When you compare Biden to Trump vs. the effects on the Palestinians, were Trump president again, he would not just help the Israelis exterminate the Palestinians, but encourage them to do so quickly- as he’s already told Bibi to “finish it”. So your dichotomy is more than a bit disingenuous .

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geopolitics is no excuse for the things being perpetrated inside but especially outside the us, currently by democrats. if the us made a bad judgment and found itself losing the situation, financing a literal genocide to avoid losing is not a justifiable thing to do here.

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It seems like you’re deliberately diverting away from my point: both sides are bad, but one is orders of magnitude worse than the other. Quashing voter turnout with this doomer rhetoric helps the worse one win. Democrats having problems doesn’t stop Republican problems from being an existential threat to the future of our democracy, and any chance of leftward progress. You do realize this, right?

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the paragraph you are responding to is basically me saying “not orders of magnitude, here is a real world scenario to illustrate”

the tiny minority of us socialists are not capable of swaying public opinion the way you say we do.

if we were at all we would be doing much bigger countrywide striking, not still at convincing other people of anything.

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Yes, orders of magnitude. The only real world scenario that’s relevant (because again, child labor and theocracy are purely Republican initiatives) is Palestine. Biden is trying to reign in Netanyahu within the latitude afforded him by existing, congressionally determined defense agreements and the complex geopolitical landscape of the middle east. Trump loves Netanyahu and thinks he should hurry up with the genocide already. That is orders of magnitude worse.

The tiny minority of socialists aren’t capable of rallying large swaths of the population into countrywide action, this is true. But they can sway a slim minority of non-conservatives to sit out on an already dangerously close race. All they have to do is shave off a percent or two here or there to seal our fate.

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