idk what's so hard to people about accepting both the idea that some people are going to legitimately hate biden for his complicity in the assault on gaza and the countervailing idea that if they don't vote for him they're being daft
If there was a UK Prime Minister who I agreed with on 95% of things and his main opponent was Nigel Farage but the 5% was something that I find particularly grotesque and nasty then sorry, but I am at liberty to fucking hate him while also demanding people vote for him, and you can't stop me
I've come to the conclusion that there are 3 types of people who do not understand why people are mad about Gaza, 1. They're bewildered as to why people care about non-Americans, and are hence racist. 2. They are ignorant of the scale of horror, and hence racist. 3. They're happy with it, and hence,
I suppose this fits under #1 but my father is like 🤷♂️ they’ve been fighting each other forever, nothing can be done. (He is racist but he also feels the same about Ukraine so it’s not solely that)
100%
that these two things that shouldn't be true at the same time but are points firmly at the political system not being able to model reality in any kind of sensible way
I think a lot of the objection to this is based on a willful misunderstanding of how much power is wielded by microbloggers. If a random Bluesky user saying "Biden sucks" isn't actually relevant (and it's not) then maybe I'm _not_ doing the work by scolding people to vote on here
