OMG they made real life from the 2019 hit show The boys
The problem is that US politics presents a binary choice. The Democrats are providing military aide to Israel while trying to push a ceasefire and getting Hamas 100% on board with the terms until Netanyahu changed them unilaterally.
Meanwhile, Trump thinks Israel is not genociding hard enough and needs to wipe out the Palestinians faster.
Third options don’t exist in American politics. The lone third party candidate that got any traction campaigned on being more pro-Israel than the other two. It’s the reality on the ground in America.
I’m not voting for a genocider. Im not sure how many more times I have to type this out coming into the election.
It’s very misleading to say democrats are trying to push for a ceasefire, when democrats are all on board for continuing supporting Israel and their genocide against Palestine. And why wouldn’t they when Israel is pretty much a place that allows the United States to continue to have a foothold in West Asia? To add, Biden who is a democrat, has no problem with what Israel has been doing.
The choice is demonstrably not binary. The very fact that many Americans are refusing to vote for genocide is what made the Democrats gesture towards a ceasefire in the first place. If you fall in line and promise Kamala your vote regardless of any action against the genocide, you are telling the Democrats to keep killing Palestinians because that issue is not important enough to sway you. If you make a racket, protest, and tell as many people as possible not to support the genocide, you are actually providing the Dems with a positive case to abandon support for ‘Israel.’
This line of thinking is probably a bit questionable to you, because it’s just not consistent with history (if you are familiar) where American imperialist policy continues despite domestic unrest. We’d like to think that our actions to hold politicians accountable are pushing them towards making the world better. But in reality, as long as capital is the driving force behind American Foreign Policy, any capitulations toward the working class are only temporary compromises to be taken away as soon as possible. Divesting away from participating in elections for bourgeois parties is the ideologically consistent move for communists, because participating in them grants legitimacy to a ‘democratic’ process that is more concerned with absorbing the energy that would go into effecting change, rather than being the vehicle for effecting change. The pressure we exert on the DNC to change course vis a vis ‘Israel’ is only going to cause, at most, a temporary shift in tactics, while maintaining the strategic focus on ethnic cleansing to secure a future for America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier.
Do notice, however, that both analyses give us a very simple prescription: you are, under no circumstances, to vote for a candidate that is giving support to a genocide.
Let me rephrase those first two lines for you
The democrats are providing military aid to an ethnic cleansing and are content to be ‘bullied’ by a power that is massively dependent upon them, despite their base wanting them to stop, implying they do this willingly
Meanwhile, the republicans will probably provide more military aid to the same ethnic cleansing, also willingly
Oh what a massive difference there is between the 2 parties I can scarcely recognize them as of the same universe
The Democrats are providing military aide to Israel while trying to push a ceasefire and getting Hamas 100% on board with the terms
By pushing terms like ‘the ceasefire is not permanent and we will continue to help Pissrael carry out the genocide against you’? Laughable.
Meanwhile, Trump thinks Israel is not genociding hard enough and needs to wipe out the Palestinians faster
The same applies to the USian Dems, so there’s no difference here.
Third options don’t exist in American politics
If we are talking strictly about voting, then you also have the options of not voting or voting third party. You don’t lose anything by doing so, even, considering that both parts of your uniparty share the same policies.
AOC entering her mamita phase in this one
you have been banned from lw/politics comm
They’re going harder too. Banned one of the only ones still posting articles about it from politics because Biden is not helping the genocide and saying so is misinformation
I just blocked linkerbaan and return2whateverthefuck since they’re both cunts. My feed has been much better ever since. I’m pretty sure they’re both paid trolls. r2wetf admitted to only operating in bad faith at least.
Bes D. Marx videoessayable moment
I had a nice little chuckle at how poorly the original aged, assuming it was years old. But nope, of course this shitlib was gonna swallow the boot and go full nazi when the party did
