I wasn't talking about you, I'm talking about other Dems who, like you, for some reason don't care to show any sympathy or empathy for Palestinians losing their loved ones to genocide under Biden, a Democrat. Voting for a Dem can be self-destructive too, if not destructive, and they're not helping matters by trying to ban criticisms against Israel and ban BDS.
Apparently, republican/Trump supporter. Unsure if this is true though. It doesn't make sense to see another failed attempt on Trump's life, it feels like Trump or his camp are staging this whole thing for support.
You say that, but the last attempt came and went and... well, there wasn't any real consequences... and then the world forgot about it lol. There might've been a small bump in polls I think? Maybe? Either way, turns out this shooter was arrested in 2002 for barricading himself inside of building in NC. How the fuck did this guy still have access to guns after something like that?
Yeah I saw that earlier. If something happens to her, he's not just complicit. He's an instigator.
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You know why. I'll show empathy AFTER we win the election. You don't earn my support with blackmail, you just earn my disdain. Once I'm sure Leftists can't fuck up Kamala's win I'll forgive and forget. No sooner. No sooner.
I don't feel bad for him either, but I still believe we've gotta condemn political assassinations wholeheartedly. Otherwise we get dissensitized to it and it becomes as commonplace as the mass shootings we have nowadays. I don't want presidents being replaced every 4 or 5 months because of the occasional assassination.
Nah, it'll be forgotten in a news cycle and a half. This time there's no video or sick photo-ops.
That's not blackmail, wanting your people to stop being murdered is a normal thing. USA even had few protests on it because of cops' homicidal tendencies! Views like yours are what's making people realize that Dems are not that different from MAGA, they just hide their bigotry or shittiness better.
true but also in Trump's case, I feel like it's all staged to get him sympathy. Maybe the first attempt died out quickly so Trump or his camp asked to stage another one in hopes of getting that more attention.
I thought Leftists and the issues they care about weren't relevant in electoral politics?
They aren't. What am I missing?
I remember 2016 too well to not be skeptical of democrat's optimism about kamala.
Wanting your people to stop being murdered ISN'T the blackmail. It's the "I have this thing that will harm you unless you do what I say." part. The thing in this scenario is: the vote that will determine whether democracy dies or not.
That's unfortunate, but I'm not that torn up about it (anymore). Because I underestimated just how much more of us than there are than you. You know 400 THOUSAND people have just registered to vote in 24 hours just because Taylor Swift said so? How many of those 400k are anti Democrat do you think? How many are running around with watermelon face paint or keffiyeh?
I wasn't really commenting on the optimism tbh, just that it's kind of demonstrated that the first assassination attempt didn't have the impact most people assumed it would (Biden stepping down was a wrench there perhaps) and a second one that isn't done with a billion cameras around isn't as noteworthy either. It's a dud IMO.
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Harris could have put people's money where their mouths are by pledging to end the war and she would have won the race yesterday. Instead she insists upon false equivalencies. If that would have made no real difference then the sort of admonishment you insist upon would be more than justified, but that's not the world we live in unfortunately.
I super doubt it. She can't just say "I'm going to end the war" without taking a hard stance against either Israel or Palestine. Israeli supporters would probably get the wink and nod that they're not actually gonna go against Israeli machinations with any real fervor, but Palestinian supporters would too. Which means more hemming and hawing about who needs to be "dealt with". False equivalencies help with that. All she's gotta do is keep mentioning Hamas in the same breath as Israel and she's safe, because the average American really, really, really doesn't care about this conflict. Really. Lack of understanding (or willingness to understand) about the Israel/Palestine conflict combined with the sting of October 7th, and Leftist inability to criticize brown people makes it easy to be nonplussed about the plight of Palestinians or the pleas of Leftists concerned with said conflict.
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Yeah, obvi... but you can't say that.
We clearly have very different newsfeeds. As far as i can tell trumps not riding the assassination wave anymore but things don't seem dire for him.
I'm not talking about newsfeeds, I'm talking about what kind of impact it'll have. I don't believe there's a notable contingent of voters going "wow they keep trying to kill him, I NEED to vote for this guy" who aren't already voting for him.
pagers AND walkie talkies. It is deeply disturbing that a viable war tactic is targeting devices to explode. I want to know which countries can make which devices turn into bombs..... Or at least how israel is doing this. Jewish space laser?
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I am not in the US but even I met folk who went something "I don't even like trump but seeing the guy immediately after being shot at was fucking inspiring". My newsfeed and twitter stuff were like that for a while as well (of course, this was at a time where Biden would have lost to anything). I suppose it's a bit of a separate discussion but as far as I can tell democrats had and have a serious problem with the latino vote and kamala isn't a solution to that (I do think there's a big difference between first and second/third generations latinos though).
I'm assuming (and I wanna emphasize this is just an assumption) that they snuck some sort of combustable agent into the pagers while they were being manufatured. Something that explodes once the lithium batteries are forced to overheat. Then you just send signals to these pagers through whatever method they normally recieve signals from that overheats the batteries and boom.