assassin_aragorn

joined 2 years ago
[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

And look how far that went. How Bernie was still unable to turn out massive numbers of young people.

It's absolutely incorrect to say that voters are blameless. Bernie had a platform that was the dream for young people, and they didn't show up -- and I say that as someone who was 24 at the time and did vote for him in the primary.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

And then Democrats convinced Biden to not run for a second term. Sounds like the party did in fact listen to the voters' will, and that's being reflected in the excitement that we're seeing across the board.

And you know what? I wish Republicans made backroom deals. I wish they recognized Trump was a significant threat and aligned to go against him.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder actually how badly this'll backfire. Students are inevitably going to ask their teachers why death penalties exist or other things like this.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know that'll never happen. That's why I said it's an ideal that won't happen. What I'm talking about is picking the candidate who'll kill fewer Palestinians and may listen to reason, over the one who'll crush any dissent over the war and urge Netanyahu to continue.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This isn't about Biden or Trump, at least not directly. This is about trying to save as many Palestinian lives as possible, assuming you actually care about them and aren't just using them for political points.

The ideal situation is that the war ends and Israel completely fucks off. But the ideal solution is not a viable option currently. One candidate is keeping the status quo while criticizing Israel, or and the other candidate wants to intensifying the bombings and attacks on civilians and praises Israel.

Forget the names behind the candidates. Are you truly telling me that there's no difference between these two candidates, and that one option does not kill countless more Palestinians than the other option?

Yep. A Tankie is someone who claims to be leftist but then defends all actions by governments and countries who claim to be leftist too.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah they're fucked. New moderation will never work if the users don't support it. And judging from the comments, they definitely don't support it.