              OK ok, I’ve edited to be more explicit. Though I’m sure everyone knew the interpretation I meant…

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                Then let me be more explicit, too: Amerika tore my family apart across four hundred years of its history, continues to tear my family apart, refuses to cede my people actual liberation and freedom, and still demands our support like they’re not STILL interring us in prison chattel slavery or extrajudicially executing us in the streets.

                What the blue donkeyfuck makes you think I’m an ally of this shithole? What the blue donkeyfuck makes you think I’m going to exert ANY effort in perpetuating this monstrous, genocidal hell? Biden and Trump will do the same shit; so to me? The only way either of them can hang is with a rope.

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            That’s true but Biden winning accomplishes the same. No this isn’t a both sides argument, it’s understanding that many outside nations have invested in dividing our nation politically. The only win would be a 3rd party win and that won’t happen in my lifetime.

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              That is a both sides argument. Trump is a new level of bad. If you want to have any chance of a future with a better political system, you want to keep Trump out. If you don’t vote Biden, you can’t complain if you get Trump.

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                Trump is only a “new level of bad” to liberals that weren’t paying attention before.

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                  See if you still feel like if he gets in and does things like taking measures to stay in longer than another single term, withdraw from NATO and the UN.

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                    withdraw from NATO and the UN

                    why do you keep making him sound cool? trump won’t do any of these things if he’s elected

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              Trump winning is a win for the enemies of the US and the enemies of the wider free world.

              I can’t tell why, but the first three seconds of Harlem Shake keep playing in my head reading that quote. Couldn’t tell you why.

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        So Biden is allowed to do whatever he wants, we are obligated to vote for him, as long as he’s just a tiny bit less bad than trump would be?

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          Logically, yes, unless you come up with another option that realistically results in a better outcome. Nobody’s asking you to be happy about the shitty state of affairs.

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          That’s why the system has to change. Trump will change the system, but not the way you want at all.

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        Ya, Independent, Green, Libertarian, Constitution.

        Those parties don’t exist.

        The genocidal fascist whose boots you’re licking told you so.

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          Well good luck with that. I hope you guys don’t vote in Trump again, for all our sake.

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            Well, good luck with that.

            I hope your rhetoric doesn’t perpetuate the cycle of America lesser eviling it to Ultra Mega Hitler as POTUS.

            Edit: To clarify, Trump is currently strangled by litigation diet coke button and removing a bike rack harmless loudmouth capable not Hitler with 60 percent of a country ready to fight him status.

            Biden however has made the Democrat base support genocide.

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          You think Trump is less pro-genocide? Until you can change the system, you end up choosing who you think is less genocidy.

          Edit: spelling

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            You misunderstand.

            If my only choices are to vote for “genocide” and “more genocide”, why shouldn’t I cast a 9mm ballot into the roof of my mouth?

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                Well it’d have to be suitably public, but a suicide of a street vendor helped kick off the Arab Spring. Mohamed Bouazizi achieved a lot.

                Besides that, if every vote I cast is a vote for genocide, then don’t I deserve to die? Have you listened to the interviews? Have you seen the bodies in the rubble? I’d rather kill myself than support that, and if everything I do supports genocide then I should kill myself. I deserve it.

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                  But you’re not voting for Genocide. Noone is giving you that option. Your vote or lack thereof has no effect on whether the US supports Israel’s Genocide of the PalestiniN people. If you want to oppose the genocide, join a march. Put up posters

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                    But you’re not voting for Genocide.

                    If according to you, the only choices between candidates are one genocider and another genocider, that makes us complicit if we vote for either one. Which we categorically refuse. Trying to cudgel out a vote for your guy will only make me want you genocided.

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                    You literally are voting for genocide. You are telling the US government “yes, more of this please”

                    You could withhold your vote to put pressure on Biden’s administration. You won’t do that. Biden sees every blue-no-matter-who voter as a guaranteed vote and a reason to not change his policies in any way. They’ve literally said as much! They have said they aren’t worried about elections because Republicans are worse. This is what you’ve created, you voted for it.

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                So you’re saying in order to participate in the US electoral system you must make yourself responsible for some level of genocide? Contrary to lesser evil voters, you’re not responsible for other peoples votes, but you are responsible for yours. The fact that about 4 gerrymandered states determine the election is not my fault and doesn’t necessitate my participation in condoning any more genocide than I legally have to when I pay taxes.

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                  In the broken systems we both have, all you can do is tactically vote based on the outcomes you want the least. While arguing for better voting systems.

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                  And how does that translate into a two party voting system? One is multiple times worse than other. What can you do so neither ends up president? Nothing. You only choice is to choose the least bad.

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                    I referenced Tunisia because a man committing suicide literally changed their government.

                    If the only choice is “genocide lite” and “genocide deluxe” then the system must be destroyed.

                    If my only choice is to vote for genocide then I want to die.

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          Be certainly be good of Republicans come back from the edge. If the players are more balanced, the system can start to be adjusted to get away from being just Red vs Blue.

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        Then the democratic party should make the most basic effort to condemn genocide. I wont vote for the support of genocide. It’s really not a high bar. It’s frankly pathetic that you are suggesting we have accept that. That makes you explicitly in support of the ethnic cleansing of gaza and the people of Palestine. You are evil.

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          Plenty of them are. But you’re willing to toss them all out with a figurehead. The AICP is currently campaigning against several Democrats for calling out the genocide .Yeah Biden’s out of touch and a bit problematic. But this is the height of self-defeating virtue signaling. Not that it has stopped a lot of you in the past. San timoniously and hypocritically criticizing everyone else while doing nothing to make the situation actually better. Soothing your own conscience with trying to convince yourself that you’re meaningless gesture was worth it.

          Biden is what we are saddled with and it could be far worse. You need to take care of business this election cycle and the moment it’s over start pushing better people for 2028 or sooner.

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            That’s what people said last election. We always have to push them to be better the next election. Always settle for worse. What a shit electoral system the US has. And the hilarious part is that unless that person you’re talking to lives in a swing state their vote probably doesn’t matter anyway.

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            Very nice, you have made genocide into nothing more than virtue signaling. You are gross, your arguments are gross and it is your continued support to the establish us political system and parties that gave us trump to begin with.

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              Keep on virtue, signaling. And whatever you do don’t do anything that might actually help.

              It’s very telling that you can’t address any of the points I made. Acting offended is all you’ve got.

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          I’m evil? Strong language for someone suggesting Trump is a worse alternative than Biden.

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            You are evil and acting in bad faith. It’s hard to imagine how you think wanting a president who will condemn genocide means supporting trump. You don’t, you want to continue the dishonest dialog that the only discourse is we must accept the democratic party as is or else. What it is a threat and acting in bad faith.

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          In the US no vote is a republican vote. I know you don’t like to hear it but its the way it is. The fewer people that vote the higher their chances go up.

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            Then the democratic party should make the most minimal effort to win by standing against genocide.

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              No offense, but I really hope you are young and that’s the reason you are this naive. The next president is going to be either a democrat or a republican. Denying that reality so you can feel better about yourself is doing the people of Gaza no favors. You have no power of the situation and especially if you are in a swing state, the only thing you can do to help them is to keep the republicans out of the white house.

              I actually understand your thought process, I used to be the same way. I wish third parties were viable too and I wish we had better options, but right now, the best chance you personally can give Gaza is voting Democrat.

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        Stop doing that you insufferable pea-brained dolt.

        Not voting for Biden doesn’t mean I’m voting for Trump.

        Idiots like you sit there like your vote is a party popper you MUST use to show if your streamers and confetti are blue or red.

        I am disgusted with the options I am presented with. I get no streamers or confetti…

        Unless Biden condemns the Israeli genocide of Palestine and champions imposing massive embargoes on Israel while fully ceasing any funding in full.

        Then I might believe he (and the DNC) are humbling WAY the fuck up, listening to their constituents, and correcting course is the SMALLEST of ways.

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          I vote for anyone but Biden, or even a no vote, is a vote for Trump.

          If you think Palestine is in bad shape under Biden, try to imagine how much worse it’d be with Trump.

          The only way to get Democrat candidates on the left is to crush the right wing so that the Overton window moves.

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            Rewarding parties for doing nothing is good democracy actually 🤓 /s

            If America were a functional democracy the Democrats would actually court voters with real solutions to real problems. That’s not their goal. Let’s not forget that the country was founded as a rich boys club and the founding documents were designed to preserve it as such. That is still true to this day. You can’t pull the Democrats left because that’s not their fucking job

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            I vote for anyone but Biden, or even a no vote, is a vote for Trump.

            First they think of not voting. That’s one vote for Trump.

            Then they decide to vote for Trump. That’s two votes for Trump!

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            You are the uncle Tom piece of shit that has lead this country here.

            I do not vote for Biden. I do not vote for Trump.

            You can’t make me.

            Your rhetoric is outdated, idiotic, and counter-productive.

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              One of those two will be president no matter what you do. They will then be in a position capable of inflicting great damage. Trump will use that position to hurt more people than Biden. The math here isn’t complicated, and it continually astounds me how many people on the left cannot actually solve the trolly problem when faced with it for real. It really shows which people are engaged in politics as a means to an end rather than as personal expression or a hobby.

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                  I don’t support anyone. I oppose the worst outcome, and seek to steer our course away from it. Only narcissists and hobbyists hyperventilate about who they are “supporting”.

                  I engage in politics as a means to an end and nothing more. I take the best option available and I move on to the next task. To do otherwise is to value the self above the collective, and as a communist that is not a luxury I’m afforded.

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              Nobody is going to make you vote one way or another, but please recognize the following:

              The United States is currently a two party system. It sucks. We need to push for more ranked choice voting, as well as direct popular vote.

              However, until we’re able to achieve something that makes this parties viable, we will continue to have issues with the right wing getting undue influence in our politics.

              Vote with your heart, but make sure that you’re okay with another Trump presidency of you decide not to vote for Biden.

              Keep in mind as you do so that more than one state had enough votes for Jill Stein that if they had gone to Hillary, Trump never would have become president.

              We should have viable parties outside of the two not great to horrible parties we have now. But that’s simply not the way our government works as it stands now.

              Last thing: you’ve become a single issue voter. This is the lefty equivalent of only caring about abortion and ignoring literally everything else. Politics is complicated, and I personally find single issue voters incredibly shortsighted and lazy.

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                  Instead youll sit idle by as fascism takes over. You are no less responsible if you dont vote.

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                    Biden. Is. Funding. Genocide.

                    He is actively exploiting Bush era “emergency powers” that were never rolled back after 9/11 to sell artillery to Israel.

                    He is fascist too.

                    This is what happens when you let soft brained morons convince you that supporting lesser evil is mandatory. You support evil and both sides continually get worse.

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                    america is a fascist state you clueless cracker

                    just because “your” “group” isn’t the target YET doesn’t mean it’s not happening

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          I ask you, if there is one party that tries you stop you from voting in any way they can, doesn’t you not voting play into their hand?

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            Refusing to vote for Evil, any Evil, is a pretty straightforward moral position to take.

            Meanwhile your voting choice requires complex mental gymnastics to justify, which is quite an indication that you’re trying to come up with excuses for yourself for doing what you do not feel is the morally right thing to do.

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      I don’t think any presidential candidate would do that, even if that’s how they really felt. It’d be political suicide.

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        You don’t think any candidate would condemn genocide. Condemning genocide as a US presidential candidate is suicide…

        Isn’t that how fucked America is in a nutshell.

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          This is why I unironically believe Amerika as a nation, and as an identity, deserves to die. I finally figured out why Amerika won’t condemn Israel’s genocide, won’t condemn Nazism, will veto every attempt to do either-- it’s because these are the same kind of vile, murdering, thieving, and pillaging barbarian settlers as what we’re seeing in Occupied Palestine, and what we saw in Axis Germany. Only difference is Amerika completed both of its genocides in such a way that the survivors either won’t fight back anymore, or physically don’t have the numbers to meaningfully fight back anymore.

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      I don’t believe you would at all tbh.

      Just another concern troll pretend you give a fuck.

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        Well, I certainly won’t regardless of if or how the DNC tries to backpedal. Him and his morally bankrupt party are genociders; that stain doesn’t scrub off.

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        If I were in Nazi Germany and my choices were Hitler, a genocidal maniac or Himmler, a genocidal maniac, I would not vote for a genocidal maniac.