How many dead Palestinian kids will it take for you to change your vote?

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    Congratulations on succesfully creating a lemmitor honeypot, Mr. Mayor rat-salute-2
    This feat has become increasingly difficult as the libs have sealed themselves off in their echo-chambers.
    Good heavens, would you look at the time? what-time-is-it

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    They’ve explicitly told us it’s perfectly fine to sacrifice entire demographic groups for the sake of poltical expediency

    What the libs have done is create an avenue of least resistance, where the party elites correctly understand they’re free to condemn whole demographics to death to purchase the poltical loyalty of others

    This is quite literally the death of solidarity and labor organizing in the United States and there’s no coming back from that

    Today it’s Palestinians and immigrants, tomorrow it’s native americans and trans people and on and on until they reach the one demographic they’ve always wanted to dump and destroy; the black working class

    This is how fascism in America truly comes about, and so many have already failed what even five years ago would’ve been called the easiest test imaginable

    The dems normalized genocide, it’s Joever folks, this is what unplugging the life support of a left tradition looks like

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      If you tolerate this your children will be next by the manic street preachers.

      If they’ll do it to Palestinians they’ll do it to anyone who gets in the way. And it’s blood in blood out. The Libs have given their consent to any act of savagery, any crimen any abomination. They can’t retract that now. They can’t say “this is too far, this is too much.” They signed on the line in blood. They gave their entire soul over to evil.

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      It’s also truly incredible how no one can also see the mass extinguishing of the proletariat happening as more and more wealth is stolen by the bourgeois as they go all in on AI in hopes that enough people will be numbed by the unregulated spread of information and be kept in their digital bubble while the world burns, people die, and more people end up without a job.

      But 2029 is the most important election of our lives!

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    My sister who’s literal job is human rights law just told me I am selfish because as a dude my rights are not harmed in the US by Trump so I am “allowed” to favor the rights of Palestinians. Absolute ghoul. I think it really bothers her that we tacitly agree on most everything, but I am willing to stand by my values.

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      It’s frightening how immediately hostile people become when they encounter someone who actually has principles and beliefs. The sudden aggression and attempts at coercion are always shocking.

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        They tell themselves that whatever they do is correct, it is the most anyone could be asked to do. And so those of us who challenge that make them confront the fact that they are cowards, that they are complicit

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        Newacctidk’s sister is right. One can have principles and still live in the real world. Dooming the Palestinians AND hundreds of other groups is called being callous, not principled.

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          Y’all lesser eviled yourselves in to genocide. I didn’t condemn anyone. Democrats did. I’ve been trying to fight this shit my entire adult life. I’ve been fighting for decades. I’ve seen the loathing, the contempt, the hate in the eyes of nice, boring, middle income, fascist democrats. I always saw what you are but I didn’t understand what I was seeing. I won’t take the last step in to hell with you. I tried to stop this. You’re on your own. God damn you all.

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          Dooming the Palestinians guarantees the doom of the other groups you dumb fuck, are you seriously under the delusion that state institutions once wedded to the industrial mechanisms of genocide will simply set those tools aside because what? They just really, really, really, didn’t like Palestinians and that’s all?

          The population control techniques of Israeli fascism are already in the text books of US law enforcement agencies, Israeli AI software that selects civilian families for slaughter will and have already been sold to the US military, the “right” of the US National Guard to mow down civilians has already been enshrined by executive order, IOF soldiers are literally stalking US campuses to dox and threaten any students who speak up…just where the fuck do you think this leading to

          You’re literally as delusional as a German in 1934 telling this friends that Hitler “will stop at the Jews, I promise” lmao get a fuckin grip you quisling

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            You’re literally as delusional as a German in 1934 telling this friends that Hitler “will stop at the Jews, I promise” lmao get a fuckin grip you quisling

            Many jewish people believed they would be left alone because they held prestiguous or important jobs.

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              The concentration camp was never the normal condition for the average gentile German. Unless one were Jewish, or poor and unemployed, or of active leftist persuasion or otherwise openly anti-Nazi, Germany from 1933 until well into the war was not a nightmarish place. All the “good Germans” had to do was obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, avoid any sign of political heterodoxy, and look the other way when unions were busted and troublesome people disappeared.

              Since many “middle Americans” already obey the law, pay their taxes, give their sons to the army, are themselves distrustful of political heterodoxy, and applaud when unions are broken and troublesome people are disposed of, they probably could live without too much personal torment in a fascist state — some of them certainly seem eager to do so.

              - Michael Parenti. (1996). Fascism in a Pinstriped Suit

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            So you will doom them to even greater suffering for the benefit of whom?

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              The IOF disguised soldiers as doctors so they could attack a hospital and execute three men they “declared” to be Hamas. They were wounded and in the hospital to receive medical care. It’s hard to count the number of warcrimes the zionist entity commited just in that instance. Kamala has done nothing but state she will increase support. Israel gets support for committing warcrimes like using white phosporous - against civilians no less. Israel often bombs schools and hospitals.

              Here’s some facts about white phosphorous

              • It can burn even under water
              • It is ignited by contact with oxygen
              • White phosphorus reaches temperatures of 1,472 °F/800 °C. For comparison aluminum melts at 1,220 °F/660 °C
              • It causes deep and severe burns. It will penetrate through bone.
              • White phosphorus particles that have penetrated the skin, for example on shrapnel, starts to burn when the wound is opened and exposed to air. Your wounds will emanate with white and yellowish smoke. It will smell like garlic.
              • When it is on you, all you can do to smother the flame is to deprive it of oxygen. As soon as oxygen is reintroduced it will reignite. This means there is functionally no way of stopping it from burning you when it is on you.
              • Unless specialised personnel is present there’s not much more to do than remove you from the place with white phosporous and hope there’s not enough to burn you to death.
              • It sticks to you.
              • The smoke is toxic.
              • Inhalation of the smoke will make your throat scratchy. You will begin to cough. You will get headaches. Anything more than a brief inhalation and you will develop a lung oedema later on.
              • White phosporous is toxic in itself. Ingesting it (like if it is on a massive wound burned on you by white phosporous and it gets into your bloodstream) will lead to a litany of deadly malaises.
              • After it is used on you, libs will handwring about wether or not it was actually a war crime.

              But Trump would be worse so all this is fine. I’m sure the concentration camps and mass graves would be worse under Trump because he’d tweet about them or something.

              CW: SV

              Trump would have even more palestinians systematically (be forced to engage in sexual relations) with dogs

              Edit: This song is about you We didn’t know

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              Harris’s goal is the extermination of every Palestinian in Gaza. She’s going to end the suffering of Palestinians one Palestinian at a time until there are no Palestinians.

              Liberals have spent a decade screaming at me about Uighur genocide, Ukraine genocide, Poland genocide, all sorts of Soviet genocide. I did a lot of reading. I know more than you. I know what is going to happen. I know how and why each action taken by the dog of NATO is being taken. I understand the kayfabe they’re performing, using Bibi to soak up the hatred while they implement their final solution to the Palestinian question.

              You Democrats could stop this. There are tens of millions of you. Many thousands who have access. A few dozen knives could bring this to an end in an evening. You could stop this and you won’t.

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              THEY ARE BEING PUT IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND BOMBED TO DEATH WHAT THE FUCK COULD MAKE IT WORSE, YOU FLAT ASS

              My god please fucking just… Think. Goddammit, just say you don’t give a fuck about brown people, at least be honest. There’s no difference between republicans and democrats but at least the republicans have the decency not to tell the most bold faced lies.
              Just say you’re racist, just say you want them to die. We can drop this charade. This whole pretending isn’t fooling anyone

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              uhh well they would suffer…uh…MORE! from the white phosphorous andremoved camps if orange man was the one giving his support!

              You are nearly fully nazified

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              I have not doomed anyone. The current administration has doomed hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of Palestinians.

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              The only groups that are dooming the Palestinians are the ones that you are in support of. You liberals at some point really need to unlock the ability to think critically and do some fucking reading about what your country does at international level, which don’t worry I know it will never happen.

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              What greater suffering you fucking buffoon? What can Trump even do worse you stupid spineless piece of fucking shit?

              Absolutely evil fucking moron, let me guess “he’s gonna let them use nukes” right?

              THAT’S NOT HOW NUKES OR GENOCIDE WORK YOU BRAINLESS GENOCIDAL GODDAMNED DEMON

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          Yes I’m certain Kamala “the law is the law” Harris will do all she can to help the many people she’s deported, just as soon as she’s confirmed in her belief that there is no consequence for committing a genocide.
          Surely voting for someone committing a genocide will only have the best of results for other marginalised groups she’s already shown she has, at the very best, a neutral attitude towards.
          Hey fuckface: The Dems are also persecuting those groups. The Dems were the ones that THIS YEAR cracked down on student protesters, yet I am to believe that they will somehow “protect democracy”? Literally insane. Actual doublethink.

          Now here’s also a novel concept: You do not support palestinians if you are murdering them. Saying you do something actually means fuck all. Thoughts and prayers might make you feel good, but that doesn’t stop the children from being burned alive.

          If I find out who you are and meet you, then I will stab you. This is an actionable threat.

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            If there was a progressive candidate with a chance to win, I wouldn’t vote for Harris. I’m well aware the system doesn’t allow for that; the system needs to be changed. Yet, this instance’s accelerationist fever dream of hoping for a rapture-like revolution once things get bad enough is not an effective means of accomplishing your noble goals.

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              Yet, this instance’s accelerationist fever dream of hoping for a rapture-like revolution once things get bad enough is not an effective means of accomplishing your noble goals.

              made-it-the-fuck-up

              I don’t expect there to be a real revolution in amerikkka I expect this country to fracture into a civil war and get a taste of what it’s been doing to the rest of the world, maybe a real revolution can emerge out of that but that remains to be seen

              The only electoralism worth engaging in is local because that’s where we can build a larger movement and actually exercise some degree of power if we manage to win

              I just spent the last 3 hours standing at a protest against the genocide, while there I signed a petition to make our local power company state owned which was put forward by my state assembly representative (literally the only Democrat I’m voting for) who managed to win her primary against her DNC and AIPAC backed challenger

              What have you done today? Anything besides scolding some communists who hate you and will literally never vote of Holocaust Harris no matter what you say? Didn’t think so

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              He didn’t ask about hypothetical alternative candidates, they asked what principle you hold that would prevent you from voting for her - i.e, what action would Kamala Harris have to take to make you feel she was as bad as or worse than Trump? Would you support her if she nuked Iran? France? Minnesota? If she had immigrants shot? Your family? Would you still vote for Kamala Harris in the upcoming election against Donald Trump if she personally executed your family?

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          A simpler rephrasing of this sentiment is “We must murder every Palestinian to prevent the death of vulnerable groups here.” How is this an acceptable position to you? Even if it was completely fruitless I would prefer to stand against the slaughter of an entire people than partake in the system perpetuating it, I can’t in good conscience do otherwise. We can do more than vote.

          • Palestinian people: famously not known for living in a “real world” where there are life and death consequences to abstract political policy decisions.

            Average lemmittor: very well versed in how serious adult life can be, brunch conversationalist, and RBG themed funkopop afficionado.

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          I love how you settlers keep trying to position yourselves next to the Palestinians like you or anyone like you has jack-shit to lose in comparison to people literally getting bombed back to the fucking Stone Age rn. That’s truly the funniest thing-- and by ‘funniest’, I mean ‘physically sickening’. Please die screaming, you actual fucking ghoul. May like visit like. May you reap all your hateful, venomous, genocidal culture has sown.

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          A large flaw in Hexbear’s dialogue is that it does not regard outsiders ignorance. Hexbear is mostly an insider group where established axioms and knowledge are shared as common knowledge, and therefore not entirely elaborated. It isn’t a substitute for dialogue, but becomes an echo chamber - fine in its own right - and stifles understanding of right and wrong to “vibes”.

          We should know, intellectually and not only emotionally, why your assumption and the human rights attorney’s assumption are flawed.

          Your assumption should lead to a question rather than a definitive conclusion. The question should be : How do persecuted groups in the US going to suffer under Biden & Harris?

          Of course, the entire premise is that voting is the most important and sometimes sole act of political agency that can actually change the politics of the state. Ask yourself, is that true? Has not foreign and domestic policy remained consistent among administrations and Congresses in its degradation of quality of American life for the past 50 years?

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            A large flaw in Hexbear’s dialogue is that it does not regard outsiders ignorance.

            I don’t know about others, but I am aware of it. I actively disregard it. I wouldn’t call it a flaw, but a feature.

            Hexbear is mostly an insider group where established axioms and knowledge are shared as common knowledge, and therefore not entirely elaborated.

            Honestly I disagree. Hexbear is in my experience most often a mirror. I’ve seen plenty of people ask genuine questions and get genuine answers. The venomous hostility comes out in response to venomous smugness.

            It isn’t a substitute for dialogue, but becomes an echo chamber - fine in its own right - and stifles understanding of right and wrong to “vibes”.

            I don’t really see hexbear as an echo chamber. We get plenty of smuglords chiming in with the same takes daily. Apart from that there is lively discussion and varied analysis of world events and political agendas. Not to mention how we’re all mired in capitalist propaganda everywhere else.
            I see people disagree all the time, I see lib takes often and those takes only get treated harshly when they’re posted in condescention. Looking thru this thread it’s not like the Kamala-people are being civil, so why should I?
            I’ve seen hexbear users say they’ll vote for Kamala and I’ve seen civil discussion with them - That was before her stance on genocide became clear. Now there is immediate hostility (specifically to the concept of voting for Kamala or Trump) because that is implicitly stating that the person is supportive of the palestinian genocide. At that point idgaf about how civil they were about it, they’re literally arguing for genocide.

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              I don’t know about others, but I am aware of it. I actively disregard it. I wouldn’t call it a flaw, but a feature.

              Same. It’s refreshing to be able to stab someone directly in the ignorance and twist the knife knowing that they’re both expected to understand the arena they’ve walked in to and that there are countless thousands of pages of analysis and discussion that have built up here over the years if they want to learn anything. No Hanlon’s Razor bullshit, no ritualized civility, but also not the performative cruetly of 4chan. A bad question asked in good faith can be answered in good faith. An ignorant person who is willing to consider new ideas, to learn, can be helped.

              But trolls and fanatics? Flay them.

              I think we do echo chamber with dope ass bear characteristics at times, but also the Overton Window here is far to the left of what is considered sane and acceptable in Western Politics, and as a result many ideas that would be acceptable in “I’m as left as they come but” spaces are met with razors and lemon juice here.

              And there’s also a strong defensive reflex built up from being basically political pariahs in wider society. When everyone in your real life thinks you’re morally equivalent to a Nazi because they think you support a bunch of genocides and repressions that mostly didn’t happen having someone come in to the only anti-tankie mine free space in the Western internet saying lib shit tends to trigger everyone’s fight response.

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                I think we do echo chamber with dope ass bear characteristics at times, but also the Overton Window here is far to the left of what is considered sane and acceptable in Western Politics

                ohoho au contraire my dear pal, for you see, you have stumbled upon my rhetorical trap! heheehhe, you see by disagreeing with me on this point, you have proven my point that this is not an echo chamber spontaneusly grows a fancy and somehow already waxed moustache which I then begin to twirl you have been duped by… The Rhetoritician! Eeeeheheheheeheehe

                No but you’re right. I just wanted to push against the idea we’re somehow more of an echo chamber than anywhere else. It’s not like lemmy.world isn’t just a big box of libs patting each other on the back. This place was really bad before federation, so much self-congratulatory posting about not being reddit and pointless struggle sessions.

                as a result many ideas that would be acceptable in “I’m as left as they come but” spaces are met with razors and lemon juice here.

                You made me (fondly) remember the lib who cried about me telling them they’d get the shit kicked out of them if they were in my org for trivializing genocide and doing all the classic lib condescention.

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                  ohoho au contraire my dear pal, for you see, you have stumbled upon my rhetorical trap! heheehhe, you see by disagreeing with me on this point, you have proven my point that this is not an echo chamber spontaneusly grows a fancy and somehow already waxed moustache which I then begin to twirl you have been duped by… The Rhetoritician! Eeeeheheheheeheehe

                  The Rhetoritician would with zero irony make a great character for a post-dirtbag left pod and/or stage production. Especially if every once in a while Plato (was Plato the guy who hated rhetoric?) Would swing in on a rope and start a wrestling match.

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              I suppose sometimes elaboration is something I seek in Hexbear comments and posts. Otherwise we talk in cliches and phrases rather than elaborated thoughts; though my experience may not be the empirical reality of genuine intellectual exchange, understanding, and catharsis here on this site.

              As in this example, liberals tend to present the trolley problem but we already know that these groups are slated for danger and disintegration because the ruling class has decided this to be normal. The trolley is multi-track drifting, the rails converge and destroy those groups inevitably and the only remedy is to stop the momentum of the train.

              I was referring to the axiom and common knowledge being relied on to communicate with one another, the way friends or colleagues with similar politics and world views use short cut phrases and conversation to recycle and communicate interpretations and understandings of history and current events.

              So to an outsider it comes off as vague and esoteric, even to those who come in good faith, or share our politics but are unfamiliar with the culture. In other words, my experience on some posts is the same phenomenon of trying to interpret a Blackmoldfuture post; an opening statement that looks like it belongs in the middle of an essay or conversation.

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            A large flaw in Hexbear’s dialogue is that it does not regard outsiders ignorance

            Yeah when it comes to Marx or capitalist esoterica, but not anti-genocide or anti-fascist rhetoric, on those topics we sound no different from TikToks with a million and one likes, or old reddit before the purge, shit I’ve seen “Hexbear” in Youtube comment sections dating back all the way to the first yellow parenti or grainy Chomsky vids

            The problem isn’t our “dialogue” the problem is that we’re latched to the hip with a dollar store version of 4chan made up of uniquely uneducated people who thought post-2020 reddit was too “woke”, and we as a forum have a bad case of denial about it, because frankly it’s a little embarrassing in terms of association

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              The problem isn’t our “dialogue” the problem is that we’re latched to the hip with a dollar store version of 4chan made up of uniquely uneducated people who thought post-2020 reddit was too “woke”, and we as a forum have a bad case of denial about it, because frankly it’s a little embarrassing in terms of association

              Yeah, that’s a better way to put it. I was trying to be diplomatic but the topic at hand is too far severe to give anyone the benefit of the doubt.

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      Ask her why biden-troll , in power right now, with expanded executive powers thanks to the Supreme Court, hasn’t done a damn thing to help on this issue? It’s so fucking dumb these people pretend they are powerless when they get elected. And so many people keep falling for it football-lucy

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    First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

    First time a tragedy, second time a farce. My mom has been sending me these pre-written harangues to vote for Bomb-ala and this is all I can think of. The Democrats have already thrown Palestine under the bus. They have already thrown the people, families, and children at the southern border under the bus. Do you honestly think they are going to care about queers when it’s no longer expedient? Seriously?

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    I’m not going to pick arguments over votes in the presidential election, I’d be better off trying to bail out the high tide.

    If voting isn’t worth a whole lot, it’s not worth arguing with a liberal and making them double down, because that’s all that’s going to come of it.

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    I would love to be able to send out a Kamala jab to people in my life and have them laugh along instead of distancing themselves from me lololol

    Why do people take this shit so seriously deeper-sadness

    Leftists have as much credibility where if you don’t like Kamala where I live, you’re basically certified MAGA