• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    They don’t need to, that’s what propaganda is for! They even get LGBTQ people confused/angry enough to vote against their own best interests!

    Source: Gay cousin voting for Trump because he’s mad about Palestine… (This was before the recent genocide) literally nothing to do with him, happening on the other side of the world, but yeah be mad about that and let wolves into the coup… You’re not a tasty chicken to them if you vote for them… That’s how that works right?

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      7 months ago

      Getting people to vote against their best interest is like the only successful thing Republicans have ever really done on a large scale.

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      7 months ago

      cousin voting for Trump because he’s mad about Palestine

      That’s wild, considering Trump went out of his way to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and move the American Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in 2017, the first year of his presidency, thus reigniting hostilities involving same that had been dormant since 1948.

      Because Trump did this – out of the blue and without discernable reason or cause – MANY people, mostly Palestinians, were unnecessarily injured and died in the demonstrations and open violence that followed. People demonstrated around the world to protest this, both before and after the fact: Trump was literally kicking peace accords at the foundation just to watch them crumble, and protests didn’t matter any more than history or peace did to him. He did it anyway, and no one was able to stop him despite the absolute insanity it was to begin with.

      If your cousin gives two shits about Palestine at all, and this pro-Trump position isn’t just performative spite on his part, tell him to read up on this issue. Trump is squarely on the side of “Christian” conservatives trying to force the second coming of Christ, it’s all wrapped up in their bizarre pseudo-Christian mythology, and in the end a vote for Trump is a vote for NO PEACE, ever, anywhere that Netanyahu wants to stretch his own feet.