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    You know, for a lot of people, those in palestine, their families here, and muslims across the world, there isn’t a difference between the current administrations policy and what Harris is proposing.

    The big picture, you need to see it.

    And like we had to tell Blue MAGA over and over again, its not the voters job to come to the politicians position. Its the politicians job to go get the voters. And if the voters position is “I’d rather not have my people genociced” or “I’d rather my ethnic minority not be considered less valuable than goats compared to other ethnic minorities”, well then, as a reasonable person, I’m sure you can understand why they and others in solidarity with them would continue to withhold their votes.

    And on withholding your vote, it is quite literally the only thing that has given us a snow-balls chance at hell in actually beating Trump. Any one putting out rhetoric to the otherwise, in the form of voter shaming, any blue will do, or blue maga, is one full step down the road into fascism. They need to be named, shamed, and ignored. They worked to give us Trump by trying to vote shame an entire nation into supporting Biden, a failed candidate who by all objective metrics had never been even competitive in his 2024 bid for president.

    Kamala signaled with her Walz pick up that she would do better on Israel Gaza. Its her time to show the voters she is better, and no voter’s owe her a vote either way.

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      Bullshit. You can vote for Harris or you can vote for Trump. Are you REALLY going to vote for Trump and think things will get better?

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          Not much has changed… it’s still FPTP… Nobody but Trump or Harris will pass the post… which one of the two do you want to win? Choose wisely…

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            Not much has changed

            Oh I agree. You clearly haven’t learned shit about how elections or voters actually work, considering that you’re setting up the same conditions that resulted in Bidens disaster of a campaign. You should just take the time to think of the material consequences this specific rhetoric had on Bidens failed campaign.

            You can not shame people into voting the way you think they should. Its not a voters job to adopt the position of a candidate. Ever. Insisting that it be that way when it isn’t is sticking your head in the sand regarding reality.

            Its Harris’ job to address the issues voters have with the administration and hers’ policy on Gaza. If she does not, she will not get those voters. If you see that happening and blamer it on those voters rather than the candidate, you are the problem.

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              I’m not shaming anyone… just stating reality. Harris or Trump will become POTUS. Nobody else running has a snowball’s chance in hell of winning the election.

              Now that you’re tuned in to reality… would you rather POTUS is Trump or Harris? I don’t like it and you don’t like it, but you don’t get any other choice.

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                  What are you feeling ashamed of? What shame do you feel I am trying to cast on you?

                  Who, besides Harris or Trump do you feel might get elected POTUS this election cycle?

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                    If I start digging through your comment history, will I find you presenting Biden and Trump as a binary?

                    When it wasn’t. When that was a lie constructed to support Trump? That specific rhetorical technique was driving people away from Biden, refusing to hold him accountable in such a way that he would become more preferable to voters.

                    If I dig through your comment history, how deep will I have to go to find you engaging a toxic, cult-like behavior, that almost cost us this entire election?

                    I get that you don’t understand what you are doing or its consequences, but the world is actually much larger than your destructively narrow approach to looking at things. You should maybe take the time to engage in introspection and the damage that your approach and shockingly limited worldview actually does. If your worldview doesn’t map to future states, its not the world thats wrong.

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          No, I understand what you said but I think it just sounded like a canned response. If you reread their comment and yours then it really seems like you spring boarded off some key words and didn’t really reply to them at all. It’s not even argumentative, it’s just confusingly misplaced.

          Why not just make a top level post?

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            No, I understand what you said but I think.

            No, you don’t.

            It’s not even argumentative, it’s just confusingly misplaced.

            Only if you live in an ahistorical vacuum with no appreciation of nuance or context. And maybe you are coming to this conversation in that manner, so keep in mind this is a forum specifically for discussion politics, and the people having conversations here may have far more context and depth to what they are saying than you may at first notice.

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              How is that a defense of your non sequitur post above? I don’t think digging at me is going to brute force that first comment into context.