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US: Muslim groups urge voters to back Jill Stein, Cornel West or other pro-Palestine candidates
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We should give trump another turn… that’ll be good for Muslims I bet.
Hey, bud, I'm betting the actual Muslims who are affected probably have a better grasp of the situation and their values and associated risks/benefits behind their own advocacy and politics than your (presumably highly privileged) disconnected-from-their-struggle self; and inserting yourself to belittle them as if you know better than they theymselfs what's 'good for them,' is a very chauvinist and colonialist outlook and a reinforcement of white supremacist norms and attitudes. You should try listening rather than projecting and belittling.
None of that has anything to do with it.
This is the issue at hand: https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo
There's a legitimate mathematical limitation on 3rd parties under first past the post voting, the way America does elections. Until we get ranked choice voting and the ability to vote intelligently that it would unlock, failing to vote for Kamala is voting for trump.
By that same logic a vote for Harris is a vote against Jill Stein or Cornel West. -I actually like the Green Party, the candidate, and associated policy I'm voting for. –If all you're concerned about is voting against Trump, then can you honestly argue that you actually like Harris? -I'm betting your answer is 'no' seeing that out of ~12 candidates she ranked somewhere behind a wet-blanket in the 2020 Democrat primaries.