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[–] 130 points 4 months ago (30 children)

If some people in the Democratic party change their minds and stop supporting Israeli crimes, I welcome them.

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  • [+] [S] 98 points 4 months ago (21 children)
  • [–] 53 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    No argument here, but I still prefer this to the alternative

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  • [+] [S] 30 points 4 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    She doesn't have any tangible political power and probably never will again, so there's that

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    it's worth remembering the was one of the first to withdraw her presidential bid in 2020 because it was abundantly obvious no one was interested. she was selected as Joe Biden's running mate to make him look more progressive than he was and to groom her for the national stage. it is abundantly clear now that the nation at large is not interested for a variety of reasons. the left sees in her the conservatism of the democratic party over the last 40 years. the right sees a variety of things depending on how their brains are broken:

    • "forced diversity"
    • a communist
    • an impulsive woman
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  • [+] -10 points 4 months ago (10 children)

    The American left needs to fall out of love with cannibalism.

    I don't care why Harris wants to do the right thing now.

    Allow people to save face and change their positions - attacking them for "flip flops" is to say "No reasonable adult should ever change their mind about anything" which is not only bananas, but discourages people from doing critical thinking because they'd face humiliation for reversing course.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    in politics, words are cheap. I'll believe her when she DOES something significant to demonstrate her new found beliefs. Until then, doubt.

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  • [+] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    This isn't purity testing, this is predicting that she isn't going to advance any of our interests based on her history of being more willing to lose to Donald fucking Trump than advance any of our interests.

    She knew supporting genocide would decrease the number of people who would vote for her, she knew supporting war would decrease the number of people who would vote for her, she knew supporting ICE would decrease the number of people who would vote for her. She chose to embrace these policies anyway.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    She's not Saul on the road to Damascus here.

    She's Faust swearing to burn his books long after he damned himself.

    Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.

    ...and Jalad at Tanagra.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    I don’t care why Harris wants to do the right thing now.

    I don't believe she actually does want to do the right thing, now or ever.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Presumably she's said somewhere that she supports DSA or socialism (or else why would OP make this meme)?

    Is that not "the right thing?"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    She's saying she does. I hear words and see no other evidence. Centrists say a lot of shit.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    True, but isn't that true of the vast majority of people?

    Most of us yap a lot but don't actually do much, and those who do do things tend to yap first, right?

    If my card-carrying Democrat neighbor, for example, said "I support socialism" I wouldn't admonish them out of suspicion they don't intend to follow through because they haven't done anything concrete yet; I would say "Good on you! Welcome to the team! Here's what we can do together:"

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 child)

    A lot of people aren't former presidential candidates who already showed who they really are.

    Harris showed that she was so devoted to the cause of genocide that she was willing to lose to trump rather than change it.

    No one is buying her fake change of heart now.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Al we know is thst she reached out to them. Nothing about her supporting palestinians in anyway, nothing about cutting all aids and weapons to israel

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Any forward progress at all is progress

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  • [–] 45 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    If she somehow gets the Hillary treatment and is shoehorned into being the Democrat nomination, I fucking quit.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Not last time, though. What they did last time was fine.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Biden should have quit 6 months sooner and gave Harris a sliver of a chance at proving she could do the job. They set themselves up for failure.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They set themselves up for failure by being Zionazi neoliberal monsters

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  • [+] -6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 36 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    She won't flip. She knows why the USA formed Israel, and that the USA supports what Israel is doing for its long term strategic goals.

    Why do you think we provide Israel with billions of dollars every year? It's not charity

    Just like Biden virtually ignored his platform of minimum wage increase once he took office (not even one standalone bill), Harris may use Israel to gain office, but she won't actually do anything against Israel should she win.

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  • [–] 34 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    You know, it's odd. Whenever anyone suggests that AOC run for president, the refrain from centrists is "A woman of color can't win!"

    Wonder where they went in this thread.

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  • [–] 18 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    People also say a woman in general can't win but I say we have never had the opportunity to find out in the US. Not with an actual good candidate anyway.

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Isn't that a bit hyperbolic? We've had two women run, neither of them were perfect, nor even great, but both of them lost to Donald Trump. It feels a bit weird to say that we haven't had the opportunity to find out if women can win the presidency when the examples are two seasoned politicians vs a self admitted sex offender, convicted rapist, and Israel supporter (instead of just an Israel denialist).

    At this point we know that people of color can win, Obama did it, but the last two times a woman ran for President they lost to the same terrible person. At a certain point you have to ask,

    • 1.) is it because they are a woman,
    • 2.) Is it because they're a bad candidate,
    • 3.) Is the system so gerrymandered that they can't win, or
    • 4.) is there something wrong with the left in which they can't get there shit together and push through a candidate that is at least better than the opposition?

    The fact that we're honestly looking at a potential 3rd Trump term, or the slightly more palatable option of JD Vance, vs literally anyone else is mind boggling and to me it points to #4. I don't care who it is on the opposing ticket, AOC, Harris, or the fucking Cookie Monster from Sesame Street. The Democrats aren't doing much to improve the country, but at least they aren't actively trying to ruin it.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Considering that the centrist wing stops saying a woman can't win when people talk about Harris running again, but use her and Clinton as evidence that women can't win when people talk about AOC running, it sure looks like your wing of the party is just trying to block a progressive from running.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    I personally believe it's #2. I literally never met any true Democrat IRL that was happy about either Hillary or Kamala running for their policies that wasn't under the age of like 50. The feminism in power thing can only get you so far.... I did however hear from plenty of critically online people on Reddit downvoting and or MODs banning me when I talked like they weren't our presidential savior because they had a vagina or something?

    The same goes for Biden for that under 50 thing in my experience irl btw.

    My point is, the DNC sucks. They have picked bad primary candidates for many years now. I personally don't think it's their plumbing, it's because they were bad candidates. I could be wrong but to me, there's no telling that until you have a woman run as Democrat that isn't a centrist claiming to be a leftist.

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  • [+] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Lmao what fucking record? So weird! That was a stretch don't you think? I never said I didn't vote for them but this isn't really about me, it's about the general public. Personally, no I don't believe a fat pedo rapis is a better candidate but obviously the general public does or they wouldn't have lost. That doesn't change the fact that they ARE shit candidates. They were then and they are now.

    What the last many presidential elections should have taught the DNC by now is they can't do what you just did because it obviously no longer works. The lesser of two evils argument has literally cost the Democrats the presidential election more times than not in my lifetime. Kerry, Hillary, and Kamala fell short for that exact reason while Biden stumbled in incoherently just like Trump did twice.

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  • [–] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The "for the record" was just to refresh what #2 was since you didn't quote it yourself.

    this isn’t really about me, it’s about the general public.... That doesn’t change the fact that they ARE shit candidates. They were then and they are now.

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt here because that's a valid stance (your opinion vs the apparent public opinion) and I'll agree that they are bad candidates. However, by that logic I would argue that #2 isn't the answer then because as you said both are bad candidates and surely Trump is not a better candidate than Hillary or Harris? Would you agree with that?

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  • [–] 44 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Kamala Harris is a very good example of what Democrats in America have become which is just a “say whatever gets the people goin’ so I can win elections” party

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  • [–] 54 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    They can't even win elections though

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    And that’s exactly why they’re a dying breed! They’re completely out of touch on what people actually care about

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    And when centrist dems finally start addressing things people actually care about, they discover that they've burned all their credibility.

    Why should anyone trust people who break their promises and then turn around and support genocide instead?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    They're not supposed to win. Controlled opposition is the goal.

    All the expert consultants still make millions of dollars every election. Capitalists keep getting what they want. Ezra Klein will write another neoliberal propaganda book that every billionaire fascist will help advertise.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm assuming Gavin Newsom is plotting his opportunity to use Zorhan for his benefit as well.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    For the libs in here crying about "second chances for people who change their minds": give me a fucking break. You are the rubest of rubes. Change you mind, sure, but fucking demonstrate your new conviction!! Words are the stock and trade of the politician. Let's see some action, or even some non-mincing words. Condemn Israel. Call loudly for prosecution of the entire Israeli regime. There's ways to convince me, and I haven't seen anything like it yet. If you take Kamala at her word, be honest with yourself: you didn't really care when she supported the genocide in the first place.

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  • [–] 21 points 4 months ago (9 children)

    I hope the DSA stays strong. Their message is clear, popular and the american people deserve change. Real change!

    No need for these crusty, old, corrupt republicans with a guilty conscience.

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  • [–] -5 points 4 months ago (8 children)

    The American people deserve 75 years of misery, which is exactly what they've been inflicting on the global South since WWII.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. If you value revenge above progress, that's on you.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I don't, the other guy brought up what Americans deserve, I was just correcting them.

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  • [–] -1 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    And who decides what they deserve, you? Guess it's easier to give in to the propaganda that it's the common people's fault and wish them all bad, than admit it's the top's fault for having bombarded them with propaganda and fought any critical thinking for years until they got where they ae now.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    And as long as the treats keep flowing none of them care about the millions of people America has left dead in its wake.

    Fair is fair, do unto others and all that.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    As I said, revenge over progress, ignoring reality for your own feelings of having the moral high ground for wanting to give them "what they deserve".

    A feeling that you are better than them for wishing upon them the same that they did to everyone else.

    A lack empathy or sympathy, but being full of revenge, will take you nowhere useful for anyone but the ones that want us to see a different enemy than the top 1%.

    Just like when right wing politicians blame immigrants for everything so you won't blame the 1%, you were convinced to blame American citizens instead of the 1%.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    What they deserve and the ideal course of action are two different things.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Kamala

    • Being 2nd: 100%
    • Minority: 75%
    • Opportunism: 100%
    • Turncoat: 100%
    • Apologies: 0%
    • Success: -100%
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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Let them join. Just demand that they give several full throated endorsements

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Unless I missed something, she never claimed to be a democratic socialist. In fact, she explicitly said she wasn't during her campaign.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    North America and South America were promised to the natives! Oh, it only works for white people?

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  • [–] -4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

    I have always found it bonkers that people hold it against politicians who change their opinions. Isn't that supposed to be a good thing, and considered personal growth?

    Edit: Gee, really riled some feathers with this comment. Ya'll can stop lecturing me now about how naive I am.

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago

    I 100% believe that she and everyone in the Biden administration knew that Israel was committing a genocide with Biden's enthusiastic help. She didn’t have the courage to speak up even after Biden was out of the picture. The complete fecklessness of centrist Democrats has gifted America years of Republican control.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago

    The problem is that, due to the structure of our political institutions, you cannot trust that they have truly changed their opinions. It is far more likely that they are providing lip service in order to obtain a position of power and authority.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    The problem is trust. They can say whatever the hell they want if they think it's gonna get them elected but then not follow through. I'm not gonna trust someone who up until now thought killing children was totally cool. I'm also not going to trust someone who's been taking corporate money, especially if they still are.

    Would it be nice if they changed their position? Sure. But why does it need to be them in power? There are over 300 million people in this country. There are plenty of them that never thought killing children was cool. Plenty who have never taken corporate political donations. Plenty who better represent the majority class. Teachers, union organizers, former baristas, etc. A lot of them could do a better job than these opportunistic ghouls. Why do we need the same rotating cast of legacy politicians constantly getting into power when they're the people who got us here in the first place?

    Besides, we shouldn't need to reward them for eventually coming around to the right position if it's a genuine belief and not just trying to catch the shifting political winds. If it's genuine, good for them! Even setting aside the effect these beliefs have on other people, it must be truly toxic to the soul to believe in such callous things. May they go on to live a happier life way the fuck away from all of us. Actually, if they want to go back some actual socialists, I'd be cool with that too.

    EDIT: Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, it's fine if people who weren't gov officials with a hand in the genocide want to change their positions. Saying Kamala and those like her were "cool" with genocide is woefully understating what they did. They participated in it. Regardless of any change in views, these are people who all deserve to be put on trial for what they've done. Let them think about it from inside a jail cell.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago

    a politician that changes to where the wind blows conveniently during an election is literally conning you. they will flip back to abuse their station just as fast IF NOT FASTER then the switch to the bandwagon. the whole point is to get elected in. the fact you can’t tell it’s disingenuous or refuse is damming for people as a whole. you can see the choices that lead her to this point, you KNOW her mind. there are uncountable options of people not as duplicitous who actually believe what they would run for.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Isn't this what conservatives do all the time to defend pedophile in charge, well knowing he's is a racists, misogynist, fraud and pedophile?

    But if Trump says he isn't, he must be telling the truth and that's supposed to be a good thing, and considered personal growth, right? right?

    Please don't be this gullible. It's bonkers, it even has to be said. Actions speak louder than words.

    Saying what people want to hear is what they're fucking trained to do.

    Of that doesn't ring a bell, then oh well.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    There's no shortage of politicians.

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