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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 15:03:22 JST Aral Balkan

   If your president is actively funding, arming, and supporting a genocide and you call him “a good person” and “a good president”, maybe it’s time to take a good, long look in the mirror and wonder where things went wrong for you and whether you see a path back to reclaiming your humanity.

   #genocide #israel #palestine #gaza

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 15:14:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • danjac

     @danjac There’s a difference between voting for the lesser of two evils because that’s all your flawed democracy lets you do and calling one of the evils “good”.

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     danjac (danjac@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 15:14:07 JST danjac

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     @aral I don't blame those who support Biden in that environment, because the alternative, as bad as the status quo is today, will be orders of magnitude far worse.

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     danjac (danjac@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 15:14:09 JST danjac

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     @aral the problem for decent Americans is that they don't live in a proper democracy, and have the choice between voting for a flawed president and continuing business-as-usual or choosing (either directly or by voting 3rd party or not at all) a full-throated fascist who will double down in support of Netanyahu, and quite possibly abolish whatever is left of US democracy entirely.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 18:26:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     • danjac

     @danjac Does it matter. If a person who actively supports genocide is “good”, we need a new word that actually means “good”.

     AnthonyJK-Admin repeated this.
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     danjac (danjac@masto.ai)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 18:26:26 JST danjac

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     @aral it depends on *why* they are calling Biden good. Do they really believe it, or are they just trying to persuade some swing voters not to back Trump?

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     Mogleg (mogleg@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 02-May-2024 18:59:59 JST Mogleg

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     • danjac

     @aral
     1984 to the rescue! I submit “double-plus-un-bad” for your consideration.

     In all seriousness, anyone supporting genocide can’t be called “good”. He may be “marginally less horrible” but not “good”.

     Also, if a policy position that doesn’t include genocide is too much to ask… I don’t know what to tell you.

     @danjac