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Epstein files: FBI memo says Israel ‘compromised’ Trump, Epstein had Mossad ties
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So, good job to those of you who voted for trump because Kamala was pro-Isreal.
You voted for the guy who's even MORE pro-Isreal, AND now we're getting murdered in the streets.
We've always told you they are both the same, both shit. Just one is a lot worse. Harm reduction is the name of the game.
Which ignores that these democrats were nevrer going to keep the fascists out. They are controlled opposition and everyone that doesn't have shit for brains knows it.
Good concept but not everyone is smart enough to see it. And stupid people outnumber smart people by the masses.
Harm reduction is taking the street and preventing these fascists to do any further damage, not voting the lesser evil villain between two corrupted parties until shit inevitably gets worst.
A slow loss is still a loss.
Only stupid people convince themselves that it's somehow a win.
Why don't democrats nominate candidates that actually care about the working class instead of lesser evil establishment puppets?
This time: no primary Last time: no clue Previous time: internal backstabbing
There never were that many of those people. Kamala lost this one entirely on her own, with a lackluster platform and campaign. Not having an open primary of course didn't help, either. Democrats suck right now, I'm sorry to say. Of course that's going to depress turnout.
And don't point fingers at me, I did what I could. But you should know shaming people into voting for you has never ever worked
There weren't many, but they were very noisy useful idiots who convinced some other idiots to not vote because "Democrats are bad for Palestine, Trump will be better".
Were there? I saw people saying there was functionally no difference, but not that he was better.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michigan-some-arab-american-voters-revisit-trump-support-after-gaza-take-over-comments/
Not hard to find examples honestly
You're saying we should blame brown people for Trump? I suppose its lucky for you he's rounding them all up and making them disappear so they shouldn't cause you or Israel any problems next election.
Sorry, your strawman is in another castle.
...IDK, the sentiment in the article doesn't strike me as disappointment, just resignation. More "it is what it is" than the leopard-faces moments you see from, eg., Miami Cubans. Even the woman who voted for him sounds more like she rolled the dice than she actually thought he would help.
That's a very unique interpretation of the article.
Either way, fuck Israel.
The previous administration who kamala harris was the vice president of allowed and helped israel fascist government to perpetrate a genocide where thousand kids got murdered are still getting murdered to this day
https://lemmy.ml/post/42477224
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-military-reported-accept-death-toll-around-70000-gaza-2026-01-30/
Israel military recently confirmed the death tool since 2023 at 70.000 casualties.
I doubt many people here on lemmy voted for trump, these who didn't vote red or blue probably voted for third parties or did something more useful than voting to try to stop the genocide.
The excuse is the same: 'i had no choice lolololollll'
~~Say the line, Bart!~~ OOPS, I initially misread your post, I thought you were yelling at people who voted for neither Harris nor Trump as a principled anti-Israel position, not people who voted for Trump for supposedly being the lesser pro-Israel candidate. Obviously I didn't vote for Trump, and obviously fuck Trump and his supporters and voters.
Gonna leave the quote tho because it's always One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This-o-clock.
— Omar El-Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, correction mine.
I mean, the protest non-voters are also fucking morons. But yes, Trump voters especially.
Ah yes, thank you for giving me a second chance to correctly apply this quote:
— Omar El-Akkad, One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, correction mine.
Uh huh
So it’s actually less damning for the soul to vote neither.. because you have no choice in the matter to begin with. It’s a bullshit facade. Contribute to lesser evil or more evil. How about don’t contribute and just let them roll over you because ultimately it mean death anyways but at least this way it’s better for your soul because you didn’t partake in any evil. Sort of like “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” but since we’re all going to hell anyways at least you didn’t pave the road there.
I am not saying to just let them roll over us. Do anything else. Voting is a form of letting them roll over us, it's just the version of getting rolled that lets you feel better than everyone else and serves as a pressure valve for righteous proletarian fury.
Hey buddy I’m agreeing with you 100% I’m not saying you have a choice but to LET them roll over you. It’s a non choice. It’s gonna happen. So this way you still have some dignity. “You’re not firing me, I’m quitting.”
Okay fine, but we can fight in ways that are outside of voting. 🙂
Woah buddy, are you calling for some kind of vigilantism? .. you son of a bitch, I’m in.
So you say fuck trump and then let him win because both candidates are pro israel?
That’s how they get you. “Oh atleast I’m picking the lesser evil.” Thats like going to hell but with extra steps. So you can feel self righteous while going there.
Ok so how is this trump term going? Was it the right choice?
It's so weird how so many people just can't admit to being wrong.
Buddy I'm just some dude with zero power and zero ability to individually change the trajectory of this fascist country. I didn't let these fuckers do shit. The capitalist class is fully culpable for their own crimes.
And also what part of "...moral prohibition on siding with
ANY
administration that endorses
GENOCIDE
..." is unclear to you?
Like one simply cannot do a genocide and ever expect literally any goodwill from me ever again, certainly not a vote, but I wouldn't even piss on these fucks if they were on fire. And I'm not even the teeniest tiniest bit sorry if "I unconditionally refuse to support genocidaires" is a controversial opinion to you, and I literally never will be. Fuck Trump, fuck Harris, fuck Biden, fuck Obama, fuck Bush, fuck Clinton, and fuck every other president, and fuck the whole the goddamn
settler project for the rest of fucking time.
So you are ok with whatever ice is doing? Cause you were gonna get genocide no matter what, now you got ice on top of it.
Of course I'm not okay with what ICE is doing! Biden and Obama were doing ICE too, and they would have done it just as hard as Trump, just in "norm-preserving" ways. And if Harris was elected, vote-Blue-no-matter-who liberals wouldn't fucking care because they don't want to abolish ICE.
Bullshit. No way it would have been this bad.
Don't let them divide us. Treat each other with kindness—that's how we resist. Throughout history, they have thrived by pitting people against each other. They enslaved populations, displaced indigenous peoples, and extracted wealth for centuries. Be it zionist USSR, be it colonial Britain, all of them built wealth paid with blood by the people.
The founding of Israel shows how this pattern continued after WWII. David Ben-Gurion declared independence as the British Mandate ended, following the UN's partition plan. It immediately sparked the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Those in power benefit when we're divided by ethnicity, religion, or nationality. When we fight each other, we're easier to control. Our unity is their greatest threat. Stand together, reject division. In the end, they will be hunted down and held accountable, although the atrocities they committed will never be paid for at its fullest.
The world ruling elites are the same club that has been ruling over nations for many, many, many years.
Is that em-dash AI generated?
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I want the thickest possible wall between me and the genocide supporters. Like of course, within the resistance I want to unite and not be divisive, but if we allow genocide supporters into the movement then it ain't worth shit.
No kindness for monsters, and we need to be firm with pulling people away from falling in line with the monsters.