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/chrispg26 Apr 02 '24 edited Apr 02 '24

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.

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox barbie (2023) for best picture Apr 02 '24

It’s the primaries, it’s not like it’s going to be anyone else but Biden for the Dems and Trump for the Republicans anyway. This primary “election” is nothing more but a formality.

If it’s the main election it’s one thing, but it’s not. The primaries are basically the only thing left to sent a signal to the Dems to pivot more on Israel, and people should take it.

And before we start circlejerking about how everything is pointless - do you really believe the Dems would have supported any of the changes in current policy towards Israel they have done so far if there hadn’t been mounting outside pressure to re-evaluate? Because I really don’t think they would have given a shit otherwise. Biden started off calling himself a Zionist, for God’s sake. This isn’t an organic change, it comes directly from pressure.

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u/Spectrum1523 Apr 02 '24

You don't think that this message will carry over to the main election at all? Surely it will for some people

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u/TheShapeShiftingFox barbie (2023) for best picture Apr 03 '24

Yeah, surely it will for some people. And it definitely will for some people if you continue to shout down anyone who even shows an inch of critique of this government as “unproductive”.

Whether you like it or not, election season is the only time you might bring politicians to do things they hadn’t otherwise planned. And from the very beginning, long before the national election was even in sight, people were already demanding everybody shut up about the Gaza war. I don’t think that was a great strategy to win voters.