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Time is running out for Kamala Harris to break with Biden on the Gaza catastrophe
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I think Palestinians are people and don't deserve a genocide, and I am voting for Harris
You are perpetuating a genocide by voting for Harris
These are incompatible statements.
No, it is true regsr of that. But the single issue is genocide, which is why you decided to be euphemistic about it.
You provided a nonsensical one-liner with no supporting logic. Telling you that it's wrong is sufficient, yes. I did not invite you to expound on it because you were already adopting defensive posturing.
Case in point: you just invented a quote and then conveniently ignored the other point I made. Let me remind you: the alleged single issue is genocide and I surmise you are reticent to speak openly about it because you know just how awful your dismissiveness of it will sound. But rather than confront such an inconsistency, liberals will paper over it. If they didn't do that, they might cease being liberals.
You should not support genociders.
My response works either way and I didn't assume you meant me specifically. I am not sure what you are even referring to here. I made no references to myself.
We are now having discourse about something you have apparently imagined and how I am various bad things in this imaginary scenario. Please return to reality and engage with what I actually say rather than making up quotes and ignoring half of what I say.
I think we may need to go to square 1 on discursive thought. I did not say or imply that not liking what you said means you are wrong. You are using an informal fallacy known as a straw man, which is where a person replies to an allegation by staying or implying something that was not said on the other person's behalf because it is easier to contend with.
This is a fancy way of telling you to stop relying on making things up. I have never implied what you alleged. Please do your best to stick to what I actually say instead of using bad faith posturing.
Then deny them. What was I wrong about? What was bad logic?
I didn't imply that you did. That's 2 straw men already in just this comment.
I would not consider this series of inventions and clichés to be scrutiny. At the moment there is a struggle to get you to respond to what I actually said instead of making things up. I will be excited when I finally get some scrutiny!
It was about the same length as my original sentence. The purpose of the misquote was to mock because you'd like to imagine me as like an obstinate child than acknowledge your own fear of even saying the word genocide - as you are complicit in one. No need for you to try explaining, it was obvious.
Yet again you have skipped over the other point I made. Isn't it getting conspicuous!?
I don't know what this is referring to. What did I do that I blamed others for?
And I don't need to be a psychic, just aware of tropes and behaviors. Notice that you are already confirming several of them accidentally!
What is the position I present as rational? That you should be against genocide? That you should work against genociders? Personally, I thought that would work as a shared baseline. I think the barrier is a set of chauvinistic talking points handed to you by the political class as well as a learned helplessness. And obviously an approach to discourse that is so defensive it permits repeatedly inventing things from whole cloth.
I haven't lost an argument here and am not attempting any kind of "do-over". Please do your best to reply to what I actually say rather than making things up.
No, I am being forthright and honest.
Such as?
Please reply to the things I actually say, such as the entirety of my last comment that you just ignored.
Pure word salad with no relation to what I said.
Please do your best to engage with what I say in good faith. If you cannot formulate a coherent response it is okay for you to take a break or simply not reply.
I can't fix the word salad for you, nor is it my fault that you are now behaving this way. Please do your best to engage in good faith.
I don't have any behavior requiring blame, my behaviot is good. I advocate against genocide, for example. I have never "blamed" you for what I am doing. I would commend you if you opposed genocide and responded germanely.
Unfortunately, at this point you are just repeating phrases in word salads.
I have not lied at any point. Feel free to tell me what I have said that is even incorrect. This would fly in the face of your current behavior so I won't hold my breath.
I don't believe this conversion has ever gotten to the point of anyone making any arguments. I think the closest thing to an argument was the "this is complex" reference but rather than defend it you fell apart.
I will take this to mean you have no reply. I accept your surrender and will gladly ignore the inevitable bad faith response.
Voting for 3rd party helps trump win which means even more genocide so "voting against genocide" is actually voting for more genocide
Voting for genociders means supporting their genocide. Not voting for genociders means not supporting genocide.
Might want to check your math there, chief.
Well sorry but that's not how logic works
Our givens are:
=> Harris is left of Trump (if only slightly in most points)
=> The people jumping to a 3rd party that is further left than Harris are only ex Dems.
=> Dems weaken while GOP is not weakening
=> Trump gets more likely voted into the White House the more people vote Green
=> Voting "against genocide" is causing the Party to win that makes Genocide most likely worse (fairly sure Trump said he wants to accelerate it) and will also Genocide its own population, starting by queers, immigrants and women
If you had a different voting system I'd agree with you that voting 3rd Party is the way to go but you don't have a voting system where that is anything but a vote thrown away in blind idealism. So yes if you vote 3rd Party I will blame you for worsening an existing and adding another genocide.
Sorry for shoddy formatting I don't quite know how to fix it.
It is, actually. It's very simple: I don't support genocide so I don't vote for genociders. Perfectly logical. Despite your condescension, you have yet to point out a flaw in my logic, though you are making inaccurate statements about my positron.
You have already failed to capture the basics of voting. You can also vote for other parties, write in a name in some states, and simply not vote on that line or at all. For such a condescending response we aren't even cracking high school civics territory yet. But you are revealing that you follow current party line talking points. The party in power, doing the genocide. Bad look, there.
Questionable. Manic JOYous appropriating genocidal neoliberal cop that gets no resistance from people like yourself vs. fading racist grandpa huckster that you presumably at least performatively might do something against.
Wrong. Many who vote third party have never considered themselves Democrats. Most Americans do not identify with either party.
Dems shouldn't commit genocide.
Trump would benefit specifically from votes (in swing states) for himself and a lack of votes (in swing states) for Harris. This can come from a number of premises but sure one of them is that someone that had planned to vote Harris votes for Stein instead. Thank you for this deep insight.
Oh? Is it not a genocide? Is the Biden-Harrus administration not an essential piece of it? Why the scare quotes, liberal?
Genocide is the systematic destruction of a people, it is as bad as it gets. There is no meaningful difference than the status quo and anything Trump could "accelerate". You aren't going to lesser evil genocide. Your genocider is also actually genociding, which should always be opposed, including compared to your hypotheticals. I could expound on how your framing is politically illiterate, including your normalization of genocide, but really this is not a complex situation.
To the extent that is true, it's already happening under Dems. They just pander to those groups at the same time they reinforce reaction and marginalization.
Wait, that's it!? I thought you were going to show me logic, not a series of barely-connected talking points. You didn't discuss the voting system!
Anyways I am correct regardless of the voting system. Though I will note that I have told you not to vote for genociders. I did not tell you to vote third party. I'm setting up a very low bar but liberals are so pro-genocide that they tend to fall to clear it.
That would be silly, as I would have voted for neither genocidal candidate. Blame yourself for normalizing genocide. For accepting a genocidal candidate. For advocating for a genocidal candidate during their genocide. Do you see how obviously complicit this makes you? I work against all of those things. Your "logic", which is to say bog standard lesser evil tropes, has gotten you to flip reality on its head.
I could expound on this topic but you would need to express curiosity or present a coherent case.
Ok to make some thing clear because you seem to misunderstand a lot of things. I'm not from the US, I vote greens in my country and despise the liberals of your and my country. When i put quotes around against genocide I do so because as I explain in the whole thing it's in effect not against genocide as it's not stopping it plus adding a genocide in your own population. I don't put the quotes around genocide without the word against because a genocide it is. You are so caught up in your whole spiel that you've built a boogeyman you assume me to be without actually reading the text which is already clear when you take my introductory sentence and complain that I've not provided the logic before the introduction. When my logic sends like standard laser evil tropes then that's because it is. I detailed the logic without buzzwords because so many people stop thinking about the why the moment they hear them. And you don't need more than lesser evil because lesser evil is all you have in your shithole of an electory system. You have no option to actually bring a 3rd party into power. Maybe I'll get to your other points when I'm actually awake and not lying in bed with a fever but probably not
If you want to clarify any of my alleged misunderstandings I expect you to name what I actually got wrong and quote it if necessary. You made a series of errors in your response and are not in a position to project an sense of condescension.
I never said otherwise.
Greens are, generally speaking, liberals. Just because they don't put "liberal" in their name doesn't mean they aren't part of the liberal ideology of capitalism - in this case, via reforms like regulating energy production and expanding social programs. Buy they lose to groups like, say, AfD because they cleave to the liberal policies that degrade conditions and they embrace Imperialism just as willingly as any socdem party.
I see, so they were scare quotes intended to denigrate the act of not voting for genociders. This is only slightly less shameful.
You are advocating for supporting genociders I do not need much in the way of assumptions.
I read and quoted literally everything you said and responded to it directly. And no, you did not provide logic. I was correct in this. Your attempt at a lecture was disjointed and you did not tie the pieces together. I had to surmise the connections for you and point out the gaps.
Yes I know, these are tropes taught to children and sold to the politically illiterate. I have already said this.
You did not provide logic. Your premises were false and your conclusions don't follow from them or a coherent rationale. I did my best to respond to it by recognizing that these are not your ideas they are bits and pieces of very standard Baby's First Electoralism bits of partisan logic.
Oh? So when are you going to respond to my criticisms? Do you think that you, yourself, may have actually stopped thinking about it? Instead detailing the bits that you feel you were right about and that I did not get right, conveniently ignoring the rest?
Again, these are not new concepts to me. You are not teaching me anything. I shared this lesser evil logic when I was a child and then I actually read history and politics. This does not make me special or better, but you have exactly the wrong posturing for this conversation.
And a good clue for how you are wrong is that instead of opposing genocide you are trying to get people to support genociders. That should have made you pause and go do some reading. You are doing a horrible thing. Don't you think you should have made sure you were right?
Incortect and I already addressed this. Please respond to what I have said rather than repeating your lecture.
I have an option to spread consciousness against genocidal capitalists and their political parties. The greatest error in your "logic" is your framing and assumptions. We could get to that topic if you would actually engage with what I said and ask questions.
I'm sorry you have a fever. I suggest you rest instead of advocating for genocide.