Me watching a repeat of 2016
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It won't. The Arabs are too angry. Minnesota literally has a Palestinian who lost 42 family members in a single airstrike by Israel and then their governor goes on a VP debate for election and the only thing he can say about the conflict is that he supports Israel's right for expansion.
Yet I still see so many people blaming the voters who want an alternative to genocide, instead of the policies of the administration that give it unconditional military support.
Harris can easily earn so many votes, especially in swing states that she needs to win, with a pivot on Biden's unpopular foreign policy on Israel. This race should not be this close. Trump is a uniquely unpopular candidate, to the extent that even two assassination attempts didn't even move his approval rating.
Yet I still see so many people blaming the voters who want an alternative to genocide
Yes, and I don't care about the opinions of such people any longer. They process the harms being done in the world into a sense of entitlement that everyone should deal with that in the way they do, which is principally by finding a way to rationalise those harms as inevitable.
Too many humans are going to keep killing other living beings, and then putting effort into rationalising how this is a good thing. In my lifetime we are going to see more of anthropogenic climate change killing people, and those who (think they) have profited from such climate change rationalising how 'this is good because...', or 'they deserved it because...'.
In a world where immigrants (like myself) are treated with contempt, people who didn't migrate from countries where climate change is deadly will be laughed at.
Fix that and I will care about political decisions. Until then, I remain unconvinced that pretending that we can maintain a status quo by just pandering to the right-wing enough is of any particular value.
Do you know what's more important than profit? Life. I'd take fewer dead babies over arms merchants making money selling the means to kill more innocent people.
Martin Luther King Jr's speech on Vietnam rang very true when I read it recently. It put me back about how similar today is to nearly 60 years ago.
It is with such activity in mind that the words of the late John F. Kennedy come back to haunt us. Five years ago he said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." Increasingly, by choice or by accident, this is the role our nation has taken, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and the pleasures that come from the immense profits of overseas investments. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin...we must rapidly begin the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.
https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
Yes, and I don't care about the opinions of such people any longer. They process the harms being done in the world into a sense of entitlement that everyone should deal with that in the way they do, which is principally by finding a way to rationalise those harms as inevitable.
I don't think Arabs in America care anymore. This past year has made it very evident US politicians don't actually care about human rights or the lives of Arabs all too much. They're just numb to it all.
he supports Israel’s right for expansion.
Israel seems to expand into areas they don't control, breaking international law. And, while doing so, they bring settler violence (backed by the IDF) against innocent people, including children.
What 'right' is that? Would I have the 'right' to expand into my neighbour's home if I was backed by a large number of people with guns?
I can understand a 'might makes right' sense of morality after societal collapse, because living beings are constrained by an inadequate sense of perception tied to the illusion of an enduring consciousness that prejudices them in favour of their survival. It's concerning that we are practising these skills while society appears to be functioning to some extent, as if many people are excited about living in a post-apocalyptic world and are in training for dealing with it by swapping the lives of strangers for whatever imagined gain they think they will experience.
lol @ "right to defend themselves" somehow turning into "right for expansion" like they could just slip that by and no one would notice.
Minnesota literally has a Palestinian who lost 42 family members in a single airstrike by Israel
Sounds like she should be investigated for having ties to Hamas...
This is either missing a big fat /s and still pretty tone deaf, or the most disgusting thing I've read today
Really hope you're being sarcastic here man.
"Please vote for me! I will do anything but stop supporting genocide of people abroad who share your religion."
Zios are murdering people from a variety of religions.
Harris seriously needs to fire her campaign advisors. There are so many easy things she could do to easily win the presidency but for some reason she refuses to do them.
Taking a stand against genocide is just one of them and is so easy to do. She'd gain 10s of millions of Arab voters plus the 10s of millions of progressive voters she's missing out on right now, and it would probably only cost her a few thousand moderate voters. Those voters probably aren't even in swing states so who cares?
I don't know why Harris is running such a stupid campaign or why she just doesn't do the really easy thing that will absolutely guarantee that she easily wins the white house.
It absolutely blows my mind.
I'm curious if it's because she has taken the Biden campaign advisors on board. Maybe his whole crew thinks like him, and are thus rabid Zionists.
Or maybe they determined that all the critics are in blue places and not swing states, so they don't matter.
There is a chance she can lose Michigan just without Arab Americans vote so what Biden and Harris is doing is just stupid.
Harris is a cop. She believes in putting people in cages. Ofc she supports this genocide.
Harris seriously needs to fire her ~~campaign advisors~~ donors.
She can't fire them because she works for them.
don't know why Harris is running such a stupid campaign or why she just doesn't do the really easy thing that will absolutely guarantee that she easily wins the white house.
It doesn't make sense because you're leaving out half of the equation: money.
There are lots of issues like this that poll overwhelmingly in the opposite direction that Democrats keep moving towards.
They only need 50% +1 of the EC delegates to win the election, anything more eats into their ability to fundraise, as what's good for everyday Americans is bad for capitalists and ideologues. Pandering to voters is good but if they can get you in the booth on the threat of Trump alone then even better. That frees them up to fuck around and do whatever gets the most money out of their donors.
Taking a stand against genocide is just one of them and is so easy to do. She’d gain 10s of millions of Arab voters plus the 10s of millions of progressive voters she’s missing out on right now,
It's too late for this "progressive". I voted for Cornel West yesterday. Before y'all libs attack me, I live in a state where my vote is completely meaningless. Democracy and freedom!!!! \s
No.
Lol what's that one rule where of there's a question in the headline the answer is almost always no?
Betteridge's rule of headlines.
Moreover, Harris often stresses that her support for Israel is “unwavering”. She has been part of an administration that has overseen unconditional support for the brutal war on Gaza, and recently, she welcomed Israeli escalation in Lebanon.
When asked recently what she would have done differently from Biden, Harris said “not a thing that comes to mind”, stressing that she has been part of the decision-making process at the White House on most important issues.
Separate from the moral issue, this just speaks to her being a really poor campaigner. These are softball questions designed to allow her to create daylight with an unpopular president on her terms. Reminds me a lot of how much she fumbled her primary campaign.
But old guy picked her and old guy was old on camera, so I guess she's our best option. Still better than the alternatives, both Biden and Trump, but just sort of sad from a nation of 330M people.
This is why I wanted them to do a primary, I doubt she would have made it past that since there are both really good candidates and also seasoned politicians who would at least campaign much better.
This is why they didn't do a primary.
I think an often overlooked group of Americans are those that just don't give a shit about the middle east. From their perspective it full of assholes led by groups that hurt women and minorities. Religious kooks that are constantly commiting acts of terrorism around the world, and actively regressing year after year. Every attempt to "help" in the area makes everything worse.
I'm from a hugely diverse, well educated, part of the US and growing up the same joke about the middle east was used for the last 40 years. "They should just glass the whole region if they ever want to see peace in the middle east."
It goes without saying everything about that is terrible.
Islamophobia is normalized in America, especially since 9/11. The dehumanization of people in the Middle East is intentional in order to Manufacture Consent for US Foreign Policy in the Region, especially since the Iraq War. Plus the extent of our Military Operations are barely even touched on if at all.
This Genocide in Gaza has been a notable exception, it's difficult for US News Outlets cover the News and paint our Ally Israel in a good light when it's been a year of daily Human Rights Violations done by our Ally with our Unconditional Military Support