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      I mean you’re right but which racists?

      Latinos had record low turnout for democrats. Likely because “ICE bill” was a backpedal from DACA. Muslims have a strong presence in the midwest, I can’t imagine gaza was not the driver for low dem turnout there.

      There’s a good argument to be made that letting in bigots into the dems big tent led to low turnouts in targeted demographics while making republican lies seem more credulous to the bigots dems were trying to recruit, leading to israel defenders and immigration racists not voting or voting trump.

      We simply might be in the information landscape where there’s more to gain from opposing republican policies people agree with as it would help discredit republicans.

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      Yah, I was so racist I voted for a Latino woman on the PSL ticket.

      I’m not voting for genocide. Simple as. A lot of people apparently felt the same. Pull your collective heads out of your asses and start running candidates that are worth a damn.

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        Sorry, that was flippant. Let me expound a little.

        I’m a first past the post voting system, like ours, majority wins. So when you don’t vote, or you vote for a candidate that can win like a third party, you’re reducing the amount each real candidate needs to win by half a vote.

        So you actually voted for TWO genocide supporting candidates. You supported them both. And in doing so, you fucked your neighbors. Idiot.

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            12 days ago

            My point is that you did.

            Hate the system all you like. A vote isn’t support of a candidate. It’s a hit to their opposition. You hit no one. You supported two genocidal candidates.

            The only way to avoid that is to leave this society. Until then, you’re part of it.

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                Ad hominem. Explain to me how, in a first pasr the post system with only two viable candidates, your lack of a vote helped Palestinians.

                Show me the line of logic. I’m happy to change my mind.

                But as I understand it, having looked at the math, failing to vote does nothing but support both candidates by reducing the total number of votes they both need. You gave half your vote to each one of the candidates.

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                11 days ago

                You care more about perceived moral correctness for yourself than actually helping Palestinians.

                More children died because of your inability to work with what we have. Congratulations, murderer.

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            12 days ago

            I’m what world did I say it was a good thing? You can hate something and still accept that you’re trapped it in.

            I can’t abide you people who just roll over and do nothing in the face of difficulty.

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        well good thing the genocide stopped huh thanks to your vote i guess