I see that my boy Bernie Sanders boycotted his speech, a true Mensch. Is there a list of everyone who showed up and clapped? I know people are ragging on john fetterman for wearing a suit, but he’s actually just abiding by new senate rules that enforces a dress code. I’m more upset that he showed up and fucking clapped for this war criminal. But who else? Do we have a list?
It’s a shorter list of those who didn’t clap…all the Rs clapped some of the Ds may not have.
Rashida Tlaib held up a sign saying Bibi was guilty of genocide.
Eight comments atm, per lemmy dashboard. I have all of them blocked apparently, as it shows as “blank”.
I often see this happen, where a post says there are several comments but there are none when I click through, and I very seldom block users so there must be another cause.
I would guess that it’s an activity pub thing where the comments haven’t actually synched to your instance yet
Don’t need to wait to study the history of genocide, it happened again a few days ago… 11 children in a playground.
Horrible, but not a genocide. Still, really really horrible and those that call them freedom fighters are delusional
US voters think that the choices are Trump or Biden and that a little genocide with Biden is better than more genocide with Trump and have been calling the genocide a single-issue that should not go into people’s decisions this November at the ballot box
not going to lie intentionally have been skipping over news about the situation because it so sickening and know powerless to do anything
reading this article was very disheartening
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It’s a two party system. You can either vote for the person who advocates for more genocide or the person (not Biden, just FYI) who is looking at active de-escalation.
It’s America, there are only two choices. If you refuse to chose less genocide you’re furthering the deaths of Palestinians.
You need to be an adult - sometimes there’s no nice option… sometimes the choice is between shitty and even shittier. Be the person that makes the world a less awful place.
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Noted.
I’ll make sure to report comments that are misinformation, trolling, or bad faith.
thanks for proving my point
in the US the biggest perpetuated piece of propaganda myth is that we have only two options and we will never rise above the shitty choices so pick the one that smells better
obviously with that mindset nothing will ever change
elites have won for now
They’ve won forever if you check out. Use your vote to move the needle just a bit - waiting for a perfect solution means things get worse.
“But if we don’t vote, the bad guys will take over!” Scaring people into voting is no way to create change nor prevent disaster but rather glosses over deeper problems of the political system that voting doesn’t address. However, for those who truly believe some politician is not as bad as the other one, it’s not that I disagree. Despite my many grumblings, I don’t insist that voting is entirely futile, just that it’s mostly so. If you think it’s worth the minuscule effort, go for it and don’t feel bad about it. I’m just critical of the widespread belief that voting will have more of a positive effect than a normal effort-to-reward calculus would indicate. The degree that voting is overvalued as a form of political engagement is the degree it displaces other more effective forms and forestalls social change. source
Republicans lose when more people vote.
Source: Mitch McConnell:
This is why they are soooo focused on voter suppression, and not coincidentally why the /c/politics branding is pro-voting.
You simplify the statement to “if we don’t vote, the bad guys win” but that is absolutely true. They don’t want you to vote. They want as few people as possible voting. If you don’t vote, they win.
Given the current electoral system it isn’t a myth - it’s how we ended up with Woodrow Wilson after all.
I’d love to see us break out of it too but the voting system needs to change before we can seriously consider a third party option.
America was basically the alpha release of Democracy and it has an absolutely broken electoral system - ideally the president wouldn’t even be elected and we’d only have one branch of congress but we’re working within the boundaries of what we have and if you choose to help get Trump elected that’s fucking on you.
US was the beta system at best, based on Greek/Roman democracy including the slavery!
Jill Stein had 1/3 the popular votes of libertarian Gary Johnson in 2016. They both had the same number of EC votes.
At 3.3% of the popular vote, Johnson did better than any third party candidate since '96. Maybe if you close your eyes and wish really hard you could get a libertarian to claim a single EC vote.
There are only two choices that win Presidential elections. Everyone else is “Vermin Supreme” at 0 to 5% of the vote.
US voters think that the choices are Trump or Biden
If you don’t think this then you’ve been paying zero attention.
Edit: yes I know it will be Harris not Biden. I read this more as R vs D which is the state of elections in the country
Most of us think it’s Trump or Harris at this point.
I mean , yes, obviously
Sorry, it was directed more at OP than you.
You do know Biden is no longer a choice, right?
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