• BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    “yalls”

    And it’s impossible to read this comment without concluding that you simply don’t see Palestinians as fully human.

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      Genuinely curious how you came to that conclusion? Whether you vote democrat or republican, both would have continued to support the genocide against the Palestinian people. That’s undeniable.

      But how is pointing out that the Democratic Party at least wouldn’t actively try to destroy LGBT/women/minories’ rights mean that OP doesn’t care about the genocide?

      Choosing a lesser evil means there is less evil. What other choice to we have besides continuing to protest and using our meager wages to help fund aid for Palestine? Wtf else is the OP supposed to do to prove they care about Palestinians in your eyes?

      I have so many queer friends, and I am dating a trans person. I know so many immigrants — I am one. Wtf are we supposed to do? Why shouldn’t I be mad people chose to do nothing and keep their honor over the lives of my friends and family, and minorities?

      Option A: “this button will kill people.” Option B: “this button will kill people, and also your friends and family.”

      Like. How does being mad that people picked Option B mean you are fine with people dying?

      I am doing the best I can in this flawed world, if you have better options, I beg you to say them instead of just saying OP doesn’t view Palestinians as human.

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        37 minutes ago

        Genuinely curious how you came to that conclusion?

        Well the bit where they describe their wholesale extermination as “a single foreign policy issue”. Or the bit where they value the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians less then a single digit number of Americans.

        wouldn’t actively try to destroy LGBT/women/minories’ rights

        Again, makes it seem like you don’t consider Palestinians human. Palestinians are women, Palestinians are LGBT. The Democrats were actively destroying their lives.

        What other choice to we have besides continuing to protest and using our meager wages to help fund aid for Palestine? Wtf else is the OP supposed to do to prove they care about Palestinians in your eyes?

        Not whining about and attacking the people opposed to their genocide while supporting the people carrying out their genocide.

        I have so many queer friends, and I am dating a trans person. I know so many immigrants

        A number that is essentially negligible compared to the number of people massacred in Gaza.

        Why shouldn’t I be mad

        Does “being mad” help anyone? Or is this just you admitting that this was never about pragmatic lesser-evilism and is just Democrat supporters being petulant that they lost.

        Like. How does being mad that people picked Option B mean you are fine with people dying?

        Maybe you should be mad at the people committing genocide. Not the people fucking opposing it.

        You know, if you genuinely believe in the “lesser evil” argument and actually follow it to its conclusion, you shouldn’t be looking at a situation where “doing another Holocaust” is bipartisan policy, and trying to figure out how you can ensure that you and your friends can be most comfortable. You should be trying to figure out what will most quickly lead to the collapse and destruction of the USA government. But I don’t see many VBNMW types willing to actually follow through on that.