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How can I join the resistance ? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd say its more complicated than that but yeah absolutely that administration didn't try to stop it, it clearly wasn't their goal in the slightest. They did very little (though even that very little was more than the trump administration has ever done or tried to) but I'm not gonna act like Kamala Harris would have been like the fuckin savior of Gaza cause that's just false.

However, if Harris had won the election, we would:

not have people sent to concentration camps in El Salvador
not have a concentration camp in the Everglades
not have the mass militarization of ICE
not hace the total loss of due process for immigration cases and people being kidnapped by federal officers off the street
not have millions of people losing Medicaid
not have the national guard marching on the streets of DC
not have Texas gerrymandering 5 seats in the middle of the term at the president's request
not have the CDC, HHS, and millions of dollars in funding for research gutted
not have environmental programs and research gutted
not have a convicted rapist in the oval office
not have students deported for protesting
there's like dozens more things that I could list tbh
still have a genocide in gaza

I totally understand why people were really upset about that last point. I was/am too. But I have a few thoughts:

If you thought Trump would have been better for gazans than Harris, you're a fucking idiot.
If you think those two were equally bad because of that single issue, then you're a fucking idiot.
If you didn't vote to make a point about how we need something better than those two options, you contributed far more towards Trump's victory than you did to making that point, especially since the democratic party is full of imbeciles who will see your missing vote and interpret it as meaning they need to become more "moderate."

[–] m532@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Yes. 1. Strawman 2. Zionazi 3. No.

[–] OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm sure the people getting deported to concentration camps and losing their healthcare will understand that you not voting was just to save the children in gaza (oh wait, they're dying anyway)

Edit: also are you genuinely claiming that Harris would have done all of those things that I listed? Every single one of them? Be so for real. If that's actually where your head is at you are so unbelievably out of touch I think you're beyond saving.