• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    2 days ago

    That analogy is very flawed and, within the context of Arab voters, crosses the realm of “insensitive” and well into “fucking stupid” territory.

    I’ll start with the “very flawed” part. Harris didn’t promise to “paint the interior an ugly color”, she promised to sit and watch while the ship slowly sunk and maybe open a few small holes. She promised stagnation and yet more rightward shifting to people who are being driven closer and closer to poverty every day. Sure, she was better than Trump, but she still had massive policy and attitude flaws that can’t be called “painting the interior a bad color”.

    Now for the “fucking stupid” part: Harris was promising to do exactly the same things Biden was doing in Palestine. She promised that and still expected—or thought she could do without—Arab votes. Votes from people who were losing loved ones and attending funerals because of the policy she completely unapologetically promised to continue. Comparing killing her voters’ families to “painting the ship a bad color” is, as I said above, fucking stupid.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      That analogy is very flawed

      two choices

      Nope. Binary race. No other contender has a chance.

      promised to sit and watch

      Binary race. Pick between the two.

      she was better than Trump

      Ah! So you get it.

      Harris was promising to do exactly the same things Biden was doing in Palestine

      Ah! So between the two, neither offers a better plan for meddling in another country’s politics. It’s a tough thing when neither choice for America happens to support that one other country. It’s also then not a discerning factor then, in a binary race, when determining the best of two options.

      If you don’t choose, you need to accept what comes down to a coin flip.

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        This is what blew my mind. I thought this was all obvious, and that people understood there was simply no pro-Palestine option on the table.

        Sometimes the available options aren’t what you want, but I also think it better to make non-emotional decisions about candidates where possible.

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        People were making this argument every day before the election and it didn’t work.

        Trump was always worse. But Harris still had to win people’s votes. If this argument worked we would have had Hilary in 2016.

        You need to actually have something to offer beyond the other side being worse.

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        These people are seriously throwing a tantrum because Arab voters didn’t vote for their friends and family to be murdered. This is insane.

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      Allowing Trump to win was “fucking stupid” for anyone that actually cares about this genocide. Accelerating everything for innocent people from the comfort of your western home - all that matters is your virtue signaling.

      If this was a race (which it might me given the state of AI and mass surveillance) you would all immediately smash into a wall thinking the shortest distance is fastest ignoring the reality of the track in front of you. Geopolitics is real.