5 points

“Thank you for your vote. Now leave this country.”

permalink
report
reply
6 points

I get not voting for Harris. Voting for Trump, though? That’s contemptible.

permalink
report
reply
1 point

“Yeah you know she’s proposed a two state solution but Trump has told Israel to finish the job and threatened to deport protestors, so that makes Kamala a really, really bad option.”

Some sort of logic like that I imagine.

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

Do they stupidly think trump will be better?

permalink
report
reply
21 points

Wouldn’t a more effective plan be to vote her in and then have protests, letter writing, strikes, media campaign, etc., to change U.S. policy?

Because with Trump there is no negotiation unless they can buy him, and even that’s not a guarantee.

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

You have to understand that most Arab Americans in Michigan are lower ‘c’ conservative and frustrated the Republicans won’t accept them. Unless the Dems completely abandon Israel to total destruction, they’ll threaten to vote R.

permalink
report
parent
reply
6 points

If that’s true, it’s a terribly shortsighted strategy.

permalink
report
parent
reply
9 points

Exactly

permalink
report
parent
reply
4 points

No, I doubt that they’re stupid. They don’t think that they other guy will be better. However, I also doubt that Sophie Scholl thought that her death alone would stop the Holocaust. Sometimes there’s a moral line that you just can’t cross.

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points

I wish Harris was coming out more strongly, or at all really, against Israel’s genocide. I can’t imagine Trump will do anything substantial to reduce the conflict, certainly not more than Harris will.

I do not understand the Sophie Scholl analogy. Sophie distributed anti-war leaflets, among other things. She did not advocate voting for another party that would likely just continue the war, while also removing other freedoms, into power.

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

The connection that I have in mind is, “doing what’s moral, even if it might harm yourself.”

permalink
report
parent
reply
10 points
*

Voting for trump (or proxy voting for him) is crossing a moral line.

And brings them further from their goal.

Rage voting doesn’t fix anything. It stands to make it worse.

I can’t understand some people’s drive to vote in a tyrant because they’re annoyed by a centrist.

permalink
report
parent
reply
0 points

The hitch is that other people do what’s right according to their own moral reckoning, whether you understand it or not.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Michigan

!michigan@midwest.social

Create post


Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam in braccas mea vide

   🫴

      ✋


Banner photos credits

Community stats

  • 140

    Monthly active users

  • 280

    Posts

  • 848

    Comments

Community moderators