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Not only are you trying to deflect criticism but you are doing so with a straw-man, pathetic.
The point isn't any illusion that the Reps aren't doing those things, the point is that the fact the Dems are doing the same thing shows that they aren't any better or any less evil than the Reps.
I disagree with you, and I believe evil has a scale, if you will. The Democrats are far less evil than Republicans. You need a new government, wholesale, and I've said as much. But if you are going to pick the lesser of two evils, you ha e failed greatly at that task. You picked the most evil of all evils, and you are paying the price, as are the Palestinians. Who is deflecting? You won't admit the Republicans are more in the wrong. You just point out shit Dems do as if the other party isn't doing it ten times harder. So nyah!
You ghouls keep acting like leftists not supporting genocide were somehow entitled. Maybe Biden should have prevented the extermination of Palestinians if they wanted the leftist vote then???
I'm not from the US, I'm imperialized by the US, which is true regardless of who sits in the white house.
That aside I find it frustrating that you act as if Palestinians deserve collective punishment because of mythical leftists not voting for Harris, which I don't believe is even reality, but if it was, she could have just said she'd stop the genocide in Gaza, and done. Politicians aren't entitled to votes. And Palestinians are people. So fuck you.
What the fuck are you even talking about? I have not once justified what is happening. Not once. I'm saying you have the most evil government possible handling the case, but everyone just wants to blame Democrats for not doing anything. How about attacking the people doing the thing maybe? What an idea?! For the record, I am Canadian. The US needs to fix their shit, and not voting because "both bad" is stupid as all heck.
You keep saying that but you never provide any evidence that they are. You just take it on blind faith that they are and speak like it's an obvious and unquestionable fact when it isn't. Pretty much every single messed up the Republicans did, from kinds in cages and the wall to war, the Democrats have most often followed right in their footsteps and pilled on.
How are they "far less evil" exactly? According to who? To what?
That's the only point on which we agree.
Again, this is contingent on your blind faith belief that there is a lesser evil of the two, with which I do not agree.
From before the previous elections, I've been of the opinion that Trump wouldn't be able to do worse to the Palestinian than the Democrats did even if he wanted to for the simple reason that the Democrats were already doing the worst that America could afford to do under the current circumstances.
And I've been vindicated in that belief, because like it or not, the fact is that the Republicans haven't done anything to Gaza that the Democrats weren't already doing or weren't planning to do. Even the Trump real estate in Gaza bullshit isn't fundamentally different from what was already planned to be done with the region under the Democrats.
Point is, your narrative that the Democrats did the the Palestinian genocide "less hard" than the Republicans would is objectively false. They have demonstrated themselves to be rabid Zionists and it is extremely naive to believe they wouldn't do the genocide as hard as they possibly can.
Again, you can't just claim that they are less evil, you have to show that they are. You haven't, and you never do.
Where's the "ten times" comes from Alex? Can you explain that to me? By what metric are they doing these things "ten times harder" Alex?
Again, same thing I keep pointing out in this comment. You keep saying but you never show. You never propose examples. Why? Because you don't know that the Dems are the lesser evil, you just believe it. That's why I keep saying that you're taking it on blind faith, because you are.
Do I need to whip out statistics on the crimes perpetrated by ice in the last two weeks? The dismantling of environmental protection agencies, the exposure of high level secrets by administrative agents. The careless and reckless bombing of civilian water craft. The invasion of a foreign country to steal their oil for pennies on the dollar? I could go on, but you need sources?! It's called Google. You havent given me any evidence the left is just as evil, only that they also supported Palestinian genocide. We'll never know what this could have looked liked under a democratic regime? Except you'll just shout "samesies" and call it a day. There is more than one issue facing the world or your country.