Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?
Serious statement: I don't understand the argument that not voting for Harris was the morally correct thing to do, because of Gaza. Why does anyone believe this?
And I'm being serious. I feel like there might be an argument there, I just don't understand it. Can someone please "steelman" that argument for me?
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What's the counter-argument in favor of genocide?
More importantly the vast majority of votes don't matter because the system was created by slavers in order to guarantee their oppression never ends.
What's the counter-argument in favor of genocide?
Thw arguement is the party that has been calling for a cease fire since the start if the conflict versus the one that will actively encourage Netanyahu.
They've been calling for it in the most disingneous way possible and Harris failed to separate herself from that. Biden has openly repeated every debunked lie Netanyahu or the IDF offers, even to the point of Netanyahu setting Biden up and walking away when we depended on that statement. We made fun of Trump for the exact same thing with Putin. And you can't be a meaningful mediator if you're transparently controlled by one side.
One lues about it and one boasts. Both are the same.
I think this point slides right past many people. The Electoral College and the 3/5ths compromise were the original American vote buying scheme. Southerners could literally buy slaves to increase their population and thus number of EC votes for president. They don't do that anymore but does anyone remember the massive advertisement campaigns of Texas and Florida being cheaper places to live, work, and employ people in the 2010's? They knew the next census was coming. They got a net gain of 4 more EC votes into their states by giving massive tax incentives to corporations and advertising cheap real estate. (It was 6 overall but 2 came from other red areas)
The EC was made for gaming the system, it's still used to game the system, and it should be abolished. Without that marketing campaign PA wouldn't have been the make or break state last night. A popular vote system is commonly derided as ignoring rural voters, but as we saw last night that's not true. And any party that ignores such a large demographic would be setting itself up to be on the receiving end of another "southern strategy".
The republicans have such a stronger political strategy than the democrats to the point that it’s embarrassing.