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I mean, it's actually much worse than that, because in this case losing your lunch means losing your best chance to defend yourself and opening yourself to future attacks, maybe on breakfast and dinner.

That doesn't make a lick of sense. To use an analogy, that would be like eating lunch with me and I say "I'm going to take your apple," so you're response is to give me your whole lunch, including the apple.

You literally just had to put a mark on a piece of paper. There's zero obligation afterwards. You could have voted for Harris and denounced her stance on Israel at the exact same time. So many people did just that. Nobody was asking you to sell your humanity.

A large portion of Republicans, including the GHF, believe that war in Israel will bring about the end of days and they will be raptured. There was a clear choice to be made. There were lives on the line. You yourself acknowledged Trump offered a 'bit faster genocide'. Now religious extremists are actively engaged, on the ground, in genocide while carrying an American flag. Because of the election. Because of your choice.

Things have materially deteriorated in Gaza directly because of the election. The Christian Republican org GHF, created in February, is engaged in forced relocations and massacres. Bibi would not have cut off all aid to Gaza in March without Republicans blessing and support. Things would be bad, but there are some policy differences regarding Israel between the parties. These were very very clear if you watched or read about the convention speeches. Harris acknowledged the genocide and said her goal was for Palestinians to have self determination. Trump said a bunch of unhinged shit. But his policy has always been pro genocide.

Yeah, this is kinda ridiculous. If electing Harris would have saved a single Palestinian life, it would've been the correct choice.

Once again, here we are though, in a paradise of your own creation. Isn't it great? Aren't you happy with the state of things? Fascism is in full bloom, access to the polls is shrinking, genocide has sped up. Socialism must be right around the corner, right? Looks like your vote against Harris is going to save the world after all.

Lol yeah voting for Harris was the accelerationist choice. What planet are you on??

We are literally watching your accelerationist theory fall apart at this very moment and you still defend it. This is the result you wanted, right? Democrats got their ass handed to them last November so they were forced to admit their mistakes and began pushing their platform further left and taking stronger stances against Republicans and genocide. Right? Surely by now your theory of voting for the worse outcome should have taught them the correct lesson? You aren't just a useful tool to enable fascism with no upside? Right??

You can be worse or better about genocide, it's unequivocally false to say that all genocides are equal. There was a choice. We could have had less killing or more.

And that's just from the respective platforms. I don't think people realize the extent to which Republicans do not listen to or care about their voters. We had an opportunity to put Harris in office and then berate the shit out of her the entire term to be better. That's not an option anymore. We are very much locked in to whatever braindead idea some billionaire spoons Trump.

I can't help but wonder if your son is shy about his relationship or maybe he has some fear about talking about it with you. It sounds like things are more serious between them than he's telling you. It's not impossible to make new friends as a high school junior, but the way it is described it sounds more likely they are romantically involved, and in that case, expensive gifts aren't very strange for someone in an upper middle class family.

Republicans were like, do these crazy things or we'll cut your funding. Harvard said no. This comes after Columbia mostly acquiesced to similar demands.