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That's actually not a fair comparison, because Wernher von Braun was an a real engineering genius as opposed to someone that just takes credit for engineering achievements of others.
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But what if some of the owners of the blue house decided it'd be a great idea to take a reciprocating saw to some of the structural framing, with the people living in the red house rather suspiciously possibly telling them exactly where those beams might be located?
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You mean trump threats at Canada, Denmark?
It sucks. Horrifically sucks. It's the best gift for putin, and I wouldn't be surprised if he directly told trump or trump's handler what to do to weaken NATO or make it crumble. That combined with him going for "deals" which will favor russia... It's bad.
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Sure, as someone that voted to prevent what was evidently the absolutely horrific option for absolutely everyone is at fault, not those that protest voted/nonvoted out of ignorance.
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Technically it is the far right that won the election outright, unlike in Germany where it was more contested. The far left with the protest votes/nonvotes smugly thinking "yeah I sure showed them" did however help them.
The FO phase of FAFO is going to be "interesting" for everyone involved.
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It's not even day one yet...
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Obviously, to those that want to stop genocide, including myself, that happens to not be a tiny little thing. But I did my own research, and voted for Harris to stop and prevent genocide. And I'm talking about more than one genocide here, despite responses to me being only laser focused on one.
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I've no idea what that is referring to, but clearly that is not a tiny thing to you. So if one of the candidates supported that, and the other one didn't, I'm hope you voted for the right candidate to handle it appropriately.
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Nothing. Continue as you were assuming that the two are either the same or Biden is worse.
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Are you pretending like trump's blatantly clear and obvious pro-Israel and anti-Palestine stance doesn't exist and never existed? Maybe his entire first term was a figment of our imagination?
You're free to keep laughing until trump makes all his promises with Israel come to pass.
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I don't think you quite understand what an oligarchy is. No, we did not literally have an oligarchy before.
The effort required to keep USA from falling into fascism was titanic. If some helped push in hopes that the fascism will bypass them or will be easy to get out of, will be in for a wild ride.
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Tell me more.
www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...
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I appreciate that you likely wrote that with a straight face despite the fact that we now have a literal oligarchy with the richest person in the world in charge, manipulates elections in liberal countries to elect outright Nazis, and have just enriched themselves by 10s untraceable billions more
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Unfortunately, all we have are two parties, and we all have to deal with the outcomes of one of them coming into power.
And yes, that's an undemocratic position. Crimes should be punished according to the law, and bad politicians removed via democratic processes as long as those still exist.
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Aaaand blocked.
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Biden deported or threatened to deport pro-Palestine protestors?
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Given that Hitler and Nazis murdered members of my family, and currently neonazis are trying to murder members of my family, you can just go straight to my blocklist.
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And what do those percentages look like for republicans in your scenario?
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Again, leave me out of your wild fantasies.
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I have no idea what your obsession with Nazism is about, but leave me out of it.
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Er, trump was talking about protesters here in USA. No, Biden or Harris didn't do and didn't campaign on anything of the sort.
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Which blindspot? The one that happened after the election?
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Well trump likes to promise a lot.
www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/p...
But purely based on his past actions, it's clear that trump would, for example, support a complete annexation of Gaza by Israel. Especially since he's currently threatening to have USA annex three other countries.
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Have you looked at trump's past actions and positions as well as campaign statements at all? Does the future and the past matter to you at all, or only the present?
www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...
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So I'm supposed to completely ignore trump's past political actions, positions, campaign positions, campaign promises, campaign retoric on Israel and Palestine... But assume that Harris will continue with Biden's policies despite her making the following statements?
www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...
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How is that me "hopping onboard with genocide"? Again, I don't support genocide. My family was in one, and is in an area of one currently. But there's more than one.
www.genocidewatch.com/countries-at...
I voted based on my needs, and I still see Harris as better than what's coming for all listed.
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I don't support genocides. Not sure why you assumed otherwise.
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I mean, you never asked. But it's about the genocide in Ukraine.
The actions in trump's first presidency were, policy-wise, massively pro-Israel. Example: www.reuters.com/graphics/ISR...
He continued that this election cycle, with even worse rhetoric. We have four years to see just how much worse.
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I didn't reference anything specific. Each person has their own reasons to not vote or vote against a candidate, some large, some small. Some people have actually voted against Harris only because she was a woman, for example. Which is petty and completely ridiculous.
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Yes. For my own personal cause, he was awful.
The alternative was far worse still.
I don't know why you felt the need to insult me. If you don't like talking with me, feel free to mute or block, but you're the one that initiated it.
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Erm. Is there some sort of gatekeeping process there? I align myself more with the left than the right. Is that insufficient? Should I give you a political test result or something?
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Sorry for having an opinion.
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I've simply done my research, as well as looked at the prior actions of trump during his first presidency. Based on that it was clear to me that he would be far more pro-Israel and far more anti-Palestine.
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Why is it a deflection? To me, my particular genocide was my primary voting reason above anything else, including your genocide.
I do think that the two coincide, in that the upcoming president will be far worse for both of us, but that's not directly related to what you asked.
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Everyone is entitled to their own cases of when to use their protest votes/nonvotes, and they are also entitled to the consequences of their protest votes/nonvotes.
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I appreciate that you inserted yourself into this discussion just to ignore my response.
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I understand that you feel very strongly about Democrats needing to fully support your views and to earn your vote. I wish they also fully supported my own views.
I also wish we had ranked choice voting, and other plurality type voting systems.
We don't always get what we wish for.
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My own primary issue was in fact genocide, but not the one you are probably referring to.
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I do not advocate for extremism while the democratic processes remain intact.
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Nowhere did I say or insinuate that.
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Sorry to disappoint. Multiple political tests confirm that my views are in fact left of center. Progressive, too.
I have my own list and views of why the Democrats did not get the presidency, but Democratic party chasing after the protest vote/nonvote won't rank very high on that list.
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My reply had nothing in it about giving up.
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Sometimes protest votes or protest nonvotes are a perfectly valid option. Just so happens that in this particular election they were not, in my opinion. The status quo was perfectly reasonable, again in my opinion, and far preferable to technochristofascism threatening the entire Western democracy.
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"A republic, if you can keep it". I do hope that Europe and Canada won't make the same mistakes.
But as long as elections keep happening, and voting remains open and secure, it's ultimately up to the people to enact change, if they want to, within those democratic norms. And/or protest, peacefully.
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I'm honestly not sure what you're saying. I'm a minority and on the left, and I didn't think that the Democrats abandoned me. If someone else feels that way, they are perfectly entitled to have that opinion as long as they are cognizant of how they'll be treated under trump's government instead.