1y ago

The acceptable level of support for genocide is exactly none

Alt text: a destroyed city filled with speach bubbles all saying "stop your bombs" and Kamala Harris in the foreground with "I'm speaking" in large text along the bottom.

Anarchism @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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1y ago

She's speaking

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Nice strawman!
- "I'm speaking" are literally her words in refence to pro-palestinian protesters chanting at one of her rallies like 2 days ago.
  Edit: her campaign has at no point expressed a desire (let alone a demand) to end arms shipments and military aid to Israel. Nor has she expressed at any point that she intends to demand an immediate ceasefire if elected.
  Edit2: clarification
  
  Yes this is such a disappointment. All we want to hear is her calling and pledging for the stopping of genocide of the Palestine people.
  
  Continuation of support for genocide.
- Nice Liberal nonsense but it seems you forgot this community is for leftists
  
  There's nothing worse for leftism than leftists making bad arguments.
- Just say you're okay with genocide as long as it's funded by team blue and only affects brown people on the other side of the world. Just say it.
- Literally no one wants that.
The moral of this story is don't stop protesting. Some liberals are easing up on the Israel/Palestine issue because they believe Kamala will get a ceasefire on favorable terms, but she remains aligned with the status quo and will compromise heavily if she is not pressured by a large constituency on the left. Kamala is more movable on the issue than Biden and that means we need to keep pushing her on it.
There was a more recent rally where she seems to have learned from this mistake and dedicated some time to acknowledging the protestors and calling for a ceasefire before continuing her speech. I think this shows that unlike Biden she sees the protestors as being worth appealing to, and they need to respond to that by making their demands clear and actionable.
I love lemmy for being able to easily block this sort of stuff
- Bye bye Liberal :3
But who would kill the children? /s
- A comprehensive list
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- Almost like people should read the community rules before commenting?

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