Politics Comm can’t understand why people don’t like Harris running right at every opportunity. Must just be bad actors wanting trump to win cause they’re critical. Or just upset DNC is sprinting right after convention
I thought this thread was going to be about less wrong
I gotta say, I am so fucking angry about the abortion restrictions that the scumbag GOP implemented, that I will vote to keep the republicans out of power no matter what. as much as I hate the democrats, harris, and their genocidal policy in gaza, I also hate the republicans who support the same policies PLUS support murdering women through abortion restrictions.
call me a lib if you want. but I want to punish the republicans for the abortion shit and I have not been able to yet at all so I will not skip the chance to do so.
The Democrats refuse to do any of the obvious things it would take to fix that shit. All you’re doing is rewarding them for genocide.
Abortion bans are terrible. They’re still not as heinous as literal genocide. They’re still easier to solve and fight than genocide, in ways jat are obvious to anyone with a little spine and creativity.
Let’s flip the script a little:
"I gotta say, I am so fucking angry about the genocide that the scumbag Democrats are committing, that I will vote (Republican) to keep the Democrats out of power no matter what. As much as I hate the Republicans, Trump, and their rapist policies in the US, I also hate the Democrats who materially support the same policies PLUS support genociding Palestinians.
Vote PSL, vote Green, or don’t vote at all. If you choose to vote for genocide then you send rhe message that genocide is ok, make yourself complicit, and deserve whatever resulting karmic punishment comes your way.
Have some fucking solidarity. If you hate Republicans that much then find a way to hurt them that doesn’t involve empowering Nazis.
except the difference is that republicans ALSO support the genocide in palestine. making your analogy inaccurate.
I have solidarity with the women who can’t get abortions, and exercise it one way that takes 5 minutes, by voting for the party that can feasibly win and supports abortion rights. there is no viable option in the presidential election to have solidarity with palestinians and with women, unfortunately. I will have to express my solidarity with palestinians outside of the ballot box.
The Democrats also support abortion bans. They had a chance to codify abortion rights under Obama but didn’t. They stood by as Republicans restricted abortion access in many states even before the Dobbs decision. They’ve had control of the presidency since 2021 and haven’t done anything to fix the Supreme Court stacking.
Democrats would rather use abortion as a fundraising cudgel than do anything about it.
Doesn’t sound like you have solidarity with Palestinian women.
In 2007, then Senator Obama told Planned Parenthood signing that law would be “the first thing I’d do as president.”
In April, 2009, the recently inaugurated Obama said that legislation to codify abortion rights into federal law “is not the highest legislative priority.”
The democrats also had the numbers to end the filibuster and do it in the last congress but are evidently unwilling or incapable
the dems are going to do about reproductive rights what they’ve done for the last forty years: jack shit while they fundraise off it. so this just boils down to genocide apologia to me
But brah, it’s totally acceptable to overreact when one candidate doesn’t give us every little fucking thing we want, and MORE. They better cowtow, or I’m gonna keep being mean in comments because that’s useful and productive for reealz.
I’ll totally trash their bullshit because I’m not “working for the man”, dawg. Kamala is just more bullllshiiiit or whatever stupid thing we people say. Palestine on ma dingdong, and JillStein4Prez ✌️💩💩
It was a mistake to look at the comments
I hate this “oh so you want a perfect candidate who gives you everything you want” rhetoric.
- yes obviously that’d be ideal
But
- we live in the belly of the most murderous empire in human history, so I don’t expect it, and the only demand I have, the only one (1) is “don’t commit a genocide.” I hate the rest of the Biden/Harris
platformregime’s likely policies (they don’t want to share a public platform) too, but if I genuinely believed she’d try to stop the genocide I’d hold my nose and voted for her, I’ve (I’m embarrassed to admit in such a cool radical space) done it before several times since I started hating the Dems out of hating the Republicans more, but I cannot in the face of genocide.
but if I genuinely believed she’d try to stop the genocide I’d hold my nose and voted for her, I’ve (I’m embarrassed to admit in such a cool radical space)
That’s nothing to be embarrassed about, if that were a campaign promise (though her being the current VP and the genocide still going on would be fucked in it’s own right) then that’s a real reason to actually , it’s something actionable and would help millions, tangibly by allowing them to live, if ever voting in this hellscape mattered that’s a compelling reason to. I’m sure many of us were ready to vote for Bernie because of his campaign promises and like that campaign, of course we can’t have that, because this democracy is a farce
No I mean like I voted for Biden because the “Look he can’t possibly be worse than Trump, do you really not care about abortion rights?” propaganda got to me even though I found Biden himself despicable (and then he turned around and committed genocide, so much for harm reduction. That’s what I’m kind of ashamed of.
If I genuinely thought Kamala Harris would be Biden term 2 unchanged except working against the genocide instead of for it I’d be browbeating everyone I knew to vote for her.
Sorting by controversial really brings out the bad takes.
