“As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now,” the staffers wrote.

  • ikiru@lemmy.ml
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    On the contrary, you are displaying the tremendous privilege of living in the imperial core by being able to choose between “‘genocide’ and ‘genocide even more, and even more local genocide’” and justify literally voluntarily voting to choose genocide in order to make yourself feel more comfortable within the imperial core.

    True fascism taking power in the US means that I and the people around me will be murdered. But I don’t feel the ethical apathy to be able to coldly prefer international genocide of others to keep myself safe at home all the while pretending like I saved the freedom for the entire world as children and whole families are being murdered. Biden is not the progressive savior all of you claimed he was, now at least you admit you chose “genocide”—which I do, and history will, judge harshly.

    If you choose to vote for him again after this, you will consciously approve of genocide and be all the more guilty.

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      Oh well. There is nothing I can do about being born and living here. Since I don’t think my fellow Americans’ reproductive rights should be taken from them, I’ll happily wash my hands in Palestinian blood to do that.

      I mean, I don’t think that’s the actual choice… but if crazy people online say it is, I’ll make that choice. I guess the people actually involved in the conflict will just have to be disappointed.