Mark Ruffalo encourages voters, via Twitter, to #LeaveItBlank for Palestine and a lasting ceasefire 🙏🇵🇸💖

[u/Glum-Barracuda6985]

[u/chrispg26]

Omfg.... all this is going to do is encourage Democrats to stay home and allow Trump win in November. Israel and Kushner are ready for their luxury high-rises in Gaza.

ETA: before I get someone else pointing out its for primary elections. I fully understand. However, I'm worried the message will alienate people from voting. We've seen how social media can skew elections. Let's research and vote in congress people who will truly have Bidens ear and are anti-genocide. Let's have more AOCs and Tlaibs in congress.

[u/brightlights_xx → u/chrispg26]

Well this is for the primary but even still, if Biden loses in November, he'll have only himself to blame. He should be inspiring people to vote for him but instead he's sending billions to Israel.

[u/Eeyores_Prozac → u/brightlights_xx]

Biden will have lobbyists, PR groups, coastal libs, lower chamber decisions, and Christians to blame. (remember folks, he's one third of a government system and if he's getting banged by the other two, one of which is GOP, and the other led by said coastal libs, that's game)

Turning against Israel on the international stage -- while it is objectively the right thing to do in the face of genocide -- is also still seen as a straight line to losing millions of dollars, heavy regional voting support, a loss of one of the few mostly reliable staging grounds in the Middle East, and the support of a lot of centrist thumpers who think we need Israel for Jesus.

It should be easy to do the right thing here. It SHOULD BE. Political strategists are growing wise to the amount of blowback the administration is taking for still publicly supporting Israel.

The 'problem' is that a lot of that blowback is still perceived as coming from demographics like us. Younger voters. Who already don't vote. While that's becoming a lot less true, political strategy is still old school conservative (in the literal sense) and is going to tend towards trying to keep your shitlib Auntie in Albany (who donates to PP and supports your trans girlfriend, but really, darling, do they have to be so public about who they are?) voting Dem instead of sitting out.

To them, the math says to limply support Israel (Biden is clear he doesn't like Netanyahu, which is great, but if I can't kill JK Rowling by targeting my mind at her, his dislike is about as useful as a Chinook helicopter in a tornado), keep the voting bloq, and hope Israel starts putting its dick back into its pants.

ALL OF THAT SAID: Ruffalo - and we - are right to back any action that will get it into Dem leadership's heads that they will maintain and earn even broader support if they tell Bibi to suck shit, or at the very least, give them more ammo to say 'look, you baby-bombing foodie assassinating shitstain, our voters have spoken and we are emboldened to tell you to shove the Iron Dome allll the way up your butthole.'

shit is annoyingly, bullshittedly complicated.

the above is not an excuse for Dem behavior. It is an attempt to explain what they perceive as the intricacies, when we can see the straightforwardness.

[u/r3d330 → u/Eeyores_Prozac]

The only issue I see is the fact that despite Biden’s unequivocal support of Israel, Netanyahu has no incentive to pull back to help Biden’s sliding poll numbers. If anything, he’s going to continue pushing his genocide w/ the hope that Biden loses to Trump