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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 03:34:47 JST Evan Prodromou

   • LA Legault 🍉

   @LALegault so, I don't think anything in here is really new, though. Palestinian Americans and other Arab Americans have known that Trump will be a fucking catastrophe for Palestine and for the US since before the Uncommitted movement started. Arab Americans were an explicit and direct target of the first Trump Administration (not to mention the Bush Administration before them).

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 03:39:03 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • LA Legault 🍉

     @LALegault The central premise of Uncommitted is that Arab Americans would use the threat of a loss to Trump as leverage on the Biden and now Harris campaigns to get concessions that would end or even just reduce the immense suffering in Gaza.

     That was a huge personal risk on the part of Arab Americans. They knew the stakes.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 03:42:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • LA Legault 🍉

     @LALegault it was, in a way, a promise to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza that the Arab Diaspora would use the leverage it had to try to stop the war.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 06:32:25 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Meowki

     @Meowki @LALegault It was not much leverage, but it was literally the only structural pressure possible to stop the war. It was a risky bet, but what would it have meant not to take that bet?

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     Meowki (meowki@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 28-Oct-2024 06:32:27 JST Meowki

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     • LA Legault 🍉

     @evan @LALegault Let’s face it. It’s neither a threat nor leverage. It’s a wager, and an incredibly risky one on top of that. On one hand you’ll still have the chance to put pressure on the problem after the election, on the other there won’t be anything to put pressure on. Pick the lesser evil now to fight another day: That is the rational choice here.