• stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    What if the buttons were (and kinda are) “Palestinian genocide with survivors” or “Palestinian and Ukrainian genocide with no survivors”?

    • archomrade [he/him]OP
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      6 months ago

      If your willing to accept a little genocide in exchange for not having to convince anyone of anything, sure

      Wait actually is this you convincing no-genocide voters that a little genocide is fine? Woa that was slick!

      • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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        6 months ago

        Oh yeah *just *convince the Democrats. Sure thing, I’ll have it done by Tuesday. Honestly I feel stupid for not thinking of just convincing them. Why has no one tried this before? /S

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          6 months ago

          Good luck convincing enough people that a little genocide is fine to win against trump.

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              6 months ago

              Believe me, I’m not rooting for it (or don’t, Idgaf).

              Democrats are more principled than Trump voters though, if one party can survive running on it it’s not the democrats.

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                  6 months ago

                  I don’t want to stop anyone voting against Trump, I just think centrists are expecting an awful lot from a constituency that historically underperformed when enthusiasm is low (spoiler: it’s never been this low)

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        6 months ago

        What is a ‘little genocide’? I thought your whole shtick was that genocide was genocide and ‘less’ is still genocide.

        Are you conceding that there are degrees and less is better than more?

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          6 months ago

          Are you conceding that there’s a choice between convincing people genocide is ok vs convincing democrats it’s not, and you’d prefer the former?

          • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            Voting is the only binary choice. You can do whatever other ‘choices’ you’re babbling about at the same time if you want.

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              6 months ago

              That’s not a terrible idea actually, work it from both ends.

              Unless you care about the substance of the issue, but if not then go nuts.

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                The substance of the issue for me is saving Palestinian lives which is one of the many reasons I’m voting for Biden in 2024.

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                  6 months ago

                  They’re already dying kiddo, you need to do a little more than that.

                  • stanleytweedle@lemmy.world
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                    6 months ago

                    I’m chatting online with a stranger about it though- so we’re both putting in about the same amount of work on the issue ;)

                  • OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works
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                    I for one am doing more than that AND voting. Turns out voting has never impeded me from participating in other forms of activism, isn’t that magical?