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[Video] Kamala Harris becomes visibly shaken and furious after being called a “right-wing war criminal” (i.imgur.com)

submitted 6 days ago by IndustryStandard@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Geez, calling me a morally bankrupt coward is just a tad bit mean, don't ya know? Also doesn't really address the actual real world we're in where we are voting on an office which is making decisions that go far beyond only the tiny part of the world that is Israel/Palestine.

Like I don't know how naive and narrow minded one has to be to think a world with Trump in charge of the USA is better than the alternative.

Like, obviously, if I could waive a magic wand I'd change a whole fuckpile of stuff about our government and our system of living as a whole. Unfortunately, presumably, much like yourself, I'm not magic.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

A lot of our friends here have only a mass-media understanding of American politics. And given that mass media is utterly terrible, it’s . . . a crooked understanding.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can’t believe you tried to pull the “it’s more important than tiny little Palestine” bullshit. It’s a fucking

GENOCIDE

Kids are dying every day.

Morally bankrupt coward was too kind for the kind of person you actually are.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes I'm a morally bankrupt coward for ... Voting? Being realistic about our world? Caring about more than one thing at a time?

If it wasn't concern trolling and people actually cared about the Palestinians more than some moral superiority complex we would have Harris as president. Instead people were too short sighted or dumb to realize they were being manipulated into giving Trump support by them not voting or voting third party.

So ... Yeah, obviously I think what happened and is happening in Gaza is fucked up. It's a man made famine starving kids, not to mention all the other ways they're dying.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah you sure put pressure on the American government to stop that one by assuring them you’ll still vote for them if they don’t even promise to end funding to a genocide. I’m sorry but any way you slice it to me, this attitude makes you complicit.

[–] LePoisson@lemmy.world -2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you understand how American government works if you think abstaining from voting is pressuring anybody to do anything.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 3 points 5 days ago

I don’t think YOU understand how governments work if you can’t even understand that applying pressure to a government to do something will change their platform during elections. It’s part of why Biden stepped down dude.