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   Ricki Bowie Knives Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 01:22:55 JST Ricki Bowie Knives Tarr

   Y'all I'm going to sound like a church youth group leader, but I have something on my heart, and it is fucking me up if I'm being honest, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. I know this is a hot button issue with lots of opinions, but here goes. I would love to enthusiastically support President Biden, up until this Palestinian thing I've been pleasantly surprised at his accomplishments. It wasn't big or flashy, but decent, and helpful. But now Gaza, at first, providing weapons to an ally that had been attacked seemed like a sane thing to do, but now this isn't defending your homeland anymore. Over 30k people, hospitals and schools destroyed, children starving because of blockades, and there's no way you can't call it what it is anymore. It feels like the plan is just to really hope that Israel will agree to a cease-fire, but what if they don't? At the same time, should we just roll over and let Trump be President, because that's what will happen too, and then it's even worse for everyone involved. Rock meet hard place. I'm tired, and this devastation eats away at you, and I'm not even in it, and I feel bad that I can just not look at the news and watch a sitcom, because I feel too overwhelmed to look at it sometimes. And there's no magic solution here, a fantasy third party candidate isn't going to come sweep us off our feet and be our Deus Ex Machina, we are just going to have to make a hard choice that we don't want to make. I'm not telling people what to do or how to feel, I feel complicated, so please don't fight with people in the comments or yell at me for not believing in Utopias. This just sucks for everyone, it's just so heavy. I love you guys, thanks for reading my ramble, I'm sorry it's like this.

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     Oftenwrong Gates (nickgates@friendsofdesoto.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 01:22:52 JST Oftenwrong Gates

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     @RickiTarr my rep is a "blue dog" democrat so it's like having a Republican

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     Ricki Bowie Knives Tarr (rickitarr@beige.party)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 01:22:53 JST Ricki Bowie Knives Tarr

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     @NickGates Sigh I live in a red state so...yeah

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     Oftenwrong Gates (nickgates@friendsofdesoto.social)'s status on Saturday, 16-Mar-2024 01:22:54 JST Oftenwrong Gates

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     @RickiTarr Also if you're like me, your representative in Congress is making excuses for Israel