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TheOubliette

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  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • You have correctly identified the relevant difference: rhetorical approach.

    Biden-Harris: feigned concern and "ceasefire" claims while providing unconditional support for the genocide.

    Trump: no feigned concern or "ceasefire" claims while (presumably) providing unconditional support for the genocide.

    But this difference means nothing materially, of course. If someone punches you with a smile on their face do you thank them for it?

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  • Tlaib has generally been the sole voice against US support for Israel in Congress and very publicly refused to endorse Harris days before the election.

    She got nearly twice the support in her district as Harris did.

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  • This is because none of it is enforced and it OOS just a fig leaf. They claimed to embargo "offensive" weaponry while keeping a firehose of JDAM shipments to the Zionist entity.

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  • The more common correlary was to sit on one's hands and provide consent for genocide or to try to vote shame on support of genocidal candidates.

    Though I think you know that those who stand with Palestine tend to be more politically active than your typical Democratic voter. I know I don't see your type in the streets or running education programs or building connections to support Palestinians directly.

  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • Trump said to lift all military restrictions on Israel on 1st day in office according to reports

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  • There were two ways to vote for Trump. 1) Mark Trump on your ballot and turn it in, or 2) Not vote for Harris, not turn in a ballot at all.

    By this logic a vote for Jill Stein would be a vote for Harris, lol. Question your political masters, this just isn't logical at all.

    Quit being coy, just take a bow and acknowledge your victory.

    It is good for Democratic voters to have failed while supporting genocide. You shouldn't support genocide and I shouldn't have to lecture you like this. Be a good person.

    You stood strong against genocide, and helped elect the only candidate who can't be reasoned with and whose stated political policy was to SPEED UP THE GENOCIDE.

    Israel already has unconditional support for its genocide and opened up two new fronts with the suppory of the Biden-Harris administration. Israel does not have one hsnd tied behind its back. The dominant global empire supports it materially and diplomatically.

    Your lesser evil logic means nothing here. It is again just a thought terminating cliché from your political masters. Instead of justifying lesser-evil genocide, please go and inform yourself and work to help others.

    Congrats! If you thought their blood wasn't on your hands before, it absolutely is now.

    Blood is on the hands of those committing and supporting genocide, not those who fifht against it. Look at how this political illogic has twisted your understanding of basic reality.

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  • I bet you couldn't even name a single example

  • She voted for Trump. Now she fears losing the Obamacare plan that saved her life (2017)

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  • Blue MAGA needs their Two Minutes Hate. They're continuing their "you deserve everything you get" arc rather than doing any self-criticism about politics or its mechanisms or whether they shouldn't have gone all in on genocide.

  • BI: AOC asked voters why they backed her candidacy and Trump's reelection. They said the economy and Gaza.

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  • Harris is an empty suit candidate. She has no consistent policy positions. She has never stuck her neck out for anything. Harris has ever won a presidential primary and lost to Andrew Yang (lmao).

    She was selected behind closed doors, presumably by donors and horse trading with party insiders. She is exactly the kind of candidate you would expect from that: someone that caters to donors, punches left, tries to embrace "never Trumpers" as the main campaign strategy. Left policies are directly against donors' interests.

    She is not your friend and not a good person, and is definitely not on your team. These people don't care about you and they don't care about things like whether they "insult their boss". Also, the president is not the boss of the VP, the VP can do whatever they want and the only consequences would be partu fallout. Distancing herself from Biden, both around the Democrats' embrace of genocide and the objective degradation in conditions due to a reduction in real wages, was the obvious way to actually try to win. And to be clear, as empty suits serving donor interests, ahe could have done both of those things in eords only and then done their bidding once in office. That is how beholden she is to donor interesrs: she couldn't even play the false promise game that every Dem uses to get elected.

    Harris has only ever indicated unwavering support for the genocide and the the wider ethnosupremacist apartheid settler colony that is Israel. This is entirely consistent with being a vehicle for donor interests, who are all wrapped up in the petrodollar and investments in Israel. There is no reason to think there was some kind of plan to hurt her election chances by demotivating the base and to then do the popular thing once in office. The tendency is to do the exact opposite of that.

    And if they convinced you to tolerate genocide for this, take a real hard look at yourself.

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  • Employers in the US often include "morality clauses" that mean they can fire you because they deem you to be harming the reputation of the company due to behavior outside of work.

    More importantly than "the rules", though, US employers can fire you for basically any reason they want and then just lie about it. Nobody is going to force them to be truthful. Not even if they are union busting. The Biden-Harris NLRB, which the president dragged his feet staffing and staffed with wet blankets, has even upheld the Trump NLRB Electrolux decision - and the vast majority of people never get to the point of launching a lawsuit that would be relevant, as it costs tens of thousands of dollars.

    If you want power in the workplace you need to organize a union competently and develop capacity real leverage (direct action, community support, naming and shaming).

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters take to NYC streets on Oct. 7 anniversary, college students walk out

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  • Your constant lesser evilism for a genocider and selective use of passive voice when it comes to the genocide in Gaza.

    What side am I trying to win you over to? The anti-genocide one? Do you want me to imply that what you're doing is not a serious moral and political failing?

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters take to NYC streets on Oct. 7 anniversary, college students walk out

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  • Maybe you'll actually be against genocide then

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters take to NYC streets on Oct. 7 anniversary, college students walk out

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  • I dunno when I tell them to be against genocide and do anything about it they just fall to pieces about how supporting the people doing genocide is their best smartest action.

    Sounds like something genocide supporters do when they need to feel reluctant about it.

  • Pro-Palestinian protesters take to NYC streets on Oct. 7 anniversary, college students walk out

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  • Lots of pro-genocide liberals are upset that you reminded them they want to vote for a genocider.

    How dare you.

  • No thanks, I keep my responsibilities to a minimum

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  • You are missing out on opportunities to have poop in interesting locations of your house.

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  • The constitutional amendment that outlawed slavery in the US provided one exception: anyone convicted of a crime.

    This was a tool of Jim Crow to maintain a sizeable black slave labor force via disproportionate criminalization of black people and poverty (newly-freed previous slaves were very poor, often illiterate). It was and is a tool of modern racialized hyper-exploited labor via the prison system. And it is likely a tool that US authorities are keeping in their back pocket for the mass criminalization of the homeless.