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[-] ShadowRam@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

I mean,

If Obama's handling of Guantanamo not closing and the drone striking of Somalia and Yemen didn't stop his second term.
I can't see how Gaza's situation will affect Biden's.

Truth is, most of your population doesn't even pay attention to the details of news, unless it's something to do with Kardashian's or Taylor Swift.

[-] CaractacusPotts@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

There is a significant Muslim population in Michigan that is paying attention. Michigan is a swing state, if Biden loses it he probably loses the election.

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This whole thing is so depressing. Not Gaza, which is a tragedy, but the conversation around it. People who have family members starving and dying right now are upset, and there is zero empathy for them. Just anger directed at them by people who are (or were) ostensibly on their side.

I will not be commenting further in this thread because it belongs in !politics and I'm out of antidepressants but not booze.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

It's difficult. On one hand, it is a fucking atrocity, and it's hard to blame people for being upset that someone with the power to at least lessen the harm, isn't.

But on the other hand, ensuring the greater evil gets in does nothing. No Palestinians are saved by a Trump presidency - and it's very likely that MORE will die compared to a Biden administration, considering Trump's all-in attitude with Netanyahu. Not only are no Palestinians saved, but many Ukrainians, Americans, and Taiwanese will likely suffer and die in not inconsiderable numbers directly due to a Trump presidency.

As such, it's difficult to look at someone grieving and saying "Everyone's throat should be cut, not just my son's!" and react with sympathy when that has very real effects on whether or not everyone's throat gets cut.

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[-] Chozo@kbin.social 3 points 7 months ago

I will absolutely blame the voters, because it'd literally be their fault. That's how elections work.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 7 months ago

Well, there are also Belarussian elections.

[-] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 3 points 7 months ago

I guess at the basic level Biden must think the pro Israel vote is bigger than the gaza vote?

[-] Primarily0617@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

Statistically, your one vote is as meaningful whether you vote for a major party or a third party.

You don't vote to get your preferred candidate in. You vote to pull the one that might closer to where you want them.

Voting for Biden is voting for a genocide, whether you want it to be or not. Assuming Biden gets in, all you've done is tell the DNC that their voter base actually don't care all that much about genocide.

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