• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    If only catering to leftists wouldn’t lose critical votes elsewhere. Zero sum.

    Yes, and standing up for labor loses votes from billionaires. What’s your point?

    Whose votes would she be losing? Most people support a ceasefire.

    Besides, a good presidential candidate is a leader who does the right thing and uses persuasion to win over naysayers.

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      Who said she’s not trying to end genocide? Straw-man fallacy.

      Most, not all; you need to start looking at cross-tabs and understanding statistics. Start isolating Jewish-Americans and comparing population size to those staunch progressive and Muslim communities. There’s a reason it was a big deal for Harris to come out as strongly as she did following her meeting with Netanyahu, because it threaded the needle between both groups of the Democratic coalition instrumental in getting Harris elected and ensuring Trump DOESN’T win. Odds are very good that following the election, a Harris administration will become increasingly cold to Netanyahu. It’s quite clear the current Biden administration is fed up with Bibi, but there’s a lot of risk of pulling out aid to Israel months before an election which will then be spun by one of the largest lobbyists, AIPAC, combined with Republicans painting them as anti-semitic. And god forbid if Netanyahu just so happens to ignore intelligence reports again and let’s a false-flag terrorist event happen again after US aid withdrawal — which would then sink the Democrats. THESE are the things you need to start thinking about.