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if you're arrested in the us, you have to be charged or released within a specific timeframe

they can't just detain you indefinitely for fun

If you're in a safe seat, then no they don't care about your vote as much, so they don't care about your protest vote as much.

If you're in a swing seat, then they care about your vote more, and therefore your protest vote has more weight.

Democrats caring about your vote is by definition inexorably linked to how powerful your vote is.

But since we're talking hypotheticals, if there's another genocide in 5 years, why would the democrats spend political capital to prevent it if they have solid data to show that they don't need to bother and can still win reelection?

That they can just point out how much worse the republicans might be in this scenario? You think Trump will be the only bad potential president? You think if you can get past this one election that US politics will return to "normal"? There's more or less always going to be a Trump from now on.

palestine is a unique situation? buddy there's literally three attempted genocides going on at the moment. it's not unique by any stretch of the imagination

the math is pretty clear

for the immediate next election cycle, yes

for the next time there's a palestine, very much no

trump's platform seems more to be "the election was stolen", which his base believes

biden's base on the other hand is horrifically split over his mishandling of israel, and arguably the demographics that are credited with democratic wins in 2022 are most effected

his poll numbers are in the shitter, and over the last two presidential elections polls have been incorrectly biased towards the democratic candidate

an incumbent has literally never lost a primary

biden was always more or less guaranteed to be the democratic nominee if he wanted to be

and one of those elections he won?

also, during the 2020 campaign, trump's base's biggest complaint was generally that he was running on a platform of "i'm not biden", so i guess both cancelled out

historically "vote for us because we're not them" is a very ineffective way of winning elections

i don't think the current round of genocide will last until january, no, whether or not a state called palestine is left standing or not

you're trading in the lives of the next palestine

continuing to vote for the mildly genocidal party is not going to make the mildly genocidal party less genocidal

why would you expect substantial change at any point if you re-elect a party after they spent a year propping up a genocide?

implying palestine will last until january

oh ho ho

if you're fine with the trade off, make the trade off and vote biden

just don't pretend the trade off isn't happening

when tate was initially arrested he was held for months without being charged

when tate was initially arrested he was held for months without being charged

i'm not defending tate he deserves to rot in prison

i'm saying that a government shouldn't have the power to just dump you in prison without having a reason for it

when tate was initially arrested he was held for months without being charged

being absolutely fine with a system that allows that because in this instance it happened to fall onto a guy you don't like is brain rot

you think the osu protestors that were just released without being charged would've been released at all without a law requiring them to be charged within 24 hours?

banning and deleting your multiple accounts troll accounts defending Tate

i have literally no idea what you're talking about and it makes you sound unhinged

why would you assume a change of policy at all over any timescale if you keep electing people propping up a genocide?

you can talk around it with all the mental gymnastics you like, but ultimately voting for biden is a signal to the democratic party that their base doesn't care about genocide enough to not vote for him, which is all they care about

Hate to break this to you but they do not hear you and they never will.

You're arguing that your vote doesn't matter. If that's true, why vote at all?

Your vote can't simultaneously be important enough to swing an election, and insignificant enough that the democratic party is fine to just ignore it. So which is it?

larian isn't making bg4, and hasbro are

absolutely

going to fuck it up trying to milk it