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  • How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel’s war? Here is my answer | Bernie Sanders

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  • Would you like me to make a pdf with some words and some awful photos of what palestine would look like with a Trump supported Netanyahu?

    You realise that Netanyahu wants you to abstain from voting right?

    Russia, China, Israel, all understand that they can't get you to vote for Trump, so they've been pouring many millions of dollars into manipulating your good self into not voting.

    In the article from this post Sanders explains in great detail why Harris is the most likely to negotiate a cease fire. Is that what you would like?

    If you refuse to vote for Harris you're actively supporting genocide.

  • How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel’s war? Here is my answer | Bernie Sanders

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  • You're actively supporting genocide.

    It's very obvious to absolutely everyone that allowing Trump to win will produce the worst possible outcome for palestinians.

    I honestly feel sorry for you. I think there's a strong possibility your own kids and grandkids will be asking you about this time in history, and I suspect you're going to realise in future how silly this "do x or I won't vote for you" position is.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • Stopping Trump with the courts is autocratic.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • For the millionth time, locking up a candidate during an election cycle would make the winner of the election an autocrat by default.

    You would've become everything you hate about the republicans.

  • Supreme Court rejects push to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballot in two swing states

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  • IDK, maybe go to the booth with your spouse and shuffle through the queue just to look like you're participating.

    As an aside... I really liked my grandma, but it's true that she wasn't well informed about politics. One time she told me that she always voted for the opposite party my granddad voted for, just to cancel out his vote.

  • Supreme Court rejects push to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from ballot in two swing states

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  • Not entirely sure what you're getting at.

    It's amazing how little most people know about politics. There would absolutely be loads of people that would vote for rfk Jr.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • You're misunderstanding me. It doesn't blow my mind that a Democrat should go to jail if they break the law, of course they should.

    I wholeheartedly agree that everyone should be subject to the rule of law and that both republicans and democrats should be tried for their crimes. The problem that I don't think you've really accounted for, at least not in your comments, is corruption. I'm sure you will agree that the judicial system in the US is partisan, and guilt can be determined according to ideology.

    If courts are encouraged to try cases against candidates for elections, you can guarantee that courts will be used nefariously. There are numerous examples of failed democracies where courts are used in that way to legitimise autocrats.

    You would be correct in calling this a design flaw, or an inherent limitation of democracy. It's a complex problem with no good solution.

    A few months ago I would have agreed with you that Trump ought to be locked up. If he had been locked up 18 months ago, that would have been fantastic. However, after much thought I've come to the conclusion that the only way forward is for him to be beaten in the election.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • All I can do is to keep rephrasing the same points you're trying to avoid.

    Do you really want a court to decide the outcome of an election?

    Do you need me to enumerate the many problems that would cause?

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  • Semantics.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • It's not Trumps electoral desires that outweigh the legal process. The electoral process is the core of democracy, and it can't be subverted by a public institution.

    If the electorate is stupid enough to elect an insurrectionist and serial bankruptee then public institutions including courts must allow them to do so. That's a fundamental inescapable component of democracy.

    Yes a Trump presidency will be a disaster for everyone. Yes Trump deserves to face the consequences of his many crimes. Yes the American public is about to make a terrible mistake.

    However, the dirty complex unsolvable problem is that Trump may have enough support to be elected President. The court is not the right tool to address that issue, because the court is empowered albeit indirectly by the electorate.

    It natural to want court processes to expose Trump as the fraud he is and cut his chances at a second presidency. It wouldn't necessarily work out that way though. Courts are regularly used in faux-democracies to empower autocrats. That would be the perception amongst Trump's base and really, if we're allowing courts to influence elections then the only thing separating us from "autocrats" is that we think we're the goodies and they're the baddies which is obviously a furphy.

    The only way to get rid of Trump is at the polls. Beat him in the election, send him to jail, watch him disappear into his worst nightmare of irrelevance.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • This is so tedious.

    Please, by all means, continue wishing that you lived in a country where courts are used to subvert democratic processes.

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  • Let's be honest, most share trading is more like gambling than it is like investing.

  • Tony Hinchcliffe doubles down on racist Trump rally jokes and hits out at critics: ‘Change your tampon’

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  • There's a lot of this on lemmy, like the shitpost sub.

    Any topic is fine because it's a shitpost aparently. Hilarious.

  • Kamala Harris says she'd take a cognitive test; challenges Trump "to take the same one"

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  • In fairness, "most" people his age would be below "average".

    Edit: oh, apparently it doesn't work like that. 100 is supposed to be average regardless of age?

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  • What a shit show.

  • Trump says he will not run again if he loses November presidential election

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  • I really doubt that.

    It's amazing that he has so much support amongst the republicans even now, after he lost the last election.

  • Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania

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  • It doesn't have to.

    In US politics you ha e to win someone's vote twice. Firstly to have them think you're the best choice, and secondly to have them vote.

    This will prompt a lot of tepid Harris supporters to actually vote for her.

  • Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall

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  • Because people are the product, and these anti-features improve the extortability of that product.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • Sorry chief, you've misunderstood my argument. I'm not going to repeat myself ad nauseam so you're welcome to keep thinking that I'm a Trumptard and that I (along with every judge in the US) am mistaken about the role of courts in democracy and more specifically in elections.