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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396569

Moira Donegan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 06.07 EDT

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Unfortunately, there is a downside to allowing Trump to win. It's the trolly problem and yes I will help pull the lever that kills people to keep even more people from dying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Then it's not a single lever pull - it's a sum of lever pulls over a long time period.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Democrats already started the second genocide in Lebanon.

And soon a war with Iran.

All the "greater evils" of Trump will have been fulfilled by democrats before Trump even become president

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's just the evil abroad. Trump welcomes evil right here at home.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is a total lie. That's a very small segment of what Trump would do, and Trump wants to accelerate that too. He also holds a lot of anti-trans positions and anti-woman positions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Don't forget that Trump has pretty much promised to import the genocide home. It might not start off with people being gunned down in the street, but it's definitely going to make life hard-to-impossible for immigrants, LGBTQIA+ people, and everyone who's not a straight white man.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I was talking to a girl in beyrut. Her family is getting bombed with white phosphorus.

It's not "even more people". That is bullcrap. You have the choice between the violence being externalized or fighting it at home. You choose the former. Fuck you.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They will never negotiate with you, even on genocide, if you vote for them 24/7. Where is the red line?

It took Ronald Reagan one phone call to get them to stop bombing Lebanon.

Margaret Thatcher put a 10-year long arms embargo on them in the 80s.

Modern democrats are worse than Republicans from the 70s.

This can be shown with Biden's draconian crime bill.

his full involvement in the "war on terror".

Kamala ignoring the Supreme Court's decision on releasing nonviolent prisoners after overcrowding, as they were being used for slave labor.

The Marginal tax rate being lower TODAY than it was after Reagan passed his tax cuts.

They will never move to be more progressive if progressives still vote for them.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Modern democrats are worse than Republicans from the 70s.

Today's lesser evil was the greater evil yesterday.