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Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing.
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Speaking personally as a brit i'm not going to comment on whatevers going on with the american election but in the case of britain at least im absolutely not going to be voting for Keir Starmer since most of the left neoliberals in this country telling me i have to swallow my pride and vote for the most right wing and second worst (to his "credit", unlike Tony Blair, he doesnt have the blood of a million iraqis on his hands, only 30,000 palestinians) party leader labour's had in recent memory were the exact same people 5 years ago saying they couldnt in good faith vote for the most far left, trans positive labour leader in decades because he criticised Israel which led to the largest conservative majority in years.
Under Sir Kid Starver, Labour stopped members from voting for a ceasefire right at the start of the Palestinian genocide, members have repeatedly been expelled over bogus antisemitism charges, starmerite labour's trying to push to have the NHS privatised, the party has pivoted so far to the right that you have promiment members saying “Margaret Thatcher was a visionary leader for the U.K; no doubt about it", they've proposed policies to segregate trans people out of single sex NHS hospital wards and those are just the things from the last few months or so that i remember off the top of my head.
I'm going to vote for the Greens instead.
I actually guessed that most of those would be true, and the point of view that the message would express, the instant I read "Speaking personally as a brit" and before I expanded the message.
I didn't know the US had a monopoly on democracy.
Also saying they 'claim' lgbtq identity is inherently dehumanizing. Fuck you.
How about you reply to the actual comment instead of attacking the posters character.
Also your account is only 3 months old and you're complaining that their account is newly created? Fuck offffff
I'm saying that they check a bunch of the boxes of a shill account.
Okay though, sure. My response to the content is contained in the OP meme: Even if we posit that Gaza is 100% Biden's doing and he's a lesser evil, which I don't agree with, but even positing that, this "oh boo hoo I have to swallow my pride and vote for the person who doesn't want to impose 30% inflation on Iran for no fucking reason and 'finish the job' in Gaza and separate Hispanic kids from their families and do mass deportations, I don't want to, that would mean swallowing my pride, so I won't and you shouldn't either" viewpoint is childish, incredibly destructive, and probably not a sincere point of view, but instead a deliberate deception to produce an incredibly destructive result in US politics that may do quite a lot of harm to quite a lot of people.
It's born -- if it is sincere -- out of an incredibly selfish and entitled mindset. There are people in the world who don't have the luxury of deciding to do things they do or don't want to; there are hungry families in Iran, dead Kurds, dead Ukrainians, Honduran kids who will never see their families again, who absolutely don't give the slightest shit what you do or don't feel like voting for, or whether you're emotionally motivated to take a single trivial action that you can do that might help keep their families alive. They don't have the luxury of looking at things that way.
That's as it's applied to the US. I'm not really familiar enough with UK politics to say the details of how it applies in the UK -- but the logic is universally bad. For example if someone was saying not to vote against Boris Johnson for the same absolutely bad-faith and horrifyingly wrong reasons, I would feel free to disagree with them firmly in exactly the same way.
one of our accounts is 8 months old and talks about a variety of other general interests and things that arent just to do with politics as well as modding several of the queer comms in lemmy.blahaj.zone; the other is a three month old account that exclusively posts about politics and martialling people to vote for the democrats and stuff, there's far more grounds to call you a "shill" for the democrats than to call me a "shill" for the british Green Party or Jeremy Corbyn or whatever.
and one of the points i made was literally that the people now who are saying to vote for Keir Starmer against Rishi Sunak now are literally the same people who voted for Boris Johnson to stop Jeremy Corbyn coming into power because he was "too left wing" just five years ago but now i have to fall in line behind them when they utterly tanked the labour party and refused to fall in line just a few years ago unless we let them be in charge and push their transphobic neoliberal zionist ideology instead, one of the old mainstays of this group, David Mencer, the former director of Labour Friends of Israel, is now literally working for the Israeli government as an official spokesperson
This is another of the talking points / common misleading framings I see a lot
Just wanted to highlight it -- I feel pretty comfortable with what I already laid out otherwise