• Furbag@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    So you don’t want Biden, but you don’t want Trump either, but you can’t have it both ways. No matter if you turn out to vote or not, you are getting one of those two choices. That’s a fact. We’re stuck in the Prisoner’s Dilemma Election, and it’s time to decide if we’re going to play the game to win or not.

    There’s far more at stake this year than just the fate of Gaza, but shortsightedness is going to kill us.

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        9 months ago

        How is this minimizing genocide? I’ve acknowledged that it’s a serious problem.

        What’s your solution?

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          9 months ago

          Saying that there’s far more at stake than an ongoing genocide minimizes genocide.

          My solution is to protest as loudly as possible and donate my time, money, and energy to stopping genocide, and not waste anyone’s time by trying to inhumanly minimize genocide.

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            9 months ago

            More than one thing can be true at the same time. Stopping the genocide in Gaza is important. Stopping the rise of fascism in America is important. Stopping the erosion of civil liberties in America is important. Minimizing genocide would be me saying “It’s not that bad”, which I don’t believe is true. It is that bad. I just disagree with the apparent strategy that the nascent leftists have embraced, which is to cut off the nose to spite the face, a strategy that will ultimately end up with a continuation of the status quo at best and risks a rapid acceleration of all of the problems I mentioned above in the worst case scenario.

            By all means, protest and donate your money and time to the effort. That seems to be making an impact to some degree.