YES. YES. VOTERS COLLECTIVELY DECIDE ELECTIONS.

That comment is exactly why fascists are running the USA, congratulations.

Not shitting on them every opportunity would be a start. Most would consider it the bare minimum, if thats 1000x effort for you then that sounds like a skill issue.

At this point it doesn’t matter if we voted for Harris if we didn’t support them and do everything in our power to convince everyone else to do the same.

Harris lost because she wasn’t perfect and that is OUR faults for constantly complaining about them.

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But you would build resistance to both over about three weeks.

Egypt doesn’t even have a strong relationship with itself right now, and most of your list has closer relationships with Iran, Russia, and China. Hell, one of the most adversarial nation in the region, Iran, have been accused of being too friendly with the USA by Saudi Arabia leading to strained relationships.

Here is a picture of Jordan’s King Abdullah II visiting the Kremlin in person.

This is a proxy war. Nobody is really on anybody else’s side unless they’re surrounded by enemies and desperate for aid. Israel is that ally. Even Afghanistan turned out to be more against than they were with the USA.

I want it to change, I really do, I think there is an avenue for peace some day, but as it stands right now doing nothing will result in more bloodshed than propping up a bad ally and minimizing the harm they do.

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But yeah keep talking out your ass about how “safe” people are as a result of the ceasefire from before Trump even entered office.

jfc you’re really acting like massive explosive ordinance shipments being halted doesn’t have any impact so you can justify helping elect an actual genocidal fascist?

“I don’t want many many more women and children to burn to death trapped under rubble while their families watch” should have been more than enough for people to stomach another Harris administration.

Like what? Negotiating peace while keeping Israel as a strong militaristic ally in the middle east is the only option for the DNC. If I were running the show I would depose Netanyahu and reorganize Israel military, but if I ran for US president on that platform I’d get fuck all for votes just like Bernie Sanders did in the primaries.

I haven’t seen polls specifically for people who stayed home, but anybody who voted Trump over the economy is just really really dumb.

2020 total votes for Biden 81,283,501

2024 total votes for Harris 75,017,613

So I was actually over, the real difference was 6.27 Million.

They had a chance under Biden. He was withholding large bombs and putting pressure on Netanyahu to end the conflict.

Now the bombs are being delivered and Trump is putting pressure on Netanyahu to finish the conflict.

USA withheld weapon shipments under Biden, and according to white house staff Biden would regularly cuss out Netanyahu over the phone for harming civillians.

Whether you believe it or not, the Biden admin was constantly trying to negotiate ceasefire, but when they presented their deal with hostage release as a bargaining tool in the UN it got vetoed by Russia and China.

A lot of people here on lemmy believe fiercely that both sides were equally bad about it, and it is exactly that sentiment that led to 6.6 Million former DNC voters staying home while a fascist took power.

Maybe the fact that the Biden administration withheld 2000 lbs bombs from Israel and Biden repeatedly cussed Netanyahu out over the phone? Maybe because the genociders backed the Trump presidency fiercely?

Btw those held weapons shipments were happily continued by Trump earlier.

Xi and Trump seem to coordinate pretty closely. If Trump weakened US cohesiveness and Xi stepped in, Trump would thank him and kiss his ass.

They say they have a plan to give money directly to the states instead. So far nobody has seen or heard this plan.

Even if such a plan exists, that still sounds like they’re taking a stockpile of vehicles and personnel and getting rid of it all only to be unprepared for all future disasters.

But the industrial rocks are 90% manmade, the stonesetter diamonds were mined with slave labour or close to it, and people probably died for them.

I respect jewelers and stonesetters as an art, but the rock itself has negative value in my eyes.