• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    You can be 2 things at the same time. This whole thread is about voting. It’s possible to pressure Biden while also voting against the undeniably worse candidate.

    What doesn’t make sense is voting in a way that will end up significantly worse for Gaza and saying you’re doing that because you can’t possibly support Biden.

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      6 months ago

      It’s possible to pressure Biden while also voting against the undeniably worse candidate.

      Then centrists should start doing the former in addition to the latter.

      Instead, they scream that anyone who does the former wants trump.

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        6 months ago

        I think when you joint a thread that’s about voting, or references voting, these are the comments you’re going to see. Doesn’t means we’re “centrists”, just means we care about the election results IN ADDITION TO the state of our world.

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          6 months ago

          Doesn’t means we’re “centrists”, just means we care about the election results IN ADDITION TO the state of our world.

          If you care about election results, you should be doing everything you can to pressure Biden to abandon a losing issue.

          If not “centrist”, what term would you prefer for people who would rather support genocide and lose to Trump with all that entails than abandon support for genocide and win?

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                6 months ago

                Probably cause centrists don’t care about Gaza as much as liberals. I don’t know cause I’m not a centrist. I’m a liberal that doesn’t like what’s going on in Gaza, but will vote against Trump no matter what happens.

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                  6 months ago

                  I don’t know cause I’m not a centrist. I’m a liberal that doesn’t like what’s going on in Gaza, but will vote against Trump no matter what happens.

                  And I’m a progressive who has said multiple times in this thread that I’m voting for Biden. I bitterly resent being manipulated into voting in a way that renders me monstrous, and I hope he stops supporting genocide.

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                    6 months ago

                    Well, I don’t think somebody voting against Biden because of his Israel position is a monster. I think they are misguided and playing directly into the hands of Trump who would do even more harm to Gaza.