Israel is a nuclear-armed nation, it is as immune to large-scale ground invasion as N Korea or Pakistan. They do not need our thousand pound bombs, nor our military alliance. This just isn’t the 80s anymore.
Similarly, Reagan wasn’t facing a criminal trying to take down his own justice system, relying fully on being propped up by ethno-nationalists that want Palestine, all of it, exterminated, just to maintain his own position.
We could probably stop them, if we threatened them with severe economic sanctions. Cutting off the weapons would simply make Netanyahu use even more indiscriminate tactics though, like starving them all, or firebombing the whole place. He can’t accept a permanent cease fire though, because one would cost him, him personally, everything he has left.
That’s the problem with strongmen. They don’t actually give a fuck about people, just themselves. And they’d rather be an evil tyrant than a loser.
Probably can’t fix that with a phone call, don’t you think?
Also, Netanyahu has been planning this for years. It’s exactly why he helped Hamas get control of Gaza in the first place. He has had a plan to wipe out Palestine for a long time now and he’s finally been able to implement it.
No, he couldn't. Netanyahu is in charge and he's been looking forward to this for ages. He is not in America's (much less Biden's) pocket. He has his own powerful military at his beck and call.
They both have the same amount of letters in their last name, both have kids that struggle with substance abuse, both don’t want to retire. What’s the difference?
He also said there are hundreds of qualified people to run against Trump, so here we all are. Democrats are not serious about winning, if they were they would have primaried Biden
If Trump gets elected, my queer daughter could very well be part of a domestic genocide. For my daughter’s sake, and the sake of all other queer people in America, Trump cannot be allowed back into office.
So please tell me who I should vote for to keep my daughter safe.
And while Republicans are creating the environment that threatens your daughter, Democrats have done jack shit to counteract it. Republicans targeting trans didnt start overnight, it’s been going on for years, so Dems have had years to protect them, yet here we are. Their inaction allows Republican action.
The choice is yours but neither Biden nor Trump will keep her safe. As someone that’s been out since Reagan the quality nor safety of my life has been safe regardless which shade of fascism runs the government.
Again, please tell me who I should vote for to keep my daughter safe.
Because your answer so far seems to be ‘not Biden.’ That means you think Trump does not already have a record of oppressing queer people (he does)- therefore vote for Trump, that Biden’s record is worse (please show evidence of this)- therefore vote for Trump, or that they’re both equally bad in that regard and so I should vote for the person who has a chance of defeating both of them.
So is it that I should vote for Trump or is it that there is a third option that you refuse to name?
Nothing is going to happen in 2024 to your daughter. Trump is going to screw over some Mexicans and Arabs like he did in 2016 and that’s it.
America needs to move way further to the right until Adolf Hitler2 with Nazi tattoos shows up before you see domestic Genocide.
And that will happen if the current cycle of “picking the lesser evil” continues. Because America will keep shifting to the right.
Either you break the cycle or eventually you will actually reach the Genocide point. If the Democrats learn that they can be Republicans and win elections, they will keep being republicans.
I don’t need to ask. They think I should vote for Cornell West at the expense of my daughter’s life.
I doubt you give a shit about queer people either.
And if I asked you, you’d probably say you do. And then tell me that I shouldn’t try to save my daughter’s life by voting for a candidate who has a legitimate chance of winning but instead vote for the guy who is a write-in for most states.
Because you likely also do not give a shit about queer people.
Funny thing about bigots. So many of them hate to admit it.
Americans who do not hide their adherence to traditional religious beliefs about homosexual conduct will be ‘labeled as bigots and treated as such’ by the government
What you have said to me so far was that Cornel West has a chance because he has 3% of the vote and that I should ask someone instead of saying they don’t give a shit about queer people.
The first is a laughably ignorant understanding of statistics, polling and elections. The second is just laughable.
You have told other people, however, to vote for West or Stein. Neither of which has a statistically likely chance of winning. Something very unusual would have to happen for them to win. So instead of stopping the coming queer genocide, you think people should vote for an almost guaranteed loser.
You don’t give a shit about queer people and neither does your buddy.
A absolutely can determine that you don’t give a shit about queer people.
It is obvious that none of this concerns you enough to act on it:
At CPAC in 2023, Daily Wire host Michael Knowles gave a speech where he said, “Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” In response to people who said that he was calling for genocide, Knowles stated that “nobody [was] calling to exterminate anybody”.[25] As part of his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to stop gender-affirming care for minors, calling it “child mutilation.”[26] Project 2025, a document outlining intended conservative policies, called “purveyors” of “transgender ideology[. . .]child predators and misogynistic exploiters of children.”[27] Project 2025 conflates transgender people with pornography, and calls for pornography to be outlawed, for teachers and librarians who talk about transgender people to be imprisoned, and all telecommunications that allows transgender people to talk on it to be shuttered.[28]
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Some US laws have been described, including by journalists Emily St. James and Katelyn Jones, as meeting criteria mentioned in the United Nations definition of genocide, including laws banning gender-affirming care (“causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part”), and those allowing child protective services to pursue child abuse claims against the parents of children receiving gender-affirming care and remove said children (“forcibly transferring children of the group to another group”).[33][34]
If you gave a shit about queer people, you would be doing everything in your power to keep Republicans out of office, including their presidential candidate to stop this genocide.
But this isn’t a convenient genocide for you to accuse people of supporting, this is a genocide of “icky” people. So that’s an acceptable genocide.
>Sorry… you don’t think voting for Biden is an effective way to stop Trump and the Republicans from implementing project 2025?
no. the republicans will work toward that no matter how i vote, and biden has been in power in washington for the 50 years that lead to the current state. i don't believe voting for him will stop any of it.
trump didn't write p2025. it's the republican machine, which will maintain basically all of its power regardless of the outcome in november, which will be implementing it.
What, specifically, apart from “tell people on the internet not to vote for Biden” (which you oddly think is helping) have you done about the ongoing queer genocide in the United States?
>What, specifically, apart from “tell people on the internet not to vote for Biden” (which you oddly think is helping) have you done about the ongoing queer genocide in the United States?
i do most of my organizing in meatspace. join me some time.
they already control some of the states, legislature-and-executive, as well as many of the courts at the state and federal level. having the presidency would make some of the proposals easier, but not guaranteed. having biden in office would make things harder for them, but not a sure loss.
and the difference, that gap between what is inevitable and what is possible-but-not-guaranteed by a trump victory is incredibly slim. further, as i said before, it was democrats who made this system possible, and joe biden has a great deal of the responsibility himself.
so there is no rational case that voting for biden will make things better.
Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (perjorative, perjorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (perjorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect!
I wonder if the mods will take into account you trolling me a couple of minutes ago when I said I wouldn’t reply to multiple posts?
Guess we’ll see.
In the meanwhile, I will maintain that you are a bigot who doesn’t care about queer people and are lying about helping stop the genocide. You can very easily disabuse me of this notion. It seems to me like someone who didn’t like being called those things would be very open to showing why they aren’t.
You certainly haven’t been.
But, again, feel free to tell me what in specific you have done to stop the queer genocide. Can you list even one single thing? Let’s find out.
I deleted my other post to you because I misunderstood what you meant, but I will respond to this one instead.
Your “inbox” nonsense is because you’re on Mastodon and don’t understand how Lemmy works. If you reply to someone multiple times on Lemmy via Mastodon, it splits into two threads.
Maybe don’t use a shitty Twitter clone and learn how the real Internet works.
I can't believe you've taken to attacking the most mature activitypub project. do you think Lemmy is a shitty reddit clone? the real Internet is wherever two or more gather in my name (or something like that)
Thank you. She is the most important thing in my life and I will do anything I can to keep her from harm. And- I know a lot of people make this claim- if Trump wins, we are moving to Europe. I recently found out, based on research my brother and I have been doing, that I’m eligible for German citizenship (my Grandfather was German but renounced his citizenship and became British in 1936. However, my father was born in 1931, making him a German citizen and me a German citizen and my daughter a German citizen) and I’m working on getting us German passports if we have to. We’re also looking up places to live where most people speak English so we can learn the local language while we’re there rather than have to know it before we go. The closer we get to the election, the more I’m going to do to make sure we get the fuck out of here before January 20, 2025 if Trump wins. I will not risk her being put in a “conversion therapy” camp or whatever the fuck they want to do to queer people.
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