• xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    yeah when the choice is between horrible and double super extra horrible, it’s hard to get really motivated to vote for horrible….

    it’s pretty much the genocide version of the trolly problem. palestine genocide is on one track, on the other track, there’s the palestinian genocide, trans genocide, hispanic genocide, and entire planet ecocide…

    the choice is obvious but not particularly inspiring… at least under harris there was some hope of lobbying her to stop… protest at the whitehouse now and trump will try to have you shot… hopefully they refuse next time.

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      33 minutes ago

      The bigger problem was that when you brought up domestic genocides before the election, it got handwaved away as you not caring about Palestinians and also dismissed as not going to happen. I saw this over and over on Lemmy, along with the ludicrous idea that once a genocide has started, it literally can’t get worse because genocide is genocide.

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      4 hours ago

      … you know that’s really an apt comparison. Never thought about it that way but really it’s like a trolley problem except it is their job to shout for people to come up and pull the lever.

      It’s no surprise they had trouble finding volunteers.