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‘I hate Democrats, but I love Abdul’: voters who left over Gaza return for progressive push
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2026
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I do think it's a bit ludicrous that much conflict in the Threadiverse stems from discussions about Israel and Palestine when the vast majority of users are pro-Palestine in one form or another, merely having differing views in the context of being pro-Palestine.
Far less divides the users here than many might think. People letting those differences get to their heads and not being willing to engage with each other civilly is harming the platform.
Yeah, I have a lot of similar interactions in other topics too here. I agree with the mainstream anti-AI opinion, but I do so in a way many people dislike. From My point of view I hate use of AI for one more reason in addition to the usual ones, but other people think I'm defending AI because I won't play the Red vs Blue game.
People want to sort the entire world into the good team and the bad team, and I'm sick of it. In any given situation, there are probably at least 4 different sides with their own agendas of varying compatibility.
If anything, it's comments and users like the one you're replying to that I hold chiefly responsible.
It can usually be measured by how much injection is done with other topics to Israel-Palestine.
People typically agree that Zionists are doing a genocide. It's where equivalences are made by pivoting discussion into things like Xinjiang or Ukraine in a lazy or vague way.
It's that maneuver that typically sparks argument.