I think I can relate to literally all of them. Not competitive Jenga, but some other niche topic that I will be hyper interested for a consecutive 4 hours after midnight. I spent a whole night one time learning about roller derby and watching replays of the women’s final for the past few years. I had never watched it before in my life and went all in. The men’s version is not as good. They are too fast and strong, so it’s more boring and less nuanced.

I too lived on a dollar or less a day before becoming the lower middle class person I am today. It’s easy when your parents buy everything for you and you don’t have expenses.

If it means less guns, I personally dgaf.

I’ll still take her vote

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“Voting for Harris is voting for genocide.”

I did a job shadow at a PT clinic years ago. That’s where I learned that. Just scrape it all off until it eventually heals.

I used to have a manager that once slid out on her motorcycle on some loose sand and got a bit of road rash. The recovery was similar.

Just listened a bit. The song is bad, and the singing isn’t particularly good, but I didn’t think it was as bad as the quips make it seem. The audio sounds heavily manipulated. I’ve definitely heard worse.

I think genocide is bad. I think Israel is committing genocide against Palestine. It’s absolutely disgusting and I would love if the USA could/would somehow cut the cord on support until they stop permanently. I say “could” because when talking about geopolitics, the world is extremely complicated, and I know that I, and probably every person here, don’t know everything the US government does regarding relations with Israel and the implications of cutting off support. I’m not putting on a tin foil hat or anything, I just know that I don’t know everything, so it would be disingenuous to say that it’s as easy as just saying no to Israel.

The problem I have, is that comments like yours saying that Harris is 100% pro genocide, which is an emotionally charged statement to complex situation. Those types of comments infer information, pass it as facts, and then use that to attack her. I don’t think there is anything wrong with being critical of the situation, and i believe discourse is healthy for growth and betterment, but these are just brute force attacks that don’t help the situation. They don’t leave room for an open dialogue, and are more likely to hurt Harris’s chances of winning in November. I do believe that at the root of of these statements, the intent is to pressure the admin for change, but I think that it has the adverse effect due to the way the argument is presented, especially because currently as VP, she doesn’t have the power to change anything anyway.

I feel like a broken record saying this in Lemmy, but when November comes, there will be two candidates with a chance to be POTUS. Until then, Harris’s #1 goal is to get elected, because if that doesn’t happen then she can’t do anything anyways. Attacking that and turning off voters can end the most important part of change. After the election is complete and if she wins, go to town on the hard protesting when she actually can enact change and Trump is no longer a legitimate threat to the future of the US and likely a much worse situation for Palestine.

To reiterate, I hope Netanyahu faces punishment for the atrocities that he has ordered. I hope that there is a Nuremberg Trials type situation once all of this is resolved, and that people face consequence. I hope that I’m wrong and it’s super easy, and that Harris sees the light and says “no”.

“I trust that you’ll also be calling all the people who accuse anyone who is even slightly unhappy about genocide of being trump supporters liars too, *right*?”

That was a reply from you to me. It’s not a persecution complex when you literally did that I said you did.

Where in your example of a pro genocide comment, does it suggest that anyone against genocide is a Trump supporter? Nowhere, because it didn’t happen. You are just making up more shit.

The adviser, Phil Gordon, said on social media on Thursday morning that Ms. Harris would “always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.” He added: “She does not support an arms embargo on Israel. She will continue to work to protect civilians in Gaza and to uphold international humanitarian law.”

Which part of that is pro genocide? In my opinion, I would like a stronger stance against Israel, but defending allies against attack and fighting to defend Gaza are not what you’re claiming. Perhaps they will end up as empty words, but your claims are baseless as of right now. If Harris was already president, maybe you have an argument, but until then it’s pure speculation.

Your comments were directed at me, clearly. If you can point to any times that I claimed something not true, you can certainly call me a liar. Instead, you keep claiming falsehoods about people supporting genocide. I have seen exactly 0 comments that are pro genocide. You are making claims that are verifiably false. That’s why I’m calling you a liar, because you have made no factual statements.

So, you’re full of shit? Got it.

Can you tell the future?

Would you rather the bigots vote for Trump?

When did Democrats ever have the power to change any of that? Can’t force change without control of Congress which didn’t happen. While it seems like a weak consolation, gender neutral bathrooms is progress. Nobody as the unilateral power to make any of those changes.

What do you think could have been done over the last 4 years that would have been real change?

Based on what? There is zero basis in your claim.

One will actively aid in the genocide, the other may not. There’s two options, one is better than the other. You can piss and moan all you want about it, but that’s reality. Don’t vote out of protest if that gets your rocks off, but it won’t do any good for Palestine.

I didn’t do that, you made that up too.

That might be true if anything even remotely close to that happened, but that is a completely different situation that what this conversation is about.

One side says no trans rights, and one side didn’t bring it up in their speech, event though a couple of others did, which is far different from being anti trans.