• kava@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    which of these candidates is more likely to respond to any kind of public pressure about this?

    neither. 0.0% chance for either candidate.

    i only voted for kamala because she’s a woman and even though she’s an awful candidate at least we can get it out of our collective system, show little girls they can be president, and the neoliberal status quo is probably still better than Trump

    i’m not entirely sure on that because I think Kamala is more likely to lead us into a war with Russia… but Trump is more volatile in general I think

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      47 minutes ago

      Amazing that you at least did the overwhelming obvious right thing even though your reasons are awful

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        35 minutes ago

        i think breaking the barrier of sex in terms of male/female president is a powerful thing. there’s been so many women throughout history that could have been judith pulgars, politically speaking, and ended up getting pushed into more subservient positions

        that’s the main reason. i dont think that’s an awful reason

        as for the russian war thing, i rather like living in a pre-nuclear-war society.

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      5 hours ago

      neither. 0.0% chance for either candidate.

      This level of cynicism is unwarranted. Sure it might be low, but for Harris it’s at least 0.1%.

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        4 hours ago

        with the current stranglehold the pro-Israeli lobby has on American politics (includes both GOP and DNC) even 0.1% is a stretch

        AIPAC even brags about it: https://aipacorg.app.box.com/s/t8vvqt7evxvgkzn5jktpwejate6oxo0y

        98% of AIPAC endorsed candidates won their election in 2022. if you are a politician and you say something mildly critical of Israel they will go to war with you and do everything so that your opponent wins

        Israel has figured out how to hack American democracy. There is no going back at this point. We are a pro-Israel country for the foreseeable future, regardless of which candidate wins this election or the next one or the next one