Comment by blackbelt352@lemmy.world on 'we can't afford to lose voters who support israel's war crimes'

Context clues my guy, when my feed is flooded with Genocide Joe memes because it’s an election year and various interests are trying to dissuade people from voting so Republicans take power, it’s pretty easy to tell what this meme is doing.

You think genocide Joe memes are to dissuade Republicans from voting for Joe Biden? You think someone concerned about genocide would vote for Trump for Biden? What?

It’s about voter disillusionment. Make a big show about Joe Biden sending weapons to Israel equating that action to being the mastermind behind the Israel’s genocidal campaign and distracting from the fact that trump will literally open the floodgates of our weapons stockpile to Israel accelerating tje genocide and get people who begrudgingly vote for biden because he’s the less awful choice to reconsider voting at all.

Do you think maybe this is something beyond just trying to get people to vote for Trump? Maybe people just really hate genocide and don’t like the idea of voting or supporting someone who is okay with it?

Think maybe there are third party options?

Do you think maybe the electoral college and the stupid voting situation in this country has made it so many people have an opportunity to vote third party while their state still goes to Biden??

Listen all I’m trying to say is people have a ton of different reasons to call out Joe for his support of genocide. You immediately defending it makes you and the things you stand for look bad because you’re defending genocide. Just saying

Do you think maybe the electoral college and the stupid voting situation in this country has made it so many people have an opportunity to vote third party while their state still goes to Biden??

Calculating whether you can safely throw your vote away to a third party candidate is a next level strategy.

Yes, thank you! If you were to go through my comment history, you’ll see me arguing for voting for third parties in non-swing States. I also cite that if any of those third parties gets 5% in the vote, they get public funding in the next round as well as a chance to actually contend.

My vote is probably going to end up going for Claudia de La Cruz or Dr. Cornell West. Because I live in a hard blue state that will not change.

Another comment cuz I want to elaborate the problem is the Dems are controlled opposition. They pretend to be leftist and say they want to do the right thing but they never do. They’re always a couple votes short or just somebody turned on them or something always goes wrong. Obamacare was even a right-wing idea that came out of the heritage foundation. That’s why it sucks.

So solution we need an actual left-wing party. How do we do that without majorly screwing ourselves?

The only way I can think of outside of a violent revolution is slowly gaining control of a third party election after election to the point where it’s a viable contender and can win.

The only alternatives are violent revolution and continuing to pick the lesser of two evils and continuing to have the most important election of our lifetime so far every election. We need to do better. We need to organize.

Being complacent with where we are, especially with enabling genocide will only put us on the chopping block eventually.

I’m defending genocide by pointing out Republicans will accelerate the genocide if they win by people deciding not to vote?

Yes.

If anytime someone brings up how the current political establishment are aiding and abetting genocide and that’s a bad thing and you immediately start defending them. You are defending genocide. 🤷

That’s why I asked who said anything about voting for Trump. I’d shoot myself in the head before I did that. You know when I’m not going to do pretend like genocide Joe’s not a f****** genocide enabler. Cuz I don’t defend genocide or people who help commit them. You should try it real easy.

Read what I’m saying, this kind of messaging not about convincing people to vote for trump, it’s about convincing people not to vote at all. Which always helps Republicans, and if they win, will 1000% accelerate the ongoing genocide. Doing nothing lets evil men get away with anything. And right now, for me, it’s about damage minimization and maintaining pressure to reverse the policy.

So no I’m not endorsing genocide by saying that trump getting into office will absolutely make the situation worse.

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