Endorsement of Stein and Butch Ware comes as Muslims channel anger over US support for Israel into supporting third parties

The Abandon Harris movement that sprouted late last year out of the widespread outrage over the Biden-Harris administration’s support for the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza has officially endorsed the Green Party’s Jill Stein for US president.

The endorsement is the first of its kind for Stein and the Green Party, with the Abandon Harris campaign being the first major Muslim-led political group to endorse her campaign this election cycle. Last month, a smaller group, the Muslim American Public Affairs Council NC, also endorsed Stein.

“We are not choosing between a greater evil and a lesser evil. We are confronting two destructive forces: one currently overseeing a genocide and another equally committed to continuing it. Both are determined to see it through,” the Abandon Harris campaign said in a statement released on Monday.

  • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1310·
    vor 2 Monaten

    You don’t think Trump is going to be infinitely worse than Harris on this issue in particular?

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
      184·
      vor 2 Monaten

      Being murdered in a genocide seems about as worse as it can get. Would Trump reanimate the corpses and then murder them again or something?

    • basmatii@lemm.eeEnglish
      122·
      vor 2 Monaten

      It doesn’t get worse than being genocided, is the point these people are making.

      Both Harris and Trump, equally think Muslims and other unwanted statistically brown people deserve to be subject to genocide and are willing to commit massive amount of funds to that end.

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
      105·
      vor 2 Monaten

      If Trump were doing it you might getout of your chair and materially oppose it rather than making excuses for an imagined lesser evil genocide.

      • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
        26·
        vor 2 Monaten

        So you want Trump in office because of that? You don’t care about anything else, I take it?

        • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
          63·
          vor 2 Monaten

          I think you should be against genocide and act accordingly rather than buying into the political illogic of your masters. A good start might be letting go of crutches like accusing everyone that calls out tacit support for Democratic genocide a Trump supporter.

            • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
              41·
              vor 2 Monaten

              You should be against genocide and act accordingly.

              PS Krasinski is a scab and a big fan of the CIA.

              • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
                23·
                vor 1 Monat

                I am against genocide, and I am acting accordingly. I am voting for the candidate that will cause less genocide, not more.

                • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
                  21·
                  vor 1 Monat

                  You’re announcing your vote for the people doing genocide. You don’t get to call yourself anti-genocide. You are for hypothetical-lesser-evil genocide. You do actual advocacy for people doing genocide.

                  You’d think that literal genocide might make Democratic voters question their electoral illogic around lesser evil cheerleading. You have the option of, for example, saying nothing.

                  In 1930s Germany you’d be a Nazi supporter saying, “well at least I’m not a monarchist antisemite”. Everyone imagines themselves as people who would leave or fight. Now you can see, in part, where the reactionaries and their sympathizers found footing, because you’d have been among them.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      75·
      vor 2 Monaten

      No Trump will be exactly the same. Only the words will be different.

      I do believe Jill Stein will be different though.

        • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
          41·
          vor 2 Monaten

          So glad to hear you will be campaigning in your state for electoral reform! You wouldn’t point out the flaws of First past the post voting and then do nothing to solve the issue would you? Democrats believe in democracy, so it should be a easy sell. Looking forward to your updates!

          • Guy Dudeman@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            vor 2 Monaten

            Absolutely! I’ve been advocating for ranked choice voting and similar methods for years. But until we get people into office who are sympathetic to that idea, these efforts will go nowhere.

            We are not Europe. Our coalitions come together before the election.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
          44·
          vor 2 Monaten

          Liberals sure seem to be worried people who don’t support Genocide are going to vote for her enough to launch a massive smear campaign.