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Democracy is when you get to choose between voting for genocide and voting for fascism.

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Democracy is when you get to choose between genocide over there OR genocide over there and right here too. Because you know damn well Trumps policy on Israel won’t be any different.

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Sure it will. He’d have US jets running sorties on Palestinian civilians in addition to the aid so he could feel like a Big Boy.

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I mean, he was the first president since Carter to not start a war, so, no, that really wasn’t his act.

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T-shirt. Sell it on Etsy. Profit.

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Capitalism is when your government system slides into fascism but you still need to pay your bills 🤷

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Voting for fascism is also voting for genocide. You’re choices are a little genocide without fascism or a lot of genocide with fascism. I know what I’m choosing.

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How about voting for no genocide?

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Go ahead and vote for an option you know for sure won’t win. I hope it satisfies your vanity.

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From a utilitarian point of view, it probably makes more sense to attempt to minimize suffering rather than opting out of the decision and thereby passively enable greater suffering.

But hey, it’s the trolley problem all over again, and people hate even thinking about that one.

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Kang and Kodos

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Clever, but wrong. You actually get to choose between:

  1. Continuing to give $600 million in annual aid to Gaza and diplomacy to try to get Israel to minimize civilian casualties while they understandably pursue Hamas terrorists, Or,
  2. Fascism and complete disregard for civilian casualties.

Perhaps neither is to your taste, but there are stark differences in the two positions.

Yes, I know, actual rational policy-making is so boring. It is much less satisfying than over-simplified, one-sided memes. But, you know, that’s what adults do. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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