• stickly@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Right on cue. And yes it’s a political issue, it pretty snugly fits the common definition.

    Political issues refer to matters that are of public concern and involve conflicting viewpoints within a society, often requiring governmental action or public policy to address them

    Trying to pretend it’s something sacrosanct and beyond politics is what makes a single issue voter.

    Ah yes the genocide in gaza legal murder of babies is an “issue”. A slight inconvenience really

    That’s you.

    If you actually cared about the lives of people in the middle east you should be just as outraged over Trump unilaterally bombing a sovereign state, direct military action that wouldn’t have happened with the Democratic candidates.

    Or, as I pointed out, the deliberate climate destruction that will literally boil more people alive with wet bulb events.

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        Damn why so mad, my candidate didn’t bomb those people when given the exact same chance. Or are we back to campaigning against hypotheticals instead of reality?

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                Ok, here I am demanding it. Now what? Continue to be lambasted by the left for also making the only sane decision in a two box election? How am I going to demand anything now when ICE/National Guard are enforcing curfews to suppress any political gatherings? Come on, tell me what magic wand to wave. You’ve clearly got the answers

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                    Ok so you’ve got nothing to add so your opinion is worthless ✅

                    Who said it was my party? I’m casting one vote that needed to be cast. If you don’t like my strategy but have no viable alternative then keep your mouth shut

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        5 days ago

        Projected climate collapse deaths by 2050: 14.5 million, about 250k per year.

        Gaza deaths to date: in the range of 80k-100k, hard ceiling of ~2 million.

        What could be more sacrosanct than the one and only habitable planet we’ll ever get? Certainly not a piece of paper?

        I live in a first world country with solid resource access, I can tell you for sure I won’t affected as much as the people being cooked to death in India. Why should I care about them?

        It’s revealing that you weigh one favorite group of starving victims against the millions of others. Just because one is direct human cruelty and the other is direct and malicious social murder?

        Don’t tell me you care about both equally, because that’s clearly not the vote you want to cast.

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          Yup. We had a chance to maybe turn the bus but no, we’re going right off the cliff, gunning the engine no less, thanks to people who would rather cling to a single issue instead of mitigate harm across the wider spectrum.

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            Voting options were not:

            A. Genocide

            B. No genocide

            They were: A. Genocide in Gaza

            B: genocide in Gaza + maybe Ukraine + maybe losing democracy + rolling back environmental protections + enabling the best friend of a known pedophile child trafficker… Etc

            C. B, but with a side of smug self satisfying moral high ground

            You are not more moral for choosing C.

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            Guess what, you can both care about the environment AND not commit genocide.

            Oh really? Which candidate on the ballot in 2024 who had that platform? None? Well I guess I’ll opt for the one that’s at least 1 for 2.

            The conversation was always about harm reduction, but keep imagining that one policy is the only thing that matters.

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                Nah man, plenty of other people all over the world are harmed way more by the Trump administration. Take your head out of the sand if you’re going to pretend to actually give a shit about anything

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                    Holy fuck open your goddamn eyes. Way worse is continuing that policy PLUS literally every grift, corruption, destruction, repression, depression and violence of the 2nd Trump term. What the fuck are you even arguing here?

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                    Ok so they did that. Now what are my new options in the voting booth? Does that actually change my voting strategy in any way?