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[Video] Bernie Sanders refuses to say Israel is committing genocide when pushed on it by CNN (files.catbox.moe)
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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I'm afraid to vote for who I want to, like I'm afraid to not pay my taxes, or afraid to dive 60mph in a residential neighborhood. Does make it a dictatorship? I think the paramilitary abducting people off the streets and deporting them without due process is more of a bellwether for dictatorship than the fact that our system of voting - FPTP - means that you have to vote strategically if you don't want the worst outcome.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    There is no strategic vote when both parties are committing genocide. Who cares about neighbour kidnapping. It has been full on Holocaust since Biden. And both parties are on board.

    FPTP only works as long as Democrats believe they can win without appealing to progressives. If they rather lose to Trump than be progressive that tells you enough about the Democrats either way.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Who cares about neighbour kidnapping.

    Probably all those people who voted. And now, as a consequence, we still have genocide and also deportation of anybody who isn't white, normalization of violence against minorities, and a convicted felon and molester for president.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    And now Democrats are finally coming around to an arms embargo on Israel win back voters.

    There is a second way to get politicians to listen in a two party system when they both refuse to provide your needs: calling their bluff and not voting for either until your minimum demands are met.

    Sadly Democrats chose to lose the election first despite knowing their horrible polling numbers on it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I mean, you're not wrong. I don't think it's as simple, and again it's because of AIPAC. Money greatly influences elections in the US, and AIPAC has a bunch of it, while the anti-genocide group coughed up relatively none. Politicians are going to be scared of AIPAC threatening to throw all their money into their opponent's war chests. It's a kind of "hate the game, not the player" situation, except that I don't really believe that slogan: politicians should have stronger ethics. But when it comes down to brass tacks, and you believe that you're going to sacrifice a seat to Republicans by digging in your heels on Gaza because a well-funded special interest group is going to side with your opponent, it's not a black and white decision.

    It should be. It should be more simple, but it won't be as long as money plays such an outsized role in politics.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago

    DNC Democrats are finding themselves left in the dust in place for progressive alternatives.

    Fossil DemocRepublicans are less popular than ever before. They capitulated to Trump the second he was chosen. Only now everyone realizes this can no longer continue.

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