• USSMojave@startrek.website
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    3 months ago

    She personally met with those protesters before the rally, then when they later interrupted the rally, she let them have their moment, then when they wouldn’t shut up, that’s when she said that. Those particular protesters had no intention of having any kind of discussion, and it’s quite telling that they only come to Democratic events instead of Republican ones, who are MUCH more hawkish and pro-Israel than Dems and whom a protest against might be more effective, if they actually cared about Palestinians

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      3 months ago

      To be fair they protest Democrats because they have a history of at least listening. The Republicans, not so much.

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      3 months ago

      If they went to the Republican rallies, the Republicans would violently attack them. Trump has repeatedly and explicitly told them to do so. I can’t blame them for not protesting where they know it would land them in the hospital, or worse.

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        So if the democrats violently attacked them they wouldn’t protest?

        Interesting, nuanced even.

        Willing to put the lives of marginalized people in danger with a trump presidency but if their physical well being is threated, genocide away.

        So, here’s the real reason they don’t show to trump rallies. They are under the impression they can influence the Harris campaign into supporting policy that will strong arm Isreal into ending the Palestinian genocide. Is it far fetched? Possibly, but they are desperate.

        Unfortunately, we are all pretty desperate right now. So, the whole weighing human suffering thing is kind of… deaf ears and all that…

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          If Harris and Biden were explicitly telling their supporters to attack protesters, I know I would stop protesting at their events. I dunno about these particular protesters, but I would imagine that sort of hateful rhetoric would certainly have a cooling effect on any hypothetical protests in such a scenario.

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              I personally have to be extremely cautious when protesting. I have a record, and I’m certain that it would be used against me. DUI is the worst thing, but there’s also some weed distribution charges as well. I’m sure they would use that to trump up resisting arrest, or assaulting an officer, if I attended any of the protests where they intend to get arrested.

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                Hey. I’m not judging you at all. All this shits fucked. Even if trump was dead tomorrow, it’s going to stay fucked. You do whats right for you.

                We are so close to this election end I and I’m so interested to see where the discussion goes. I know it’s not going to be good but I can hope.

                What I mean by this is this election we had biden step down. For someone who’s been rallying against biden for 4 years that’s a big deal to me. Is it a fluke? Maybe. What if it wasn’t, tho? What can progressives do with that?

                If Kamala wins can we make her primary in 4 years? I know. A black women getting (almost) unfair treatment compared to all other presidents but whys it gotta be a bad thing? Why should we just let the president toil away?

                If trump wins 2024 best case; revolution. Worse case; north korea comes to the US.

                If Kamala wins best case; we challenge her and she accepts the challenge becoming the most successful president of the last 100 years. Worse case: we fend off trump 4 more years.

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          Possibly, but they are desperate.

          im not sure if its desperation, i think it’s that they’re all just single issue voters, they have literally nothing else in life that they care about.

          I feel like if they were desperate they would probably run disinfo farms or like, fight in the conflict. But what do i know.

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      Many were Palestinians who had lost swaths of their family to Genocide, but you don’t care about that… oh I though we were both making assumptions based on personal opinion.

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        imagine being Palestinian right now.

        having a long and continued squabble over who owns that land that israel sits upon, both israel and palestine being the same fucking thing biblically.

        Britain shows up, goes “fucking lol, this shits mine now losers” and then shits out israel, nearly a century of war goes by, neither side ceding literally anything to the other, except for Palestine because they’re bad at fighting against a well supported and funded military, i wonder why. And then continuing to engage in that conflict until quite literally nothing is left of you as a state or nation.

        and so you show up to america, for whatever reason, you’ve probably lived there most if not all of your life, you see this shit happening, and the US supporting israel, and your first thought is, “surely harassing politicans will fix the problem” or even “man surely if i just call the public genociding nazis, they’ll finally stop killing my people”

        like my brother in christ, go vote.