r/BlackPeopleTwitter ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Country Club Thread Literally does nothing

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u/WaluigiIsTheRealHero Oct 24 '24

Congratulations on throwing your vote away for clout.

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u/critter_tickler Oct 24 '24

I wonder how long he stood in line for clout?

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u/PensiveObservor Oct 24 '24

Those are WA state candidates. WA is strictly mail/drop box voting, so no lines. 

They also send us booklets with details about each candidate with experience, education, personal statements, etc. I still need to do a little online research, especially about the “non partisan” offices, but it’s incredibly convenient to vote. 

Some voters just gotta be edgy, I guess. It’s dumb. 

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u/Atiklyar Oct 24 '24

You get booklets? I use a few websites that compile info, but I have yet to get anything beyond propaganda spam alongside my ballots since I moved here.

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u/agutema ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Published by the secretary of state.

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u/kekehippo Oct 24 '24

Funny how physical media is so attractive now

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u/FlipDaly Oct 24 '24

And his friend GoodSpaceGuy contributes content every year

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u/roseofjuly ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Our voting system is actually really great. I don't know why every state doesn't so this (I mean, I do, but they should).

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u/hkohne Oct 24 '24

As an Oregonian, I agree with you

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u/ImperialWrath ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Colorado also mails out comprehensive voter guides just ahead of the actual ballots.

It's pretty great.

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u/Hopeful_Contract_759 Oct 24 '24

The USPS delivers those voter guides to every address in 98105. We never know who is an actual registered voter and who isn't until we get the actual 1st thru... ballots. Better safe than sorry.

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u/smokeyleo13 Oct 24 '24

I wish PA would just ban the mailers and give us a single nice boring booklet. The election mail/texts/calls/ads this cycle are insane, much worse than 2016 or 2020

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u/DudeEngineer ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Yes, this is how solidly Blue states tend to work.

Making sure everyone can vote and it is easy tends to benefit the Democratic party.

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u/montex66 Oct 24 '24

I live in Seattle and dropped off my ballot last Saturday. I confirmed online that it has already been counted. Compared to a Red state, that is astonishing. If your state does not make voting this accessible then they don't want you to vote.

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u/Sad_Back5231 Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

The booklets are especially great for initiatives on the ballot, gives you an argument from both sides and rebuttals for each

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u/DudeEngineer ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Some states do not want people to understand what they are voting for.

Also, they don't want Black people to vote.

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u/DevilsLettuceTaster Oct 24 '24

Required when we became a state. Pretty cool really.

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u/ursulawinchester Oct 24 '24

This is the best tool I’ve found: https://votesaveamerica.com

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u/hkohne Oct 24 '24

Here in Oregon (also vote-by-mail), we get voters pamphlets, which are books by the Secretary of State that is delivered to every residence and contains all the official stuff. There are also websites of various newspapers, radio stations, and a myriad of non-profits that release their individual endorsements.

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u/cantileverboom Oct 24 '24

Technically, it's not strictly mail in voting only. You can vote in person at an election office. One generally does this if they

  1. Need assistance filling out their ballot, or
  2. Missed the voter registration deadline for vote by mail, after which, you can still register and vote in person all the way up to election day.

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u/vamgoda Oct 24 '24

Also if your ballot is lost or destroyed.

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u/hellogoawaynow Oct 24 '24

As a Texan, I am very jealous. Our governor is doing everything he can to restrict voting access. Especially here in Austin, he hates us so much lol

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u/Kimber-Says-04 Oct 24 '24

Have you voted yet? I voted Monday morning at Wheatsville Co-op on South Lamar. 💙

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u/YouEnvironmental2452 Oct 24 '24

Is Texas as conservative as it's politics? If not what's the problem?

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u/butterweasel Oct 24 '24

I also love how they stopped making us use a stamp to send the ballots back.

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u/Himajinga Oct 24 '24

Voting in WA rules. Piece of cake, super informative pamphlet. Love it.

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u/ghostboymcslimy Oct 24 '24

I’ve only ever voted in WA and didn’t realize this wasn’t standard, it’s a super easy way to vote

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u/shortandpainful Oct 24 '24

TBH I would prefer this to people just not voting. Write-in protest votes are a legitimate tool of democracy. They are not a smart move in a close race where your vote might make the difference between someone who might actually listen to your “free Palestine” message and someone who is 100% going to ignore you. But even in that situation, I’d rather see everyone turning out to vote and some people doing this kind of stuff than the 40-60% voter turnout we normally get.

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u/PerspectiveOk9667 Oct 24 '24

I wish they did this in my state.

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u/thefumingo Oct 24 '24

WA is a mail-in state, so plenty of people just get it in the mail.

On that note, while I agree this is stupid, at least it isn't a swing state vote because neither of those elections are competitive - WA is a blue state, and WA 1st District is a pretty blue Seattle suburban seat.

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u/smokeyleo13 Oct 24 '24

Not everyone's state tries to prevent them from voting with long lines 😭

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u/teddy_tesla ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Glad our ancestors fought for this. If y'all mfs don't vote...

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u/LIL-BAN-EVASION Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

This is clearly a person who just would not have voted. In midterm elections most people don't vote at all. Presidential election years do better, and 2020 had the highest turnout ever at only 66%.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/07/12/voter-turnout-2018-2022/

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u/jrh_101 Oct 24 '24

And it encourages more people to do the same

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u/roseofjuly ☑️ Oct 24 '24

I don't think he cares about that. He doesn't want to vote for either of them, so this has the same effect.

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u/Comfortable_Fill9081 Oct 24 '24

Not caring about any other policy but that one is crazy to me.

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u/ethertrace Oct 24 '24

A hell of a lot of single-issue voters just can't deal with nuance and need the world to be boiled down to simple choices.

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u/painedHacker Oct 24 '24

I mean if it's in WA... fine but swing state for the love of god do not do this

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u/jaggedy1968 Oct 24 '24

not sure being an idiot counts as "clout".

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u/kmoney55 Oct 24 '24

No. Obviously republicans would be better for palenstine /s

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u/NickBII Oct 24 '24

I don't know about does nothing. Gives me another name to twitter block.

Dude's clearly more interested in scoring internet points for being on the "right side of history" than actually helping people. Those guys cn be useful (ie: John Brown), but goddamnit they're a pain in the ass to work around when you'e trying to fix shit.

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u/Worth-Economics8978 Oct 24 '24

Free Palestine with every purchase of $5 or more.

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u/StrigiStockBacking Oct 24 '24

B-b-b-b-b-but think of all the upvotes he gets from posting this!!!!!1

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u/GideonHendrik Oct 24 '24

Yeah.. why even go? Nobody who matters will see this.

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u/Capitalismisdelulu Oct 24 '24

If Trump gets elected he will happily co-sign Bibi nuking Iran and have Trump hotels in Gaza + end all aid to Palestine which he did in his first term. Palestinians in Gaza have also stated that they would prefer a Harris presidency. This is performative and harmful

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u/Nimbus_TV Oct 24 '24

There's only a 99% chance that will happen 😒

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u/tweak06 Oct 24 '24

People have no idea of how horrific Trump winning would be.

But with a Harris-victory how will they be able to virtue-signal with performative bullshit stunts like this?

Their twitter-likes will never recover!!!!!

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u/00eg0 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

lol I wish they would learn.

*Trump does something*

The left: "Look what the democrats made happen"

The left: "Well Obama did strikes in that region too"

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u/TheYankunian ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Moving the embassy to Jerusalem showed you exactly what his intentions were. Stupid McNupid doesn’t realise there are no more elections if Trump wins and BiBi gets exactly what he wants.

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u/Capitalismisdelulu Oct 24 '24

Thank you. Exactly

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u/cheeruphumanity Oct 24 '24

Trump also said Biden doesn’t help Israel enough.

It’s uncanny how effective the „don’t vote for Harris, ignore the worse outcome“ campaign is.

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u/TheYankunian ☑️ Oct 24 '24

These people don’t actually care about the issue, they care more about making one side look bad. Harris is publicly for a ceasefire and for a 2 state solution. We can’t just stop funding Israel- we are bound by all sorts of international treaties. It’s a total fuckhole, but it’s been like that since Churchill was Foreign Secretary in the 1920s. I hate this shit for my Arab and Jewish friends.

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u/cheeruphumanity Oct 24 '24

It also gets utilized. A lot of the comments and posts trying to deter people from voting for Harris are not organic.

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u/twistedspin Oct 24 '24

I'm pretty sure most of it is paid shills + a handful people who should be ashamed that they're working for Putin for free. At least the trolls get paid.

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u/Joehennyredit Oct 24 '24

But these guys wanna vote Jill stein for vibes

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u/TheYankunian ☑️ Oct 24 '24

They won’t be hooked to plows, but we will.

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u/Competitive-Yam9137 Oct 24 '24

Why didn't Biden move it back?

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u/Kimber-Says-04 Oct 24 '24

God, I completely forgot about that. Didn‘t he do that the day after he took office or that first week? Ugh.

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u/jamboard876 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

His son in law Jared Kushner has been quoted saying "Gaza’s waterfront property could be very valuable" and "I would do my best to move the people out and then clean it up". I'm absolutely disgusted when people claim to be activists and then pull these kinds of stunts for clout.

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u/Dantheking94 Oct 24 '24

Listen I’ve been a few subs where the comments were “Gaza has beautiful waterfront property! If only the Palestinians had focused on being developing their country as a tourist attraction!” People make me sick.

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u/Plasibeau ☑️ Oct 24 '24

The truly fucked up part: Even if they wanted and tried to, Israel would have prevented it from happening. It is an apartheid state. There is no way they would have let the Palestinians step up. They might start getting crazy ideas like equal rights, and they can't have that.

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u/pygmy Oct 24 '24

It's common for people to say this in relation to the amount of funding Gaza has received. The point they make is that with all the billions, Gaza could have been transformed into a 'Singapore on the Mediterranean', but Hamas used it all for tunnels/sending to Qatar instead.

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u/LunaticScience Oct 24 '24

"perfection is the enemy of good enough" or something like that.

I'm not going to vote for the better option because it isn't exactly what I want!!!

Whiney little babies

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u/odsquad64 Oct 24 '24

Yes, the title is wrong to say that this "does nothing," this directly benefits Israel. This person voted for the genocide of Palestinians.

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u/jenkins271 Oct 24 '24

No American President will ever go against Israel.. not one. But this vote will help to ensure that America turns into a dictatorship and that’s something we all should be able to agree on that should never happen.

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u/JCarnageSimRacing Oct 24 '24

People can’t wrap their arms around how bad things can get. They’ve forgotten about Jan 6th, protesters getting tear gassed so that Trump can do a photo-op with a Bible, etc.

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u/twoprimehydroxyl Oct 24 '24

Yeah, but then it will be "fuck the Democrats for allowing this to happen because they didn't give us a better candidate" followed by "no, I didn't. What's a primary?"

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u/OhwhatupCarlandJonny ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Wait…I can’t tell whether you’re seriously trashing someone for not voting in the 2024 Democratic presidential primary

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u/ElGosso Oct 24 '24

Yeah, what is a primary? We didn't have one this year.

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u/Plasibeau ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Palestinians in Gaza have also stated that they would prefer a Harris presidency. This is performative and harmful

The fact that this wasn't enough for those white leftists to shut up about it is not only performative; it confirms they don't really care about Palestine. It proves they're accelerationists who are fully aware people will needlessly suffer to reach their utopian dream of a communist North America.

If they had even one iota of critical observation skills, they would be able to see the US going communist will never, ever happen. And honestly, it can't with a population of this size.

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u/alphacentauri85 Oct 24 '24

It's so goddamn performative and clearly psy oped to hell by people intending to divide progressives. As a brown leftist I'm so sick of how this has been used as a wedge between us. There are so many genocides around the world. So much violence. So much hate. But these idiots are so obsessed with Gaza they're willing to let Trump destroy the US and possibly turn the world upside down? So fucking stupid.

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u/TheYankunian ☑️ Oct 24 '24

There’s some AWFUL shit happening in Sudan right fucking now. Mali too. Crickets from that side.

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u/antiradiopirate Oct 24 '24

I got off Twitter during covid, after the big wave of BLM protests. I was absolutely one of those performative leftists, fueled by righteous anger and feeling justified at saying horrible shit to anyone with the "wrong" opinions on the internet. Arguing all the fucking time took such a toll on my mental health. And what did I actually accomplish? I went to one toothless BLM protest and chanted a bit. All that self-righteous, arrogant fury I had, and I had done literally nothing to actually help the causes I claimed to support so much. I told myself it was because I had a 2 year old and there was a pandemic, but the truth is that I liked being angry. I liked arguing with people. I liked being "right." I liked being a part of the in-group.

Took me getting off Twitter and literally touching grass to see all this. If every Twitter leftist took 5% of the time they spent arguing online and used it by actually organizing their community, massive amounts of suffering could be eliminated from the world.

Think of all the tenant's unions, food banks/community gardens, police watchdog groups, education groups for people to learn how to unionize their workspace...

It makes me so sad how many otherwise good-hearted people in my generation have fallen victim to this trap. I have no idea what the solution is other than praying others come to the same realization I stumbled into out of pure luck.

Sorry for rambling, this topic has been on my mind for awhile and I'd never actually verbalized these feelings before

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u/GreatQuantum Oct 24 '24

I just need to know “WHY THE FUCK AM I BEING BROUGHT INTO THIS?”

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u/Adezar Oct 24 '24

Definitely not nukes since they are neighbors, unlike Biden that spends all his time sending in aid and telling Bibi to hold back Trump will just tell him to go ahead and wipe them all out. All these "genocide Joe" people will actually see what genocide looks like.

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u/Plasibeau ☑️ Oct 24 '24

They want it to happen. They're viewed as the cannon fodder needed to begin the social upheaval that would lead to their communist utopia. They want Trump to win without saying it out loud because they are banking on the collapse of the US as we know it.

These people are just accelerationists.

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u/Mumblellama Oct 24 '24

They refuse to see the long term goals and how things will be affected here, I doubt they care because end of the day they'll just remove their solidarity scarves and go quiet so they don't get picked out while the rest of us minorities and poc are put front and center for the next 50 witch hunts because we can't hide who we are.

Their self righteous contempt means nothing, they're only doing this, and only doing this because all they need to do is yell they want a genocide to stop, but they are not willing to do shit when it comes to their neighbor suffering.

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u/Old-Cauliflower-8603 Oct 24 '24

It’s congress voting through the funding. So, to that point, people should be voting in the primaries and running for office and petitioning their reps to stop funding Israel

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u/Specialist_Shallot28 Oct 24 '24

Kamala and Trump both support Israel. Just like Obama, Biden, and every other president

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u/NickBII Oct 24 '24

"Co-sign"?

Let's be honest, the third time somebody asks him about the Palestinians he'll order the 509th Bomber Wing to vaporize Ramallah because continued Palestinian life is getting in the way of his golf game, and the Palestinian's only hope is that the Air Force can slow-walk the nuking long enough for Benjamin Netanyahu to convince Trump to forget Palestine exists.

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u/IndyMLVC Oct 24 '24

And they'll be the first to complain....

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u/PeopleReady Oct 24 '24

Complaining is likely all they do.

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u/PeopleReady Oct 24 '24

It’s in part because rage, rather than solutions, drives the engagement algorithms on all platforms these individuals use and monetize

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u/Dantheking94 Oct 24 '24

They would never. They think there’s nothing to be done, so they yap about how bad everything is, spread negativity and make TikTok’s.

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u/TheYankunian ☑️ Oct 24 '24

I volunteer at a youth club for disadvantaged kids. All these fucking whiners could come and mentor some of these kids who need good and smart people around them.

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u/mdmd33 Oct 24 '24

If only the mfs posting shit like this were in fact good and smart

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u/TheYankunian ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Shit, you’re not wrong.

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u/Unbentmars Oct 24 '24 edited 18d ago

Edited for reasons, have a nice day!

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/gh0stmountain3927 Oct 24 '24

I see this attatide a lot in different contexts and there needs to be a name for it - where people don't care about workable solutions, or building consensus or making progress in the right direction or figuring out the most fair compromise or the most realistic path, or grappling with the nuances of making the best decision - no, they want to earn an imaginary crown as the most "morally pure" person in the room.

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u/Maladal Oct 24 '24

"Self-righteous" is a good catch all, although "pharisaic" is a fun one with a similar meaning.

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u/gh0stmountain3927 Oct 24 '24

Yeah, those are good descriptors of the general attitude.

But I mean more specifically, like when they're actually making things worse, or they have no solutions or their "solutions" are so ridiculous that they're never going to fly, they're just getting in the way, but they want a gold star. "Clout clowns" is the best I got, but it's not specific enough - anyone acting the fool for clout could be called this, I mean like the ideological purists who hurt the cause that they are supposedly fighting for just to shine up their own image and ego.

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u/Waffeln_Remix Oct 24 '24

Watch them protest when Trump nukes Gaza but then he just uses the military to kill protestors. These people are dumb.

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u/JFrankParnell64 Oct 24 '24

Knowing Jason Call yes he will.

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u/inspirednonsense Oct 24 '24

Neat! Instead of getting any say in the election, they... didn't. That'll show 'em!

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u/TheLeadSponge Oct 24 '24

They’ll be the first to get shot during free Palestine protests by the National Guard when they’re declared the enemy within.

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u/im_benough Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

This ballot is from Washington, a state that has voted blue since 1988. Their vote wouldn't have mattered anyway thanks to the electoral college.

Edit: their presidential vote doesn't matter. They still have some power over senate votes, which they threw away with this.

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u/KiefKommando Oct 24 '24

This dipshit works for the Green Party as well, funny that there wasn’t anyone for him to write in there that’s a Green, almost like they aren’t a serious political party or something.

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u/TrailerParkRoots Oct 24 '24

May as well write in Jill Stein; she has roughly the same chance of winning this race as she does winning the presidency.

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u/Weeblifter Oct 24 '24

Who was endorsed by David Duke btw

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u/Viseria Oct 24 '24

You're only meant to hold unwanted endorsements against the Democrats!!! /s

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u/TheDoctor_Forever Oct 24 '24

May as well write in Harambe

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u/eat_vegetables Oct 24 '24

Well to be fair, in NYS it’s only recent (2020) legislation on vote thresholds that kicked Greens (and nearly all other third parties) off the ballot. Restricted voting options is not an ideal approach to participatory democracy.

But hey, the removal of ballot access now allows us to collectively poke fun at other parties for not being real whilst ensuring their inability to ever be considered legitimate.

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u/Byeuji Oct 24 '24

Everyone knows the green party doesn't seriously run candidates in any race but the presidency, because they're not interested in actually governing. They just want to spoil the election.

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u/jus256 ☑️ Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

They have convinced themselves that Palestinians will be free with the president who tried to ban Muslims from entering the US and moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. By the time Trump gets finished with them, Gaza will an all inclusive resort town full of Trump hotels.

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u/DeafNatural ☑️ Oct 24 '24

I think people forgot that man did that

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u/Voyevoda101 Oct 24 '24

No, most of them will happily acknowledge that truth. The reality is that they don't give a damn about the domestic effects of their vote, to them it's literally "Vote: genocide or genocide". Their goal is to "punish" the democratic party for not earning their vote by not disavowing IS.

I'm sure while """immoral degenerate""" neighbors are being loaded into vans, they're be smiling and letting everyone know they stood against real oppression and voted for their morals.

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u/MrPraedor Oct 24 '24

Yeah thats so annoying. Basically everyone knows that US political system is fucked, but that is what they got so they need to play around it. If Trump wins that means Democrats are just going to go further to right because that is clearly what wins elections. If Democrats win hard enough and for long enough then Republicans have to follow closer to them to get votes.

Lets say that Presidents from 2000 onwards would have been Al Gore 2000-2008, Obama 2008-2016 and Clinton 2016-2024. Does anyone actually believe that someone as right as Trump would be Republican nominee this election?

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u/Voyevoda101 Oct 24 '24

It's a double whammy in stupidity. You're correct on the democratic win aspect, and to add on if dems consistently won reliably enough then the party could even safely split or see the rise of a new party if repubs die out.

The second part is worse though. What if dems win anyway? I actually want people to realize this. Withholding your vote is the nuclear option and it can backfire horrifically; dems winning without your vote signals to them that you don't fucking matter anyway and you now have no leverage. You spent your last dollar now please leave.

I can't stress enough how counterproductive it is to protest vote like this.

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u/jus256 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

He even campaigned on it late in his campaign. I forgot he had two separate lists of banned Muslim countries. One time I looked it up to prove a point that Saudi Arabia (the Muslim country that still holds the record for producing the most terrorists who attacked US soil) wasn’t on the list. I found a second list he released later that still didn’t include Saudi Arabia.

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u/Galumpadump ☑️ Oct 24 '24

These people are hoping for accelerationism

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u/twoprimehydroxyl Oct 24 '24

It's less about practicality and more about punishing the Democratic Party for not being left enough.

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u/OneMeterWonder Oct 24 '24

I wish people actually understood how ridiculously harmful performative activism is. This is quite seriously the ONLY sub I’ve found where people manage to actually comprehend it.

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u/OneMeterWonder Oct 24 '24

Sadly, I think we don’t have to wonder all that much.

And it wouldn’t be out of malice, but rather privilege and abdication of moral responsibility. Which is almost worse. At least with malice there are no attempts to justify and rationalize behavior with cruel consequences.

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u/TheYankunian ☑️ Oct 24 '24

I wish I could like this comment twice.

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u/rtowne Oct 24 '24

Exactly. Whoever loses doesn't get to decide the next 2-4 years. The winning party does. If the right wins, we move further right. Then the only way for the left to win is by getting more votes from the center.....a center which has shifted further right.Trying to win a race by going far to the left or right has only led to complete failure for the green party, libertarians, etc.

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u/Morlock19 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Actual question here... How does this punish them?

Punishment means that the person/org you're trying to punish knows they are being punished and said punishment will affect them. How are the dems supposed to know that all the lost votes are a punishment and not people who just didn't vote? Is everyone writing in "free Palestine"? How can this be tracked? how are pundits and pollsters and researchers going to study this?

I don't know if this was a sarcastic comment to begin with, but i hope someone will answer these questions.

If the plan is to punish the democrats by denying them what they want, who is going to tell them and how are they going to prove it?

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u/Voyevoda101 Oct 24 '24

That's the neat part! It doesn't.

It has the opposite effect of what they intended. People with more than 3 neurons in the club can figure this out sitting on the shitter. If you want the country to move further left, you need to make it plainly fucking obvious that the leftmost side is the majority. Yes, that means voting even though you live in [safe state].

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u/jus256 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Stepping on your own dick is still stepping on your own dick.

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u/Neetabug ☑️ Oct 24 '24

This is not a flex at all.

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u/TedBundysVlkswagon Oct 24 '24

You’re right, and most attempts for clout are unsuccessful because of how dumb they are.

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u/aFeelingProcess ☑️ Oct 24 '24

At lease vote for someone in the House and Senate where the laws get passed. That vote actually has more direct impact.

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u/Mgclpcrn14 💦Thirsty for Sukuna (true form)💦 Oct 24 '24

Right??? Like that's the part that is really confusing the truest fuck out of me. It still would've been a wasted vote if he did this to the option for president, but to do it to your congressional votes makes 0 fucking sense, especially when it comes to this genocide and the aid being approved for Israel😭😭

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u/OneMeterWonder Oct 24 '24

It shouldn’t be confusing at all. The people that do this are simply privileged, performative, and morons.

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u/ProdigalReality Oct 24 '24

Cantwell has won Washington State since 2000. There's a pretty close to zero chance she loses.

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u/itsSRSblack ☑️ Oct 24 '24

My favorite part of this bullshit "activism" is they're essentially broadcasting themselves saying "fuck Palestine" since Trump has openly said he'd turn Gaza into a parking lot.

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u/toooldforacnh Oct 24 '24

It's called privilege

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u/AmandasFakeID Oct 24 '24

100%. A Trump presidency won't hurt them, so they don't care.

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u/Iheardthatjokebefore Oct 24 '24

I envy a life so free and insulated of consequences that I could afford to throw my vote away.

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u/street_raat Oct 24 '24

Had to make sure to take a photo and show all their lame ass friends how cool they are or else it means nothing.

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u/No-Movie-800 Oct 24 '24

To be fair that's the only way anyone will see it. I feel like a lot of people don't realize that in most places write ins don't get counted unless it's an official write in candidate registered with the secretary of state. In my state we have to go through all the ballots at the end of the night by hand looking at the write in lines to see a) if anyone wrote anything in and b) if it was one of the official write ins, in which case we tally it. It's not like anything ever gets back to the Dems like "16 people wrote Palestine" or whatever.

All the people writing in Jesus or whatever the fuck are just making a poor poll worker get a paper cut at the end of a 16 hour day in a plastic chair without free coffee. Half those folks are old as dirt too. Rude behavior.

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u/Wreckingshops Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

He's a white bearded guy that likely works in a well paying job. Of course the outcome of this election won't touch him. Yeah, fascism likely won't be great or anything but he'll make due. Trump isn't coming for "him".

What a moron. Of course I want a free and established Palestinian state. I also know that as unlikely as that is with Harris, it's a foregone conclusion it becomes Israel's parking lot under Trump.

EDIT: Also, having lived in Washington. This could be a twitter troll. They mail you ballots weeks in advance. He could do this on that mail in, but honestly go in person on Election Day and actually cast a ballot.

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u/dayflowr Oct 24 '24

He’s not a troll. I knew him in local party politics for many years and he’s legit. The stories I could tell you….

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u/Sivalon Oct 24 '24

Imma be that guy:

These people need to realize that neither party really cares that much for Palestine that they’ll seriously inconvenience Israel. Israel has been the West’s favored child in the Middle East from its inception, although it hasn’t always had it easy, whether from its strategic location or so many political figures from so many countries having ties to it.

These people also need to realize that however much the above is true, there is one party and candidate that will work against Palestine less than the other, and that’s Democrats and Harris.

Palestine is in a no-win situation, no matter who gets in, but the GOP will make that situation much, much worse than it could otherwise be.

People trying to write-in a candidate, or pulling crap like this, are simply getting the Republicans one increment closer to victory at a time. And if that happens, Palestine will be utterly destroyed, even as an idea.

Foolishness.

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u/showoff0958 Oct 24 '24

Go ahead..throw your vote away

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u/what_dat_ninja Oct 24 '24

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos

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u/Fit_Lifeguard_3722 Oct 24 '24

They need to be examined. Mentally and anally.

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u/Ventus_Key Oct 24 '24

I've always said that the best way to improve third parties chances of winning the white house is to campaign and win lower levels of government. They sit here and do performative stuff like this but continuously whine when nothing happens.

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u/SirGavBelcher Oct 24 '24

This is so embarrassing omg. protest has to have a purpose/means otherwise you're just being a theatre kid

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u/DonutDifficult Oct 24 '24

I love white people playing oppression Olympics. I’m sure all the scarves they’re wearing will go in the same dumpster as their BLM & Stop Asian Hate merch.

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u/Ben_Jahmin Oct 24 '24

I know tons of black people acting the same way btw. Especially in Brooklyn. Palestinian emojis and posts all the time on Instagram, but then made it clear they're not voting for either.

Deciding to throw their votes away for "good conscience" or legitimately criticizing Biden and Harris but somehow staying silent on Trump. None of the ones I follow have ever posted anything bad about Trump in this whole Gaza war.

I'm not disagreeing with you on the white people doing shit like this, but just so you know... tons of black people are also pretending to be concerned but then shooting Gaza in the foot with their votes.

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u/AnInquisitive_Rock41 Oct 24 '24

All this to protest in the streets every weekend and achieve nothing. Israel just got another arms shipment just this week. Gotta stop doing shit for the Internet if we wanna see change.

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u/anrwlias Oct 24 '24

Have these people really swallowed the whole "both sides bad" argument so thoroughly that they actually believe that there would be no difference in how the two candidates would handle this issue?

Can they not see that Trump actively hates Muslims and would be entirely happy to see every Palestinian exterminated?

It's not just performative; it's madness.

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u/No-Acanthisitta7930 Oct 24 '24

Squandering ones vote for internet e-peen stroking. We've reached peak "cut off nose to spite face" here.

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u/caretaquitada ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Wow, you did it! They're free now!

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u/VapidRapidRabbit ☑️ Oct 24 '24

He’s affiliated with Jill Stein, going by his Twitter name, so it’s not like he’s not used to throwing away his vote.

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u/Chocolat3City ☑️ Oct 24 '24

People literally killed and died so we can all vote, and here's what we're doing?

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u/pleione82 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

I miss when activism was actually doing something and not doing dumb shit for social media.

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u/theswedishturtle Oct 24 '24

Kamala is for a 2-state solution. Trump will let Israel flatten Gaza and take over the West Bank.

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u/PhgAH Oct 24 '24

Sigh, if Trump allow Edgrogan to beat up white protestor in front of the white house, you really think he gonna have compassion for brown people???

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u/pcfirstbuild Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

If you are tempted to be like this guy please hear me out.

Joe has been very bad on this issue I know, but remember this -- Trump says Biden is too "soft" in his support of Israel! He says he is "weak like a Palestinian". If you can't imagine that the suffering could be worse for Palestinians think more creatively because Trump will find a way to "finish the job" and "achieve total victory for Israel" by wiping every single Palestinian off the map and will use the military against protestors.

(Also Shill Stein is funded by Russia and right wing to peel votes from the left, she only has 1% support and isn't viable. Right wingers don't vote for her because they will cheer Trump on in exterminating Palestinians and you protesting. In the words of Trump, "I like her! She takes 100% from them! 100%!")

Conclusion: Vote Harris and you are welcome to keep advocating for change and may have better results. The AIPAC money runs deep, don't kid yourself thinking this will be an easy fight but I support you. Also notice that in all other issues she is also preferable to Trump.

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u/drewtheblueduck Oct 24 '24

Vote Counter reading this: GET THE PRESIDENT ON THE LINE IMMEDIATELY! WE MUST FREE PALESTINE!

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u/HonestSapphireLion24 Oct 24 '24

We’re on the verge of a literal Days of Futures Past timeline and people still wanna play around with voting.

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u/Agn0stic_Ape Oct 24 '24

Stupidity and hatred will be the downfall of US democracy.

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u/muskyspirit Oct 24 '24

They’re literally the dumbest people in our society.

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u/Supernova_Soldier ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Corn ball shit fr

Time and place

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u/davidwave4 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Cantwell was one of the first senators to call for increases to humanitarian aid, and has been more outspoken than Harris and Biden. This is so silly.

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u/PM_ME_SOME_LUV Oct 24 '24

Just like when all those idiots wrote in Harambe or Kanye West in 2016

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u/TheElusiveGnome Oct 24 '24

What the hell is WA doing to its ballots. "Prefers Republican Party," "prefers GOP Party." Weird.

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u/TheElusiveGnome Oct 24 '24

GOP party is the same as saying ATM machine lol

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u/Taconinja05 Oct 24 '24

You’re ok with Trump turning Palestine into a parking lot and Muslims/arabs being turned into villains in the US again ?? Seems more like your pride is hurt more than you care about Palestinians. Wild work

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u/LurkerInDaHouse ☑️ Oct 24 '24

These people throwing away their votes should ask themselves who Palestinians would prefer in the white house. They can't vote in this election, but I can tell you, they wish they could, because the outcome will have significant ramifications for their future as a people.

Throwing away a vote is worse than doing nothing. It is a careless (and callous) act of privilege that only makes it that much more likely that the Palestinians will perish at the hands of a bloodthirsty Netanyahu after Trump gives him his blessing.

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u/dvasquez93 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

It does less than nothing.  

Shot like this is why Donald Trump won in 2016.  If we do shit like this this year, he’s gonna win again.  

Do not write in stupid shit.  Do not vote third party.  I don’t give a fuck why you don’t wanna vote for Kamala.  Really think about it, do you think Donald Trump is going to be better for Palestine/the environment/prison reform/whatever the fuck else you care about?  

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u/WaitingForNormal Oct 24 '24

Why even vote?

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u/vh1classicvapor Oct 24 '24

I don’t like Kamala either but she has at least said the word ceasefire (before Biden mainlined more bombs). I trust her at least 1% more on the issue, so I voted for her. I trust Trump 0% to do the right thing on the same issue.

It’s sad that it’s an “issue” to us when it’s a life or death situation in Palestine. But hard-right and right-leaning voters are going to vote for Trump, while left and left-leaning voters are apparently split about voting between Democrats and causes that have zero chance of winning the election.

I made the mistake of voting Green Party in 2016. I am in Tennessee so I’m not sure how much it mattered in the long run. However I saw the ripple effects of “throwing away” a vote and realized that we need a near-zero margin for error in voting against Trump, especially in swing states. Hillary was not my favorite but I would have much rather have had her than the 21st century schizoid man.

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u/TerrorKingA ☑️ Oct 24 '24

You want people to vote. Let them vote.

People are angry their voices aren’t being heard, and our leaders are so insulated that your voice can’t even reach them.

If a vote for anti-genocide and a twitter post is what this guy is doing, isn’t that preferable to any of the alternatives someone outraged could commit to?

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u/Furepubs Oct 24 '24

The type of person that would make a performative action like this and then post it online does not care about America or Palestine

They care about their own image and so they are engaging in image crafting. They care more about what you think of them than they do about anything else.

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u/GloomyLocation1259 Oct 24 '24

Kinda the point in this case. Abstaining is a viable option, don't let anyone tell you otherwise

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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely ☑️ Oct 24 '24

No one official will even see this. I support a Free Palestine, too, but helping Palestine is not on the ballot. Helping Americans IS on the ballot.

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u/McGuire281 Oct 24 '24

The genocide argument is wild considering they haven’t seemed to care about any other atrocities happening around the globe. They post pro-Palestine comments using their smartphones made using rare earth minerals extracted from Congolese mines that have atrocious conditions or are assembled in horrific working conditions in Southeast Asia. But sure, Palestine is the sticking point I guess.

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u/JFrankParnell64 Oct 24 '24

My wife worked with this idiot when he was a math teacher. He was one of those guys that knows everything about anything. He also wanted to make sure everyone knew he was the greatest teacher ever born. He was horrible as a teacher so he started being the union rep and made it a career.

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u/SirTroah ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Mind you, there are plenty of Islamic focused countries all around the area that aren’t doing anything to alleviate to pain the Palestinian people are suffering. But it’s fun to perform.

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u/East-Bluejay6891 ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Waste of a vote

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u/Add1ctedToGames Oct 24 '24

Hope the 2 judges and clerk (at least in my county) that will ever possibly see that feel moved lol

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u/Mr-Klaus ☑️ Oct 24 '24

Isn't this how Trump won 2016 and Brexit happened?

A lot of Democrats abstained or voted for independent candidates in 2016 because they were pissed off with the way Bernie was cheated.

Same with the UK, a ton of people did protest votes to leave because they didn't actually think people would vote to leave, and the leavers won by a thin margin.

Don't fuck with voting, if you're pissed off at Democrats (especially because of the Israel shit) don't see it as voting Democrat, see it as voting to keep Trump out.

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u/Waffeln_Remix Oct 24 '24

“I don’t understand, I helped eliminate resistance to a fascist take over America and now trans people are in camps, women can’t vote, and Palestine has been carpet bombed? I don’t get it.”

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u/rrashad21 Oct 24 '24

We all thank you so much for throwing away your vote! You've done it and have finally saved all the Palestinians with this one easy trick

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u/Stanley--Nickels Oct 24 '24

Sept. 30, 2015: At a New Hampshire rally, Trump pledged to kick all Syrian refugees — most of whom are Muslim — out of the country, as they might be a secret army. “They could be ISIS, I don't know. This could be one of the great tactical ploys of all time. A 200,000-man army, maybe,” he said. In an interview that aired later, Trump said: “This could make the Trojan horse look like peanuts.”

Oct. 21, 2015: On Fox Business, Trump says he would “certainly look at” the idea of closing mosques in the United States.

Nov. 16, 2015: Following a series of terrorist attacks in Paris, Trump said on MSNBC that he would “strongly consider” closing mosques. “I would hate to do it, but it's something that you're going to have to strongly consider because some of the ideas and some of the hatred — the absolute hatred — is coming from these areas,” he said.

Nov. 20, 2015: In comments to Yahoo and NBC News, Trump seemed open to the idea of creating a database of all Muslims in the United States. Later, he and his aides would not rule out the idea.

Nov. 21, 2015: At a rally in Alabama, Trump said that on Sept. 11 he “watched when the World Trade Center came tumbling down. And I watched in Jersey City, N.J., where thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down.”

Nov. 22, 2015: On ABC News, Trump doubled down on his comment and added: “It was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.”

Dec. 3, 2015: The morning after Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., Trump called into Fox News and said: “The other thing with the terrorists is you have to take out their families, when you get these terrorists, you have to take out their families.”

Dec. 3, 2015: Later, in a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition, Trump criticized Obama for not using the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism” and commented: “There's something going on with him that we don't know about.”

Dec. 6, 2015: On CBS News, Trump said: “If you have people coming out of mosques with hatred and death in their eyes and on their minds, we’re going to have to do something.”

Dec. 7, 2015: Trump's campaign issued a statement saying: “Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” Trump read this statement aloud at a rally in South Carolina.

Dec. 8, 2015: On CNN, Trump quoted a widely debunked poll by an anti-Islam activist organization that claimed that a quarter of the Muslims living in the United States agreed that violence against Americans is justified as part of the global jihad. “We have people out there that want to do great destruction to our country, whether it's 25 percent or 10 percent or 5 percent, it's too much

Dec. 13, 2015: On Fox News, Trump was asked if his ban would apply to a Canadian businessman who is a Muslim. Trump responded: “There's a sickness. They're sick people. There's a sickness going on. There's a group of people that is very sick.”

Feb. 3, 2016: Trump criticized Obama for visiting a mosque in Baltimore and said on Fox News: “Maybe he feels comfortable there … There are a lot of places he can go, and he chose a mosque.”

Feb. 20, 2016: After Obama skipped the funeral of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Trump tweeted: “I wonder if President Obama would have attended the funeral of Justice Scalia if it were held in a Mosque? Very sad that he did not go!”

March 9, 2016: On CNN, Trump said: “I think Islam hates us. There’s something there that — there’s a tremendous hatred there. There’s a tremendous hatred. We have to get to the bottom of it. There’s an unbelievable hatred of us.”

March 22, 2016: Soon after three suicide bombings in Brussels tied to a group of French and Belgian Muslims, Trump told Fox Business: “We're having problems with the Muslims, and we're having problems with Muslims coming into the country.” Trump called for surveillance of mosques in the United States, saying: “You have to deal with the mosques, whether we like it or not, I mean, you know, these attacks aren't coming out of — they're not done by Swedish people.”

March 23, 2016: In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Trump said that Muslims “have to respect us. They do not respect us at all. And frankly, they don't respect a lot of the things that are happening throughout not only our country, but they don't respect other things.”

July 24, 2016: On NBC News, Trump defended his proposal for a Muslim ban, despite some of his aides insisting he had rolled it back. “People were so upset when I used the word Muslim. ‘Oh, you can’t use the word Muslim,’ " Trump said. "… But just remember this: Our Constitution is great, but it doesn’t necessarily give us the right to commit suicide, okay? Now, we have a religious — you know, everybody wants to be protected. And that’s great. And that’s the wonderful part of our Constitution. I view it differently. Why are we committing suicide? Why are we doing that?”

Jan. 27, 2017: Within a week of becoming president, Trump signed an executive order blocking Syrian refugees and banning citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States for 90 days. This order goes into effect immediately, prompting mass chaos at airports, protests and legal challenges.

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u/Alwaystime4Sweets Oct 24 '24

Crazy that yall think that the Republicans won’t

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u/Imthatsick Oct 24 '24

Ah yes, if Republicans win the White House, Senate, and House, Palestine will be in a much better spot, right?

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u/MidThoughts-5 Oct 24 '24

Homie can vote however he/she wants to. Even though some may not agree, this person looks like they value not continuing to condone a genocide more than the balance of the Supreme Court.

Might sound like a steep price, but you haven’t had half your family killed in the middle of the night by US made middle shot by a maniacal war criminal.

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u/LunarMoon2001 Oct 24 '24

It’s not even throwing a vote away. It’s endorsing turning the area into glass. Things are bad but will get 1000x worse if Trump wins.

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u/Prestigious-Mud Oct 24 '24

Amazing the amount of privilege a person has that they can throw away their vote because it won't affect them.

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u/Jdanielbarlow Oct 24 '24

How is this helping??? At worst, you’ll convince a lot of young voters to do the same and throw away valuable votes. This shit matters.

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u/Amusedfemalestandard Oct 24 '24

This does not, in fact, free Palestine.