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White House says Israel’s latest actions in Rafah do not cross US red line
(www.theguardian.com)
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even if joe wins this time - next time it's gonna be worse - that's why the lib dems nowadays are holding policy views similar to moderate conservatives of the past - like fucking Reagan of all people signed the immigration reform act to give 3 million immigrants legal status - and now we've got joey being hounded by conservatives for trying to do something similar..
don't take this as an excuse to call me a russian/chinese/4chan or w/e else "bot" for trying to get people to think rationally about the trajectory of US politics - fucking vote for biden for all I care - but more importantly - take to the streets, toss a fucking shoe at his head - just don't think you're "doing your part" by voting once every 4 years for the marginally less genocidal power tripping fuckwit - like how can you expect them to do anything if they know you'll vote for them no matter what? how is that any different than the maga zealots?
it's not about one-topic voting - its about the very obvious slow slide into authoritarianism - because nobody is willing to do anything to disrupt the status quo - and frankly it's kind of disgusting to say the more "ethical" choice is letting a proxy state massacre children because the opposition will massacre them more. that's not progress, that's just pretending to wash you hands off the blood you'll never have to experience firsthand...
Taking an absolute stand may be comforting, but it has not and will not actually accomplish anything.
Our existing system is broken. Our current choice is between continuing with it, and trying to influence, or exchanging it for an authoritarian government run by a vindictive child. In the long run there may be other options, but right now you aren't going to get a third choice. One or the other of those outcomes is going to happen.
Trump has said, at various times, that he would enact violence against protesters, have them arrested and held without due process, or have them deported. How effective do you think your efforts to push for more progressive government policies are going to go under those conditions?
Burning it all down sounds good in theory, but nothing happens in a vacuum. If we allow the current system to fail it is not going to be replaced with an idealized new system. It is going to be replaced by whatever existing movement is in a position to assert itself. Right now, that is will be the right-wing authoritarians.
Also by saying the only option in case of systematic collapse is the emergence of right wing authoritarianism what you're implying is that you'd much rather wait for that to happen than to create a left wing environment now that can establish itself in the power vacuum - to me this shows that you have so little faith in yourself that you would much rather do nothing and just let the right wingers trample you over and over - no wonder things keep sliding right when even so called leftists think they're such massive losers.
That's why you should start building an alternative system that isn't right-wing instead of just voting for Hitler^lite - by choosing the lesser of two evils election after election you will always be actively choosing evil - that may be fine for you but it sure isn't fine by me - and saying that any alternative is too idealistic means that you've already given up.
Trump is truly awful but let's not pretend that police haven't arrested students at pro-Palestine encampments without solid grounds under Biden either - sure vote for Biden now to mitigate the biggest calamity that is Trump - but it just signals to the dems that so long as they're a smidge left of neo-Hitler they'll get voted for.
And if you really think Joe will listen to protestors about the genocide after he's in office, that's what I call naïve idealistic thinking....