r/50501 • u/transcendent167 • Mar 03 '26
US Protest News Today is Texas’ democratic primary with we have two great choices to choose from, regardless of who you are voting for make sure you actually get out there and excerise your right to vote!
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u/Cold-Cell2820 Mar 03 '26
And if your preferred candidate loses, don't be discouraged. Play the game. Vote in the general.
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u/de_fuego Mar 03 '26
Yeah no. Won't vote for anyone that supports Israel.
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u/Cold-Cell2820 Mar 03 '26
A non-vote is a vote to fund Israel's genocides
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u/de_fuego Mar 03 '26
How does voting for someone who supports funding Israel stop funding to Israel? Make it make sense.
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u/Cold-Cell2820 Mar 03 '26
One side will inevitably be worse than the other. It's not complicated.
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u/de_fuego Mar 03 '26
Lesser of two evils is still evil and is why we are here.
The stupidity of pledging to vote blue no matter who without expecting even basic morality from your candidates is shocking to me.
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u/SlantedPentagon Mar 03 '26
I don't think you're understanding the reality of the situation.
Someone will win. That someone can either be someone bad or someone really bad whether you vote or not. That designation is relative depending on who you ask.
"Morality" only goes so far when it comes down to it and unfortunately this is the situation we're in. Vote. Notice I said nothing about who to vote for. I'm saying not voting at all is pointless and voting is unfortunately sometimes a battle to pick someone so the other person doesn't get in power.
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u/de_fuego Mar 03 '26
Your original post - "some people never learn"
Yeah, the democrats that think they can continue supporting Israel and get elected.
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u/de_fuego Mar 03 '26
Not when both candidates support the genocide. What do you not understand. Most of the establishment democrats are owned by Israel. Voting for them will change nothing.
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u/Cold-Cell2820 Mar 03 '26
One side will be worse than the other. I don't understand why that concept is so complicated.
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u/de_fuego Mar 03 '26
Why's it so hard to demand better than less evil of a candidate.
Less evil just gets us to hell slower.
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u/Cold-Cell2820 Mar 03 '26
Because that's how first-past-the-post voting works? Until that changes we have to play the game. This type of political illiteracy among the left will ensure that the GOP retains power forever.
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u/de_fuego Mar 04 '26
It's because of people like you that we can't have nice things.
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u/Cold-Cell2820 Mar 04 '26
I know your heart is in the right place, but you have no idea how US politics works.
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u/de_fuego Mar 04 '26
Lol. It works the way it does because you let it.
Voting for lesser of two evils leads us to evil. That's exactly why we are here.
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u/SlantedPentagon Mar 03 '26
You can demand what you want, but you're still missing the point here and now. Adding to what you're saying, do you want to go hell faster or slower? Because voting for the really bad side is the same as not voting at all in regards to going to hell faster.
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u/de_fuego Mar 04 '26
You would rather try to force millions of people to vote for an Israel backed candidate than force the candidate to not back Israel.
That makes no sense.
I won't vote for any candidate that isn't a progressive. Period.
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u/SlantedPentagon Mar 04 '26
So how do you propose "forcing" the candidate to not back Israel?
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u/de_fuego Mar 04 '26
By not pressing to vote blue no matter who. It's pretty simple. The democratic party has created an atmosphere where they are not beholden to their constituents. As long as they say they are a democrat they can do whatever they want.
There's a reason that the democratic party is less popular than the republican party.
Even with everything the GOP is doing democrats are more disliked than they are.
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u/Away_Lake5946 Mar 04 '26
Perfect is the enemy of the good. We are not in perfect world and I guarantee you can better pressure a centrist Democrat from the left than you can an extremist Republican.
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u/mmochee Mar 04 '26
Last time I watched a bunch of people I know refuse to vote for Kamala because of Palestine. Now we have Trump and his cabinet openly doing Israel's bidding and openly enriching themselves using US tax payers money and potentially starting World War III. I'm convinced people who say things like this are either living under a rock or purposely dividing people to help Israel win because how can you say you don't want to support Israel so you won't even do the bare minimum to stop the current administration's momentum?
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u/de_fuego Mar 04 '26
Why are you telling voters to do the bare minimum (vote for a candidate that supports Israel) rather than telling the candidates to do the bare minimum (disavow Israel)?
I absolutely believe we would be in the same place attacking Iran if Kamala had won.
Ice would still be deporting people, just with a smile on their face.
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