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As will I, but I will also take every opportunity I have to try and make him be less of a trash person. As difficult of a task as it is.
"I'm going to vote for the guy but do my best to convince others he's trash. Hopefully they still vote for him too!"
So, one should never criticize the party they're supporting? Like the blind Trump followers?
You should probably be focusing on changing your local voting methods in order to allow different candidates rather than working towards disillusioning those who would otherwise not make voting decisions that end up supporting Republicans.
No, not never. But goddamn, pick your moments. Ten months out from an election with trump leading the polls is impressively poor timing.
The best moment for criticism was 2020 in the primaries but the progressive/youth wing of the Democratic coalition feels voting in primaries abhorrent (and loves screeching about hating the party during the general election.)
I don't know if you're old enough to remember how close 2016 and 2020 were but goddamn, elections these days are won on the margins. And if my snarky comments about Biden make one progressive kid sit this election out, that's one too many.
its infuriating because all he has do is setup some shitty arbitrary line Israel already crossed such as barring support/arms sales to countries with high child casualty rates and he doesn't even have to mention Israel to sidestep the whole problem like a coward.
Some people get mad when the US plays world police, some when it doesn't. There is always something to be outraged about.
Personally I don't think a ceasefire is a good idea. Hamas will, again, turn around and commit more atrocities, as will Israel. It's delusional to think they will ever stop. No one in Hamas or the IDF will magically come to their senses.
So, for now I'm just waiting for the end result. Hamas is clearly losing and all we can do is hope something good comes of it.
If you killed my family and destroyed my town to take out Hamas, the first thing I’d do is start Hamas 2. You can’t indiscriminately bomb your way out of terrorism.
The only possible outcome I can imagine where these atrocities make Israelis and Palestinians safer is if the UN Security Council enforces the 1967 borders and the ICC tries the senior leadership of Hamas and Israel for crimes against humanity. The world has to say “Never Again” to these atrocities.
Hamas part 2 or 29, it doesn't matter, because there is no solution. Maybe if cults weren't involved it would be a different story. The UN has no power in changing the outcome.
The best result would be Hamas and the IDF disappearing from the world, but I doubt either of those things will happen.
The latter for obvious reasons, the former because the many orphaned children now have good (and, honestly, legitimate) reason to hate Israel.
I would like Islamic groups participating in terrorism to disappear as well. The whole middle east situation is FUBAR. It needs a clean slate to work with.
Maybe if the US actually pulled out of the middle East everyone would be happy. But they're not; they're actively supporting Israel's genocide.