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Fucking wild to me that, even when abandoning Palestine didn’t work and the post mortem showed it definitely hurt Harris’ turnout, libs are still doubling down on it and kicking the people affected by it in the face.
But hey, maybe “shut up the ~~rich people’s yacht fund~~ economy is fine” will resonate more in 2028.
Libs really aren’t doubling down on it. The people who have infiltrated the libs to keep the focus on smashing the democrats are focusing on it, as a distraction, so the United States crumbles and dies.
Basically, the “woke” have been tricked into eating themselves, which is what we all though would happen to the right wing… but it turns out they are more strategic than we thought.
Maybe you think I'm one of those. I think the Democratic Party is a spent force, and we should be organizing from the grass roots like Occupy and BLM, and like groups outside the US such as Podemos in Spain. Or we can instead spend our effort trying to overcome the inertia of the dead hand of the DNC. But I think that has as much likelihood of success as reanimating a long-buried corpse.
I think the left is just dead. Sadly.
When a topic is obviously at best zero sum ( trump's position on Palestine will not improve thier lives/survival), it's baffling that people aren't ready to address crowning Mr anti abortion, anti immigrant, territorial annexer, foreign authoritarian appeaser, felon.
People clearly said "meh the raids won't come for me", and never functionally cared about Palestine at all. It was performative. They will have zero advocacy lane with trump, where as Harris was minimal, but existing.
No one gets to protest trump's inauguration or actions if they didn't take the functional steps to avoid him. if they did, see you there.
Yeah, my wife's Palestinian, so I'm well-attuned to hypocritical expressions of support. Those knobheads never really gave a shit about the people of Gaza, it was all another Republican-driven learned-helplessness narrative that Democrats had to be perfect in every regard, but Trump could be an evil piece of shit with no consequences.
Very well put
Whenever people do get out and protest, there are others proposing rules about how they are allowed to do it. Be careful not to be one of those people.
Palestine is less than 1% of an issue
You think that's what decided the election you're delusional