I don’t know why I’m surprised they don’t but I really expected that maybe this time they would care even a tiny bit.
Like they kinda sorta cared a little bit about healthcare for a minute and that blew over, and then they kinda sorta cared about minority rights for longer than I expected so that was cool but these issues are actually kind of historically complex and difficult to solve so I wasn’t too surprised when libs just… fucking forgot. Climate change, me too, student loan debt…all sorta kinda complex in certain ways.
But genocide is so simple. It’s probably the least complicated issue that libs have ever had to confront. Bombs go out children go boom it cannot be less complicated.
And yet here we are with libs across America hand wringing about how well it’s maybe not genocide and maybe it’s somehow complicated and maybe we should talk about it after we defeat Trump who we’re SURE will do this complicated thing we can’t quite understand worse somehow.
I guess if genocide staring libs in the actual face isn’t enough to get them to care a tiny itty bitty bit about maybe trying to do something good for once…is there anything that possibly could? I can’t imagine much worse of a thing than literal genocide. Maybe libs are just wholly incapable of using their brains or their hearts in any capacity at all.
And if that’s the case is there any hope at all? I know there is but man this moment watching this election and everyone cheering wholeheartedly for as much genocide as they possibly can might be one of the most hopeless I’ve ever felt
A few years ago, “let’s compromise and only do half genocide” was an over the top parody of how centrists think. It was deliberately hyperbolic and provocative because nobody seriously believes in “half genocide”, you would think.
Now liberals are actually arguing for voting for the Democrats on the basis that “both will aid the genocide but the republicans will aid it more and harm other groups too”.
Yeah I remember using that as a rhetorical tool to get people to understand why the answer doesn’t “always lie in the middle;” as the “middle” of “no slavery” and “full slavery to whoever we want” is “slavery for some,” which is still untenable — and same goes for genocide or any number of other terrible things. Now I get browbeaten by democrat-voters about how “not supporting some genocide is supporting full genocide!!!” While the democrats do full genocide anyway, too. But just leak “news stories” about how biden is grumbling and frustrated with Netanyahu, while going around congress to funnel guns and bombs to them as fast as possible