I wrote in "Gaza" on the primary, but come november I am 100% sure that I'm gonna be voting D as hard as I can because my partner is trans and I'd rather not be driven from the country by transphobia, thanks.
Criticising the democrats for when they're not good is absolutely valid, but at the same time, get out and vote for them and mobilize as many voters for them as you can, because the difference in outcome between the two parties with legitimate chances of winning is too great to throw away your votes protesting the lesser of two evils. By all means, keep protesting (In other ways, besides the ballot box), but also do your part to make sure that we get the lesser of two evils, not the greater.
Nobody is talking about "criticizing Democrats". We're talking about active censorship of criticism of the Democratic party, because of their support of israel.
When you go on .world you find people not just saying what you are saying, but enthusiastically praising Biden as one of the greatest presidents of all time and lying about him standing up to israel. And that gets upvoted.
Violence against trans individuals has increased under Biden. That isn't because Biden is "tougher on trans issues," it's because the DNC is doing absolutely nothing to prevent the root cause of fascism from rising, which is decaying Capitalism.
Vote for whoever you want, but if you want to protect your partner, you'll likely get best results by living in a blue area of a blue state, regardless of who is in the federal office.
I agree. Let's support Trump, the person who legalised the West Bank occupation.
Holy false dichotomy, Batman!
Holding domestic non-fascist politicians accountable for enabling the war crimes of foreign fascists ≠ supporting domestic fascists.
One of the two is going to win in November and dictate future foreign policy. There are two outcomes, that's literally an actual dichotomy. Your actions regarding the election (personal voting strategy as well as comments that sway the personal voting strategies of others) ultimately support one of those two outcomes. If you get enough people to abstain in protest against Democratic foreign policy, you are increasing the probability of getting Republican foreign policy.
You don't have to support Biden or Trump if genocide is a red line for you.
If you don't vote, it means you are ok with either one and don't care enough either way to go to the ballot.
Not voting it's not a third option, it's a statement that you don't care about either of the two options. Voting a third candidate is instead simply useless and in practice amounts to the same thing as not voting or voting with a blank ballot.
So in practice the options are: voting for the Democrats, voting for the Republicans, doing nothing and being ok with either one winning or leaving the fucking country.
Republicans also support Israel. It's a terrible two party system. I'm not sure why we're pretending there's a difference here.
The difference is Democrats only get mad at Trump for supporting israel.
Just imagine the fury we'd be seeing from liberals if it was orange man at the helm of the Genocide right now.
Probably be seeing the exact same level of protests, but with a different media spin that resonates harder with your implicit biases and fears.
Except none of this is true.
Except they literally stated they're stepping with the Zionist MBFC bot with the election coming up as the reason
They hated him because he told the truth
According to the lemmy dev we've got some fun bot activities going on downvoting my posts
The lemmy.world news mods are absolutely biased, break their own rules blatantly, and clearly support a left/far-left agenda.
That said, it's pretty unnecessary to hide genocide when the ICJ hasn't ruled one occurred yet.
What do you mean that Lemmy.world is now "far-left?" They've always been extremely liberal, not left.
Additionally, we don't need to wait on the ICJ to see 200,000 dead Palestinians.
Please read more carefully. I did not say "is now..." and the civilian casualty count is nowhere near 200k but rather closer to 40k.
Edit: But I also agree they are liberal too.
Liberal Zionism is not left. Right-wing or far-right is where it is.
Not surprising a Zionist would show up to claim there's no Genocide and sprinkle in more disinformation.
Glad people is realizing how lw mods are and act.
Basically liberals and Zionists
Those left on Lemmy.world either deny it or enjoy it.
