Y'all, take the money you have been giving to corporate outlets and redirect it to nonprofit newsrooms. The mainstream media is failing us (and has for a long time), and this is a good opportunity to redirect your money:

https://newsmatch.inn.org/

Yes, voting won't fix everything. Yes, we will still have to struggle for a better world against *whoever* wins this election. But if there's one thing I know, it's that letting outright fascists who praise Hitler and use rhetoric straight out of Nazi Germany win is a terrible idea. It's not going to make it easier to organize for a better world and, in fact, will make it *significantly* harder.

The first people Hitler threw in jail were commies and socialists.

No, Trump won't be better on Gaza. He will *increase* aid to Israel (he has said as much). He will remove whatever few guardrails kind of exist right now on our aid to them ("Let them finish the job"). He has been itching for war with Iran since his first term (the only reason it didn't happen the first time around is because the generals refused).

As if the literal fascist will stop a genocide of people he hates.

FFS, what are we doing here people?

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And, taken holistically with all of the *other* issues (abortion, worker's rights, LGBTQ+ rights, birth control, and so many other things), it is absolutely unconscionable to let Trump and the GOP anywhere *near* the reins of federal power again. And yeah, it's not just Trump - it's the entire GOP.

Are Dems perfect on this? No, absolutely not. But only one candidate is even *pretending* to care about the working class.

5/?

And you're telling me the *literal fascist* who aches for generals like the ones Hitler had (he even gets that wrong - his generals pushed back sometimes LOL) and who hates Muslims...is more likely to end the genocide than someone who recognizes Palestinian suffering?

Again, what are we doing here people? This is madness.

I understand if someone votes for e.g. Stein or Claudia De La Cruz or someone. I don't understand voting for Trump based on Gaza. At all.

4/?

His 'peace' rhetoric is a *lie*. He has *repeatedly* demonized Palestinians, using it as an insult. He has repeatedly called for Israel to be allowed to 'finish the job'. What, in any of this, makes *anyone* think that he will stop the genocide in Gaza?

Meanwhile, you have Harris at least *mentioning* Palestinian suffering (a ridiculously low bar, but *she's the only one who clears it*).

3/?

Trump is not, nor has he ever been, isolationist. From dropping the MOAB on Afghanistan to increasing drone strikes by 432% to assassinating a top Iranian general to countless other war crimes, it is absolutely clear he is a war hawk. It's just that he couches allowing Russia to get what they want as 'a peace deal'. Hell, when he talks about peace in the ME, you think he means a two-state solution or one multi-ethnic state? No, he means kill all the Palestinians.

2/?

There *is* a meaningful choice in this election. The Dem party *has* moved in a more populist direction (the Overton window has moved from whether we should guarantee healthcare as a right to *how* to do it, for example). Full-throated support of unions (followed up by policies like the PRO act and a more muscular NLRB) is routine. Biden's FTC chair is going after tech monopolies. This shit is *good*.

8/?

And then if we compare VP candidates, the choice is even starker. Tim Walz has a *genuinely* progressive record. Vance, on the other hand, is a lying grifting shapeshifting asshole who backs up all of Trump's racist misogynistic lies along with pushing his own shit about childless women and the fucking great replacement theory.

Again, what are we doing here people? Vance should never *ever* get anywhere close to the reins of power, period. And Trump isn't exactly young.

7/?

Only one candidate has a plan to tackle price gouging. Only one candidate has pledged to restore Roe v Wade (yes, Dems were complacent and yes, that sucks...doesn't mean we punish them for finally waking up!). Only one candidate has pledged to tackle housing affordability.

The other candidate who could plausibly win is going on anti-trans tirades, lying about POC immigrants eating pets, wants tax cuts for the wealthy, wants to cut the social safety net, etc.

6/?

This is not a hard choice. Is it the choice I wish we had? Absolutely not - I would have liked a genuinely anti-genocide candidate who had a shot at winning, but we don't have that. What we do have is someone who has at least gestured at Palestinian suffering versus someone who *revels* in it. We have someone who has talked about a ceasefire versus someone who wants Israel to bomb Iran's nuclear sites.

10/?

Will Harris continue those things? I genuinely don't know. I hope so, but I don't know.

What I *do* know is that Trump will *absolutely* roll that stuff back, along with decimating environmental regulations, worker protections, anti-monopoly regulations, etc. Not to mention he *will* go after abortion, birth control, gay marriage, trans rights, and so much more.

And again, *he will be even worse on Gaza*.

9/?

The last time there was a fascist dictatorship, there was a massive war. The last time there was a fascist dictatorship, millions were brutally tortured and murdered. The last time there was a fascist dictatorship, it only ended when the dictator killed himself.

This is not a hard choice. Trump has repeatedly refused to honor the outcome of the 2024 election no matter who wins. Do you *really* think it's a good idea to let him take power again?

12/12

We have someone who full-throatedly supports abortion, birth control, gay marriage, and workers rights versus someone who has openly talked about rolling this stuff back. We have someone who despises fascists versus someone who openly praises them.

For the final time, what are we doing here people? If there's only one lesson we take away from Nazi Germany, it should be: Don't let the fascists take power. Ever. Because they won't give it up willingly.

11/?

@br00t4c This is a joke, right? Vance lied through his teeth the entire night.

Also, to compare Walz lying/misspeaking about a random trip he had to China with Vance lying about flipflopping about Trump is...wow. No words.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell Nah, just designate the latter two as terrorist organizations ;)

Israel is sprinting into its own version of the Holocaust and the world is aiding them. No, this isn't "Holocaust inversion" when Israel has literally been attacking hospitals, refugee camps, apartment buildings, schools, and literally everything that moves.

As they say, history may not repeat, but it sure does rhyme. US with indigenous Americans. Nazis with Jews. Israelis with Palestinians.

#NeverAgain #NeverAgainMeansNeverAgain

All along, pointing out that Bibi is genociding Palestinians has been met with "But we don't like him!". The problem is, the vast majority of the reason Israelis don't like him has to do with his judicial reforms and, later, his indifference to the fate of hostages held by Hamas. None of that has to do with what I'm talking about though!

I'm glad Israelis are protesting Netenyahu, but it's only because Israelis are being killed because of their (in)action, especially in the case of the majority. When you're brainwashed to view Palestinians as the enemy (like the US is brainwashed to view Muslims as the enemy), it's understandable that they don't mind the number of Palestinians being murdered. *But we still need to call it out*. Understandable does not mean that I agree with it.

It's a bait-and-switch designed to redirect criticism of Israeli writ large (that it's a settler-colonial state hell-bent on stealing the remaining Palestinian land) to criticism of Bibi specifically and it's bullshit.