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Dems for Some Reason Expect Trump to Follow the Law on Detention of Mahmoud Khalil
(theintercept.com)
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Now you're getting it. The oligarchy and right wing propaganda machine successfully turned Liberals against the left for drawing a line in the sand at genocide...
Liberals: "should we blame our party for being bought and paid for by the oligarchy? Should we blame ourselves for failing to motivate the 100M adults who sit out each election? For supporting genocide? No, we'll blame the radical left "protest voters" for Trumps win, without evidence that they had any meaningful impact! This is all their fault!"
Well, yes and no:
Yes, in the sense that the oligarchy is responsible for constructing the system to create the dilemma (support some genocide by voting for Harris, or support even more genocide by not voting for Harris) in the first place.
No, in the sense that the game theory of the situation (a binary choice between Harris and Trump with no -- let me repeat that: no -- viable third choice) dictated that the only moral option was voting for Harris in order to minimize harm. People (including liberals and leftists) being pissed off at third-party voters and non-voters for refusing to acknowledge that reality and act accordingly isn't the result of "propaganda," it's the result of having a brain that works properly.
Finally, I just want to make it crystal clear that this isn't the either/or you seem to think it is. We absolutely can blame both the bought-and-paid-for Democrats and the protest-voting dipshits, and I (being a leftist with a functioning brain) very much do.