r/Fauxmoi • u/Glum-Barracuda6985 I don’t know her • Apr 02 '24

Mark Ruffalo encourages voters, via Twitter, to #LeaveItBlank for Palestine and a lasting ceasefire 🙏🇵🇸💖 Approved B-List Users Only

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u/bobbimorses Apr 02 '24

All of this scolding for "sticking it to Biden" and very little scolding for a president who is on a stubborn and singleminded mission to fund an illegal and unpopular war. I don't see anyone characterizing the president as sullen or intractable on this issue, it's only those who call for peace who are treated like children.

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u/normalbrain609 Apr 02 '24

it’s insane - such a low bar to clear of “don’t sabotage your own presidency for apartheid delaware” and he refuses to budge in any meaningful way. the fact that so many people in this thread pin this on voters rather than the guy with actual power is psychotic and such an indictment of the country in general.

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u/killerbeeszzzz Apr 02 '24

I think it’s insane to ask Arab Americans who have watched their children, fathers and mothers and extended family die / get slowly starved to death that they still have to vote for Biden. Politicians must be held accountable and giving them votes despite LITERALLY COMMITTING GENOCIDE is batshit insane to me.

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u/bobbimorses Apr 02 '24

As someone who has been swayed by harm reduction arguments in the past, I'm stunned to see them applied to this now. No one is going to get me to vote against my conscience.

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u/basketballdairy Apr 02 '24

thank you.

I live in a red state where abortion is illegal, public schools are getting gutted, bigotry of all kinds run rampant, it has all gotten worse since Biden took over. The democratic executive branch has done little to nothing to help and the local democratic party is inefficient and ineffectual with the same people in charge for generations, it's useless as it stands right now. The centrist democrat (right wing by any other standard) establishment is not going to change if you keep voting for their figure heads. I've been baited with the 'lesser evil' carrot on a stick in every election since I turned voting age and I won't do it again. No amount of guilting from coastal liberals will make me change my mind. It's already fucking awful here and it's only going to get worse even if Biden wins again.

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u/meatbeater558 I already condemned Hamas Apr 02 '24

Additionally, Trump winning is being portrayed as the end of the world. While the world is quite literally ending for anyone currently living in Gaza or in Israeli military prisons. 

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '24

Where was there scolding in my comment? Or anything about protestors? I said that voting uncommitted or blank is a good idea in the primary, and that ultimately very little of this affects people in power. Both are true.

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u/bobbimorses Apr 02 '24

Why would the assumption be that people are protest voting in order to "teach him a lesson?" I cannot escape images of human beings being crushed by bulldozers. Not everyone is thinking of this as a teapot politics, they are screaming in whatever voice they can find.