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“There’ll be people that they’ll DM me like, ‘You see what your boy’s doing? You voted for this.’ I’m like, ‘I voted for none of this,’” he said. “He’s doing the exact opposite of everything I voted for. I want him to stop the wars—he’s funding them. I want him to shrink spending, reduce the budget—he’s increasing it.”
No, buddy. You DID vote for this. You absolutely voted for ALL of this because everything Trump is doing now, he promised, and campaigned on. And you yourself noted he’s a Lying Liar that Lies. So you absofuckinglutely voted for all of what’s going on right now.
“When you feel like the status quo will do nothing and change nothing, you have way more of a longer leash for the outsiders’ ideas than you do the status quo’s ideas,” he said. “And I think that was the idea with Trump, who’s like, ‘Maybe he will stop these wars.’ No. ‘Maybe we will see what’s up with this Epstein s–t.’ No.”
Take it from somebody who grew up as the Shitgibbon did. He used you. Just like he’s used everyone else. You thought he’d expose himself as being a kiddy-diddler? Take the legal risk of being jailed, losing his whole Teflon schtick? Fuck no, that’s for the LITTLE people. Like you!!! And maybe you can wrap your head around this little fact. All politicians have their issues, mainly because the guy you pick is opposed by everyone else who wants the pie all to their own. But Trump is worse than most!
Consider this. Israel and Palestine are gonna fight. They’re in an impossible situation. There are only 2 ways they move forward. One is that they agree not to retaliate when struck, and to handle aggression internally and swiftly. The second is that one of them ceases to exist. No US presidential candidate was going to make one of those things happen.*
So… the resolution of Israel/Palestine genocide wasn’t on the table for the US presidential election in 2024, in the same way that the issue of Chinese treatment of Uyghurs wasn’t on the table, or the UK rejoining th EU, or Mexican drug cartels foregoing violence. People who voted 3rd party, or didn’t vote risked all the fascist stuff trump has done in the last 6 months, and all the shit he’s going to do in the next 3.5 years, in an attempt to wash their hands of an issue that wasn’t up to them to decide in the first place. So they took a large risk on everything for the extremely slim possiblity of at best gaining absolutley nothing, and now they go around crowing like they made the right decision. To me, it’s like someone watching a burning bus , and as people are trying to rescue victims, they say “well at least I didn’t decide to leave people behind on the bus, unlike those jerks” and the gesturing wildly at singed good samaritans who tragically weren’t able to get everyone out of the blaze.
But if you’re stating harris voters are still responsible for genocide then you’re saying the Good Samaritan should be blamed too. If the Good Samaritan is tried for not doing enough and found guilty and so is the bystander, then people are encouraged to be the bystander because at least then they didn’t choose to get burned up in addition to being held responsible for something. If you want people to help you have to have Good Samaritan laws. If you want people to vote Harris you have to give dem voters grace when the candidate does something they disagree with and they call it out. You can’t just tell Harris voters “you voted for this” when Gaza is bombed while also telling trump supporters and nonvoters the same thing. At some point you leave people with no moral opinions so they check out or stop caring about your concept of morality since it cannot be lived up to.
Sure, the good samaritan had to leave someone to die in the fire because they can fucking carry everyone. Life is full of hard choices, and most of the time you have to pick the least bad option. Deal with it.
My point is that it’s not helpful to tell Good Samaritans they’re responsible for the people they couldn’t help. We don’t generally do that as a society. So if you think it was a given that people in Gaza were going to get hurt either way, blaming Harris voters for genocide on her term would also not be helpful (unless they’re saying they’re pro genocide). If you want people to vote for harm reduction, you can’t blame them when the candidate fails to do everything right, especially if they were vocally against that specific policy.
The point is that the “blame” doesn’t matter, it was all something the byststander decided to lean into to justify their decision not to help. Yes, the good samaritan had to decide to leave someone behind. They made a decision, someone who could have lived died because of it. The samaritan has to live with that for the rest of their life.