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This is some weapons grade stupidity. Virtually all the pols in DC are responsible for spending to support Israel. To try and suggest that it's only the dems doing it is disingenuous at best. And whatever you think Harris will do when it comes to Israel, Trump is guaranteed to do far, far worse.
Trump to Israel: “You have to finish up your war. You have to finish it up. You’ve got to get it done,”
I have Ukrainian heritage, although I am a third-generation immigrant elsewhere. I have to ask myself, would I be able to grasp this point if I lived in a country where both parties funded Russia to invade Ukraine? I probably wouldn't, because people are dead, and my family is still being killed.
Tell me: what is worse than that?
Let us imagine I am being told that I can vote for Party A, which will hasten to support the hostile government of another country to kill my family in (let's say) 12 months. Or I can vote for Party B, which will put the breaks on so that it happens in 24 months, and they will also keep saying how unacceptable that is.
Is that really a choice?
I hear you on feeling like the lesser of two wrongs isn't a choice.
But, if you had a choice between the two. Would you prefer to poke out an eye or burn a finger?
Both options being bad doesn't mean they're equally bad. And sometimes we really do have to choose between the better of two bad options.
That's just life.
I don't think either choices are comparable to widespread death of innocents.
It's a trolley problem. Do you vote harris and kill X people? Or vote trump and kill X+X people?
The trolley will kill people either way. Do you let it lean left and kill some people? Or lean right and kill many more?
Better analogy?
I have no interest in the trolley problem.
Then why did you post this thread?
Because like it or not the current political system in the US is a trolley problem. It's a very binary do we go this way or do we go that way?
If you have no interest in the problem, then don't pay attention to US politics and don't make posts about it.
Ah, says the person who takes an extremely simplified hypothetical moral problem that doesn't tend to occur in real life and then equates that to a complex political system.
I have no interest in the trolley problem because it's used by idiots to justify making the world worse. There is no lesson to learn from it, other than "people can rationalise any action". I'm not having children, I hope your descendants manage to make the world better in your place.
I told you I thought you were being disingenuous and now you're resorting to personal attacks calling me an idiot, and bringing my kid into it.
I think that says a lot about your ego. And any political positions you derive from it.
Nice conversation, take care.