• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    "Alawieh couldn’t bring himself to vote for Trump; he voted for Harris. But he didn’t necessarily want her to win either. “I wanted her to beat Trump, but Harris winning would mean my family stays in the same nightmare we’ve come to know. Trump winning makes that nightmare more uncertain, and the ways it will harm my family less clear. But what is clear is that the U.S. government, whether Democrat or Republican, will keep sending weapons to Benjamin Netanyahu illegally. That’s what I have a problem with.”

    … Jesus fucking Christ guy… For being involved in politics you have to understand there are 3 things you cannot do no matter what: you cannot change military spending, the MIC won a long time ago. You cannot stop our addiction to Israel. You cannot touch the billionaire class.

    Those things have proven to be impossible. Hell will have, first come to even exist, and then freeze over before those things happen… But sure, you have to try, I get it. Just now everyone suffers for it. :/

    • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      Er, he voted for Harris? I’m pretty sure he understands the situation.

      But even those who didn’t… I can understand why someone being repeatedly punched in the stomach would have difficulty deciding who to call their leader between the person punching them and the person off to the side jumping up and down saying “Ooh… let ME have a turn!” They know that voting for a third party will still end up with one of these two punching them, so the reasoning shifts a bit.