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What's the actual difference? You end up at the same place with either one.
Says who? Yeah, the Dems are filthy neolibs, but all they really care about is money and influence. They're rainbow capitalists.
The other is literally based on hate and fear, they might actually care about building a christo-nationalist ethnostate more than money.
They certainly have some goals in common, but even compromise isn't going to the same place.
They are rainbow capitalist because of former material conditions. Besides bombing the Middle East because of alleged inherent homophobia and steal their oil or bombing the Middle East because they are slur and steal their oil - is in the end a matter of rhetoric only.
Correct.
That is why they maintain American imperialism.
Such as funding a genocide in the middle east.
Exactly. They fund genocide because it's politically expedient. The opposition funds genocide because they love killing brown people
It's conceivable to convince one side that genocide is no longer politically favorable. You're never going to convince the other side to stop wanting to kill brown people. There is no third option with prospects to win.
You cannot convince the rich and powerful that it's politically unfavourable when it's economically favourable to do genocide.
They don't care about what people want. They care about what they want, and that's US imperialism.
I'm saying that it's possible to make it economically unfavorable. If, for instance, you had massive boycotts or strikes or something.
No amount of boycotts or striking are going to make the others stop wanting to murder brown people for its own sake.
That makes the choice clear.
This feels like trying to explain to someone that you can have 2 different infinities, and one is larger than the other. Both are bad, but one is clearly worse.
"What's the difference if you end up at the same place?"
The difference is that 2 genocides is not the same place as 1 genocide. It is reasonable to criticize the people supporting a genocide while at the same time recognizing that the people wanting more genocides are not the same.
The only real difference is that there are consequences for you at home in the US and that's the only part you actually care about
And a million dead kids because Trump killed usaid but go off I guess.
"But what about the american children" like I said
I don't live in the US, there are no consequences for me as a result of Trump being president. Significantly more people are being harmed under Trump and I actually give a shit about other people instead of putting some idealized moral high ground above actual human lives.
Zero genocide isn't an idealised moral high ground and it's incredibly telling to see someone excuse it.
"I won't vote for someone who isn't speaking about X" is an idealized moral high ground when the alternative is not only X getting worse, but even more X happening.
Fuck you you genocidal prick. Substituting genocide for "x" is disgusting. It's not "oh there's just this one bad thing". It's genocide. It's literally the worst possible thing you can do on this planet. And you're saying other people have an idealised moral high ground because they think GENOCIDE is something that should never be done.
Right, the person complaining about there being more genocide means they.... want genocide? What a useful thought terminating cliche you have there that gives you an excuse to avoid questioning if your own actions could have been better.
You know what's worse than genocide? More genocide. I don't know how to simplify this further for you.
The person belittling a genocide is a genocidal prick. There is no "more genocide". If genocide isn't a redline for you then you're a genocidal prick.
The entire world isn't genocide. If, for example, there isn't a genocide happening in England, and one starts in England, that would be more genocide than what is currently happening in the world. Seeing that and saying "the exact same amount of genocide is happening" just makes you sound like a fucking idiot.
The genocide that happened under Biden is the same one happening under Trump. Saying "but Trump will do more genocide" makes you sound like a fucking idiot.
And saying "Not voting for someone who refuses to speak out on x is having an idealised moral high ground" when the x in question is a genocide makes you a genocide belittling prick.
Tell me you don't pay attention without telling me you don't pay attention.
You cut off the rest of the sentence: "When the alternative will only result in more." Your problem is you fail at context, everything exists in a vacuum and has no affect on anything else.
You stand for absolutely nothing, you deserve Trump and worse
Right, all my posts about more genocide is bad means I don't care about anything.
Great contribution.
"more genocide is bad, the same amount of genocide as before is a reasonable compromise to ensure the stability of the homeland"
All I said was "more genocide is bad". I can't believe people would disagree with that so hard.
Nobody's buying your bullshit
My bullshit that genocide can get worse and that's bad?
Yes, that exact bullshit
Do you just go from meme to meme taking it super serious?
Yep, super serious
Me too!
People were being harmed under Biden, our foreign and domestic policy has consequences for the vast majority of the world, you're either a moron or lying
American exceptionalism strikes again.
"Everything America does directly affects everyone else in the world. You only care now because of this. I cared before and that's why I did nothing to stop this."
It's not exceptionalism it's the direct result of our interference in other governments, goddamn you're dumb
How do you find yourself typing something like this and not pause for thought?
You are already a fascist. You have already approved the genocide of a nation for the sake of what? Saving minorities in America? Guess what you will send them straight to the furnace the moment they become "expedient" to sacrifice for your own gain.
The first they came for poem comes to mind.