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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 20:54:22 JST Aral Balkan

   Liberals: why didn’t you vote to continue Biden’s polite genocide? I was comfortable with that. Now I’m uncomfortable with Trump’s rude ethnic cleansing and it’s all your fault.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:10:58 JST Rich Felker

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     @aral Whether to continue it was NOT ON THE BALLOT. Sadly you only get to vote for or against things that are on the ballot. Everything else requires non electoral methods.

     OTOH Project 2025 was on the ballot and a bunch of people lying that "continue the Palestinian genocide or not?" was on the ballot voted for all of its provisions. And noe we're stuck with multiple genocides to fight and an administration that can't be pressured because they consider genocide a badge of pride not something shameful they want to pretend they're not doing.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:20:03 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias And who chose what and who was on the ballot?

     Look, the system is broken. Unless *that’s* recognised, nothing’s going to change. We’re past the point where voting alone is going to change anything for the better in the United States (and perhaps a few other places but maybe none quite as extreme). Unless there’s systemic change, we’re always going to have the choice between less and more shit until one day it hits the fan in your own room.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:21:43 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Mimi (He/him)

     @mimi Wasn’t it just sparkling incentivised relocations and subsidised life forfeiture before? I’m so confused.

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     Mimi (He/him) (mimi@spore.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:21:44 JST Mimi (He/him)

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     @aral It's interesting how eager the media suddenly are to point out ethnic cleansing is a war crime.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:34:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • mpsi

     @mpsi Yeah, which is why I told people to hold their noses and vote for Harris.

     There’s a huge bloody difference between that and gloating – actually fucking gloating – that people who didn’t vote for Harris (which, ironically, include Palestinians) somehow deserve what they’re getting.

     https://mas.to/@gleick/113896552252031344

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     mpsi (mpsi@lor.sh)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:34:09 JST mpsi

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     @aral Not voting when you can is plain STUPID. Even if the difference between candidates seems tiny, you should learn to make a choice.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:35:17 JST Rich Felker

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     @aral Voting can't fix anything, but voting for fascists (explicitly or in absentia) absolutely does make doing the other things we need to do to save ourselves and each other a fucking lot harder.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:36:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • mpsi

     @mpsi And how about the huge bloody difference between having a candidate that supports genocide and one that doesn’t. How morally vacuus are the Democrats that they cannot not support genocide, much less oppose it. (That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.)

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     mpsi (mpsi@lor.sh)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:36:45 JST mpsi

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     @aral What you perceived as a tiny difference, for some people becomes the line between life and death.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:51:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias https://lor.sh/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/113900331737325542