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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 00:14:27 JST Aral Balkan

   “Hey, our boy might fund the occasional genocide but at least he’s no rapist!”

   – Democrats, 2024

   The bar’s so low, I don’t know if I’m watching a presidential election or a limbo contest.

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     May Likes Toronto (mayintoronto@mstdn.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 00:45:01 JST May Likes Toronto

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     @aral I always recommend that people answer a radical 3rd party on polls.

     1. It's not your actual vote.
     2. It scares the establishment into making stronger concessions.
     3. It forces the establishment voters to hear about the alternatives and what life could be like beyond the 2 parties.

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     Q. Edwards (the_q@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 01:32:06 JST Q. Edwards

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     @aral it's interesting that so many people are suddenly concerned about the Palestinian people when the US has been involved with killing since it's inception. Everything we Americans enjoy is built on murder, destruction and suffering. Now we're concerned about it?

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 01:32:06 JST Aral Balkan

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     @the_q Donno man, I’ve been concerned about it from the day I heard about the situation and I’m not an American so you’re going to have ask someone else.

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     Fifi Lamoura (fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 01:34:44 JST Fifi Lamoura

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     @aral This is even more extreme gaslighting than the Covid response in how it twists neglect and harm as being virtuous and a "cleansing" of "undesirables." Using the Holocaust to justify genocide is just so extremely cynical and dishonest....all while queer people, disabled people, Brown people and women are being oppressed by the far right and religious extremists at home.

     My own shock does allow me to understand the denial a bit (and I experienced shock at the slow and fast horrors unfolding too, even if I'm not entirely surprised and so don't need to reflexively go into denial because I have a community that also sees reality even if we sometimes have different perspectives and opinions). I try to have some compassion for people who have less tools to manage and incorporate the reality of what is actually going on, if only to be able to collect them into constructive action and mutual aid at some point as things get even worse.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2024 01:35:19 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Fifi Lamoura

     @fifilamoura 💕