“We recognize that, in the next four years, our decision may cause us to have an even more difficult time. But we believe that this will give us a chance to recalibrate, and the Democrats will have to consider whether they want our votes or not.”

That’s gotta be one of the strangest reasonings I’ve heard in a while.

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    Maybe… Just maybe, don’t threaten to throw the whole country, including yourself, under the bus just because you can’t completely change a country’s position they’d had for over 50 years in 2 months.

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      I’m likely voting for Joe Biden. But I’m not an Arab or Muslim. I’m a Jewish guy who can see how fucked it is to have to vote for a guy that doesn’t believe how many Palestinians were killed or is actively throwing gobs of cash to the country that is indiscriminately bombing friends, family, people who are the same religion, who are the same race. I’m not in a position to judge. Keyboard warriors such as yourself are.

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        I’m a trans, jewish, atheist, social democrat. I’m on the chopping block as much as you or anyone else if Trump wins in 2024. I’m going to be warrioring my keyboard up all of your asses if it means more people vote for Biden. Under a fascist dictatorship, I could very well be too dead to hear your judgments so keep them coming.

        Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza strip against Palestinians. That doesn’t mean I’m going to go easy on people who inadvertently enable ethnic cleansing and genocide here in the US. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Our imperfect democracy is the best tool we have to enact positive change. Once it’s gone, typing about it won’t bring it back. So I’m going to type about it for as long as I can.

        We have until November 5th, 2024 to convince people to vote against fascism. That means pointing out abstaining from voting or voting third party helps Trump and the fascists. A fascist takeover doesn’t benefit the Palestinians in the short term and it doesn’t benefit them in the long term. Biden is a hard pill to swallow, and we are going to have to remember that when we try to sell people on him, but silence in the face of fascism is death. edit: typo