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      Imagine unironically posting this after Fascist Joe claims the ICC is “outrageous” for prosecuting israel.

      Blue MAGA rise up.

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              Bro dude mate friend forget about the Genocide did you see Trump having his looneys march towards the capital? That’s literally MussoliNazi!

              Minimizing a Genocide and Blue MAGA name a better combo.

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          While the word “fascist” is thrown around so much that I don’t even really understand what it means anymore, the fact remains that Joe Biden is supporting a genocide. He’s way better than Trump, and he’s the only viable option to prevent Trump, but I’m really hoping we don’t twiddle our thumbs for the next 4 years while a lesser-but-still-significant evil sits in office. We need to take significant action to prevent future presidential candidates of either party from being as objectively terrible as our current options.

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            The US military industrial complex facilitates genocide as fiscal policy. If that translates to ‘Biden supports genocide’ then the next step is ‘the American taxpayer supports genocide’, which makes the term ‘support’ pretty meaningless in these statements.

            But yes- obviously Biden is the only rational choice in 2024 and it’d be nice to think we could do better after. Can’t say I’m hopeful but I’ll vote for Biden to hold a seat for that hope in case it ever shows up.

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              The American taxpayer doesn’t get to choose where their taxes go, so they can’t be responsible for atrocities caused by that money. Joe Biden is the president; I understand that there are checks and balances that prevent him from making wild changes out of left field, but he definitely has the power to stop sending weapons to a country he himself has said has gone too far. Would that decision have repercussions for himself and the population at large? Of course. Would those repercussions be significant enough to warrant continuing to massacre innocent people to avoid them? Fuck no.

              The fact that Biden chooses not to make that stand is damning, even if he’s still the candidate I’ll be voting for to prevent the worst outcome. In the end, Biden’s choices demand that action be taken by the population, and that action will need to be more than just waiting 4 years and hoping the next candidate isn’t as bad; real efforts rivaling the civil rights movement will need to be taken in order to push our government back toward being acceptable again by the time we’re voting in new candidates.

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                Sounds like you just don’t want to face the consequences for not supporting genocide with your taxes so you’re kinda exactly like Biden ;)

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                  You’re right. I’m a disgrace. Each and every one of us has the power to start a revolution, but we don’t, and that makes each and every one of us a failure. I talk a big game, but I’m not going to be the one to rise up and stop warmongering. All I have the willpower to do is to hope that someone else finds that strength, and to point out the hypocrisy that I and every other person who supports Joe Biden while pretending to have a clear conscious displays.

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                    Yeah, anyone that doesn’t publicly self-flagellate in the right terms about voting for Biden deserves to be ridiculed by someone that does. It’s only fair ;)

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                    Each and every one of us has the power to start a revolution, but we don’t, and that makes each and every one of us a failure.

                    Or that the cult of heroism and martyrdom is a relic of fascist, proto-fascist, and religious ideologies, and that there is an acceptable middle ground between “Doing nothing” and “Giving up your entire life or even identity for The Cause” that is not merely acceptable, but actively praiseworthy.

                    All I have the willpower to do is to hope that someone else finds that strength, and to point out the hypocrisy that I and every other person who supports Joe Biden while pretending to have a clear conscious displays.

                    Man, of all my fucking sins, “Supports the far less vile of the only two realistic choices in a shitshow of an election” isn’t one of them. With regards to that, I have a clear conscience, and so should you, probably.

                    Heroes are either people in the right place at the right time, or maniacs from day one. If you haven’t been elite-schmoozing top-of-your-class revolution-plotting since you turned 18, Ataturk style, you probably aren’t a maniac.

                    Be a good person. Be a good citizen. Nothing more can be reasonably asked of those of us just struggling to make it by in life. You don’t have to be a hero to be a decent human being. The world would not function, and billions would suffer more, without those of us putting in what we can, when we can. I’m not going to condemn myself for that, and I’m sure as shit not going to condemn billions of others who are struggling for not playing the martyrdom game.