I agree with this, but I’d amend to say Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with the support of BOTH the democratic and Republican parties committed genocide. The suggestion that this wasn’t also absolutely a bipartisan effort always rubs me incorrectly. And it is also reflected in how we talk about the election choices. America has a long histo…
I agree with this, but I’d amend to say Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with the support of BOTH the democratic and Republican parties committed genocide. The suggestion that this wasn’t also absolutely a bipartisan effort always rubs me incorrectly. And it is also reflected in how we talk about the election choices. America has a long history of imperial violence. Anyone who paid taxes here in the past 4 years contributed. No one is innocent of “supporting genocide” when we zoom out. I don’t know what’s right to say, but I am personally completely disgusted that anyone voted for Trump to take away our rights when he had always planned to do this. Two genocides don’t make a right, it would seem.
I'm bagging most of what you're raking. I have nothing but condescending things to say/think about Trump voters. It was a bipartisan genocide and even us cogs in the machine have blood on our hands.
But when I zoom out, the culpability of tax payers and folks suckered into voting for a conman seems trifling compared to the failures of the Democratic party. Our media is broken, flooded with grifters + misinformation. Ppl don't always have the time in the day or the education to sort the lies from the truth. The Democrats call Trump an existential threat, but they don't treat him like one. They laugh with him at public events, welcome him home when he returns to the White House. They didn't even wait for all the votes to be counted before conceding defeat or call for a recount. They felt it was important to demonstrate peaceful transition of power, but if the incoming president is an existential threat to democracy, is that really what we want?
As someone who has always voted blue, it's the Democrats who let me down. Trump's campaign was just a louder version of his first one, exploiting the same weaknesses in the media and the Democratic party. None of it was surprising, but they ignored the demands of the moment in favor of running the campaign they wanted to run. They alienated voters by palling around with Liz Cheney and conceding to the right's narrative on the border, leaving demographics vulnerable to Trump's lies. It's all so frustrating + stupid. I like Harris/Walz. It would have been an improvement over Biden and obviously better than what we have now.
They had a real shot after Biden dropped out, going into the convention. We wouldn't be in this situation if they'd stuck with the weird line, left Liz Cheney at home, let Rep Romman give her speech at the convention and maybe not sent Bill Clinton and RItchie Torres to Michigan. Just a ridiculous campaign. I hate Trump/Musk and all the idiots, bigots and ghouls who are having a good time with what's happening, but it's the Democrats who got us here, not the voters who were not convinced by their message.
(BTW: Big fan of your work. Disagreeing with you even a little fills me with fear, but I had to follow my heart).
We don't need to zoom out, though. In the end it didn't matter who supported his decisions, Biden had legal authority to stop arms shipments to Israel, and instead chose to expedite them. Other politicians supporting him doesn't absolve him, and bringing taxpayer contribution into the conversation is losing the trees for the forest when those taxes are compulsory and we don't directly choose how that money is spent. Maybe none of us are "innocent", but some of us are more guilty than others, and Biden- who had direct power to end our involvement and instead accelerated it- is certainly the guiltiest.
Sure, but Biden wasn’t on the ballot, and this refusal to engage with JD as culpable now proves this isn’t about who is actually responsible. And calling everyone genocide supporters when they had the same shit options to choose between really isn’t helping a soul in Palestine.
I agree with this, but I’d amend to say Joe Biden and Kamala Harris with the support of BOTH the democratic and Republican parties committed genocide. The suggestion that this wasn’t also absolutely a bipartisan effort always rubs me incorrectly. And it is also reflected in how we talk about the election choices. America has a long history of imperial violence. Anyone who paid taxes here in the past 4 years contributed. No one is innocent of “supporting genocide” when we zoom out. I don’t know what’s right to say, but I am personally completely disgusted that anyone voted for Trump to take away our rights when he had always planned to do this. Two genocides don’t make a right, it would seem.
I'm bagging most of what you're raking. I have nothing but condescending things to say/think about Trump voters. It was a bipartisan genocide and even us cogs in the machine have blood on our hands.
But when I zoom out, the culpability of tax payers and folks suckered into voting for a conman seems trifling compared to the failures of the Democratic party. Our media is broken, flooded with grifters + misinformation. Ppl don't always have the time in the day or the education to sort the lies from the truth. The Democrats call Trump an existential threat, but they don't treat him like one. They laugh with him at public events, welcome him home when he returns to the White House. They didn't even wait for all the votes to be counted before conceding defeat or call for a recount. They felt it was important to demonstrate peaceful transition of power, but if the incoming president is an existential threat to democracy, is that really what we want?
As someone who has always voted blue, it's the Democrats who let me down. Trump's campaign was just a louder version of his first one, exploiting the same weaknesses in the media and the Democratic party. None of it was surprising, but they ignored the demands of the moment in favor of running the campaign they wanted to run. They alienated voters by palling around with Liz Cheney and conceding to the right's narrative on the border, leaving demographics vulnerable to Trump's lies. It's all so frustrating + stupid. I like Harris/Walz. It would have been an improvement over Biden and obviously better than what we have now.
They had a real shot after Biden dropped out, going into the convention. We wouldn't be in this situation if they'd stuck with the weird line, left Liz Cheney at home, let Rep Romman give her speech at the convention and maybe not sent Bill Clinton and RItchie Torres to Michigan. Just a ridiculous campaign. I hate Trump/Musk and all the idiots, bigots and ghouls who are having a good time with what's happening, but it's the Democrats who got us here, not the voters who were not convinced by their message.
(BTW: Big fan of your work. Disagreeing with you even a little fills me with fear, but I had to follow my heart).
We don't need to zoom out, though. In the end it didn't matter who supported his decisions, Biden had legal authority to stop arms shipments to Israel, and instead chose to expedite them. Other politicians supporting him doesn't absolve him, and bringing taxpayer contribution into the conversation is losing the trees for the forest when those taxes are compulsory and we don't directly choose how that money is spent. Maybe none of us are "innocent", but some of us are more guilty than others, and Biden- who had direct power to end our involvement and instead accelerated it- is certainly the guiltiest.
Sure, but Biden wasn’t on the ballot, and this refusal to engage with JD as culpable now proves this isn’t about who is actually responsible. And calling everyone genocide supporters when they had the same shit options to choose between really isn’t helping a soul in Palestine.