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So how do you feel watching Trump do worse in full view?
Worse for you, objectively the immediate situation in Gaza is better, our children are no longer being slaughtered inn the hundreds daily. They're restoring and rebuilding some form of daily life, they have cafes running and they're watching the Palestine team compete in the Arab cup. Things that seemed unimaginable when Biden was greenlighting 2,000 lbs bombs on tents while licking ice cream.
Biden is our Hitler, Trump is yours, and if you were one of the people who saw what Biden was doing in Gaza and decided Kamala promising the most lethal military deserved your vote, you deserve Trump and I feel no empathy for you.
If you refused to vote for both evils, I respect you and expect you to stand aside me when the revolution begins. I expect liberals to side with maga in a true revolution, and they'll label is communist islamist extremist terrorists for disrupting their comfortable daily life at the very top of society.
Propaganda is a powerful tool, especially in the hands of someone skilled. I suspect you’re that skilled artisan of the dark art itself.
The situation is not better, objectively or otherwise. There is no Gaza ceasefire, only a lie. People are still being slaughtered and starved and allowed to die. Women are still being raped. Men are still being bulldozed and bombed. Children are still being executed.
Spare me your indignant speech and look closely at your own actions.
I'm Palestinian. The ceasefire is not real. People are still being slaughtered.
Not nearly at the same rate as under Biden. It is objectively better. We celebrated Christmas in Bethlehem for the first time this year since the genocide began.
Israel is still a genocidal expantionist ethno supremacist fascist state that wants to eliminate all Palestinians and has eyes on Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The situation in gaza today is objectively better.
You don't get to simply dismiss facts as "propaganda". The genocide is still going, but the ovens were turned off, and you're telling me I should I have voted for the candidate that promised to keep fueling the oven because Trump is worse for you.
I agree, he is worse for you, and while I didn't vote for him, I choose the collapse of the American empire over the all out accelerated genocide of my people that a healthy American empire can afford to fund.
And I don't feel empathy for you for having to live through the death of your empire, because we told you loudly to help us and you called our genocide the lesser evil. You've destroyed all of countries and murdered millions of our people and you honor your war criminals and put them on a pedestal.
I feel bad for my family and friends who are in ice detention, and I blame those like you without a backbone that insisted the champion of genocide was the only other option.
First they came for the communists and all that. You didn't help us, and you're bitching at us for not voting to continue our extermination to save your cushy lifestyle at the very top of the world.
Propaganda isn't an inherently bad word, by the way. It's not a "dark art", it can be done through the use of only facts, as I'm doing, and you have no chance of defeating fascism if you don't also participate in positive propaganda. You have to unlearn colonial terms and learn the true meaning of words, and read some books on how to influence public opinion with facts, then come back and call it a dark art as if it's a clever insult.
That second line tells me I can ignore you and miss nothing.
What a shit take on a horrid situation. Fuck off, MAGA.
I'm not maga. You're a moron.
Ignore, like you've ignored the pleas of every person your country destroyed because we're subhuman to you.
Ignore, because it's easier than facing the fact that you support Nazis.
Trump is worst for you, because he's ruining America. He's a moron, he's a racist, he's everything you soulless selfish Americans deserve.
The full view thing is ... interesting, unique in my experience. It's one of the few "good" things about the recent unpleasantness. Hopefully all this blatant graft, corruption and just plain evil in clear view leads to some reforms.
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