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Why are so many Pro-Palestine (I am pro-Palestine and anti-genocide) Americans refusing to vote for Harris due to her stance on Israel? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As the title states I am confused on this matter. The way I see it, the USA has a two party system and in the next few weeks they’re either going to have Trump or Harris as president, come inauguration day. With this in mind doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

Giving your vote to an independent or worse not voting at all, just gives more of a chance for Trump to win the election and then who knows what crazy stuff he will allow, or encourage, Israel to get away with.

I really don’t get the logic. As sure nobody wants to vote for a party allowing these heinous crimes to be committed, but given you’re getting one of them shouldn’t you be voting for the one that will be the least horrible of the two.

Please don’t come at me with pro-Israeli rhetoric as this isn’t the post for that, I’m asking about why people would make such choices and I’m not up for debate on the Middle East, on this post, you can DM me for that.

Edit: Bedtime here now so will respond to incoming comments in the morning, love starting the day with an inbox full 😊.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

I honestly appreciate the downvotes as a counter of angry people shamed into silence

Good. You should be fucking ashamed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Yeah, you're misreading that.

[–] Mechaguana 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah the "democrats are the REAL nazis" is tiring when you get comments from the republican hero agent Orange: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Shut the fuck up. I never said the republicans weren't nazis. I'm just fucking sick of you being an out and open nazi and acting like you fucking aren't.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Their tiny liberal brains can't handle anything that isn't a binary choice.

They have fully accepted, absorbed and now spout George W Bush's slogan of "You're either with us or with the terrorists" without any irony that they are the terrorists!

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

“Everyone I don’t like is a nazi”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

I like everyone but nazis

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Everyone on the side of genocide can be called a Nazi, yes.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not voting democrat because I “support genocide”, I’m voting democrat because if Trump gets elected, shit is about to get a WHOLE lot worse. It is damage control

You can keep sitting here and acting like a fucking child throwing a temper tantrum because you don’t like the reality of our only choices, but you are being just that. A child.

You can sit on the sidelines on your little soapbox and virtue signal all you want, but when Trump wins I won’t be blaming the republicans. I’ll be blaming all of you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You let your mask slip by calling opposing genocide "virtue signalling". You're a bad person and a bad advocate for the democrats.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Whatever you say, buddy. Do something of value instead of sitting here bitching at regular people just trying to survive (aka virtue signaling)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Genocide is a necessary but not sufficient condition for nazism.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Okay, I'm still gonna call them nazis