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I never once advocated for not voting, voting third party, or voting for trump. Not a single time. All of my advocacy was for the party dropping its support for genocide.
I get that centrists don't like that because they preferred to lose than stop selling weapons for genocide.
Vote like you want? No, you can't do that and still oppose genocide. Oppose genocide without saying how you voted? You must be at fault for not voting like I want!
Can't win with genocide loving garbage. It's clear that you don't care how anyone votes. You just want silence from people who don't agree with your genocide.
You just want silence from the people who don't like selling arms to murder Palestinians with.
During the run up to the election, pro-genocide centrists (there has never been nor ever will be another kind) kept saying "you don't have to agree with harris about everything in order to vote for her!" Guess that was a fucking lie to get chumps like me to vote for genocidal shit.
Centrists scream that progressives are unreasonable for having standards. They holler "purity test!" any time they encounter criticism for anything they do, no matter how reprehensible. But when someone actually compromises their standards like centrists claim to want, they then scream at them for not applying one of the purity tests they claim to hate.
You just want silence from your left while you move so far to the right that genocide is on the table where you want it.
Worse. Naturally.
Now you're going to try to Socratic Method me into silence about the genocide you live for.
The position of the anti-genocide left was held by too few people to make an impact, so we were ignored. Remember?
Of course, this was before you lost and needed someone to blame.
My position doesn't matter, remember? So no. My position did not help trump get elected. No matter how much you disagree with my position that there should be living Palestinians.
If you want to continue to argue that being opposed to your genocide caused trump's election, then you can admit that your party should have listened to the anti-genocide left.
And when centrists run out of arguments for their reprehensible support for genocide, they start calling people children.
Concession accepted.
If you recall, you condemned me for compromising my morals to vote for the pro-genocide candidate you wanted.
I mean, I want to have a party I can vote for without compromising my morals.
Your vote compromised none of yours.
I said I want to have a party that I can vote for without compromising my morals, not that I would not vote.
As you already condemned me for, I voted for harris.
Nope, but the party can get better. Just not with the silence you demand.