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Things that my ideal candidate will be supporting - Palestine - Trans Rights (I’m a trans NB person) - Amtrak (I’m also autistic) Find me a candidate that supports all three and you’ve got yourself a vote
Just kinda curious on stances, DNC candidates (based on the top polled choices from 270towin.com, sorry Beshear fans)
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Kamala Harris
Pete Buttigieg
Gavin Newsom
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Josh Shapiro
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Anonymous 23w

I LOVE HIGH SPEED TRAINS (I am also autism and love public transit)

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Anonymous 23w

Do you want me to run?

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Anonymous 23w

Claudia de la Cruz

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Anonymous 23w

AOC is prob the closest we would get to this who has the popularity to win a national

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Anonymous 23w

You’re describing Joe Biden.

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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 23w

(They don’t know that I’ve been supporting her already 🤫)

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23w

Trains are my passion

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23w

I think you gotta be 35 but you can sure try lol

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 23w

Meet me in 13.5 years

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 23w

California High Speed Rail Project believers are having a tough time right now 😔

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 23w

Texas has no High Speed Rail believers, we have all given up hope

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Anonymous 23w

Negotiated two ceasefires including one right after the war started and consistently pressured Netanyahu to increase aid in the strip and curtail military operations. I feel like you might just want someone who has the correct opinion but also doesn’t care about being effective in geopolitics.

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Anonymous 23w

Russell Wilson won a Super Bowl with his team. I don’t know what sport you watch, but I’m talking about geopolitics. You can poo-poo Biden because he didn’t throw a tantrum and scream “Ceasefire now” on TV the way you wanted him to, but he absolutely was effective in reducing Palestinian casualties and suffering. Trump will allow Israel to ethnically cleanse Gaza and large parts of the West Bank and you will be sat here going “Well, the Democrats are just as bad.” Keep yourself safe.

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Anonymous 23w

Nothing ever came of the wharf because it collapsed after a couple of aid shipments iirc. This is what I mean about geopolitics, although I disagree that it ever became clear that Israel was “targeting” civilians. If that were the case the death toll would be much, much higher, I think in some cases they’ve just been incredibly cavalier with accepting civilian casualties. cont…

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 23w

Do you remember the stories about Israel dropping high yield unguided bombs? They were doing this when possible to avoid using their better precision munitions because, with Hezbollah shelling the north of Israel every day for over a year and poised to invade causing 100k+ people to evacuate, Israel was unwilling to make itself vulnerable by depleting its armory. It seems counterintuitive but giving more precise weapons to the Israelis did in fact save Palestinian lives.

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Anonymous 23w

What, did you think the meme of “they should have sent special forces in or something” was anything other than a meme repeated by idiots? lmao Do you think the Israeli public have an appetite for door to door urban warfare in the most heavily booby trapped environment that would probably kill tens of thousands of IDF troops if not result in them losing the war outright?

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 23w

The most heavily booby trapped environment in the history of warfare***

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Anonymous 23w

What makes you think the IDF going door to door would result in fewer civilian casualties? There’s no good evidence that that’s the case. There’s pretty remarkable evidence of what it would’ve meant for the IDF death toll.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 23w

Ossoff maybe but he’s not the strongest on Palestine

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Anonymous 23w

I mean Ossoff is a lot better of a candidate then Newsom imo he’s not perfect at all but he’s actually good at politics

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Anonymous 23w

Here’s the thing: there is no group homogeneous enough to win any election by giving everybody 100% of what they want. I’m nervous that the left is so splintered right now that we can’t make compromises, and will end up with 0% of what we want instead.

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Anonymous 23w

I’m honestly convinced he’s the 2nd best option other then AOC just cause of his age and way of politics and he’s also semi progressive but I’d want to wait and see his full platform

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 23w

Hi autism nice to meet you

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Anonymous 23w

I didn’t see your comment about the reason for Hezbollah’s bombing being Israel’s campaign in Gaza. This is just factually incorrect, as Hezbollah began attacking on October 8th, 19 days before Israeli forces entered Gaza. Hezbollah’s military campaign is unambiguously not in retaliation for anything, but simply Hezbollah trying to kill Jews as they’ve always done. Beep beep.

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Anonymous 23w

Can Hezbollah time travel? Without that, I’m confused about how their offensive was primarily motivated by something that happened after it started.

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Anonymous 22w

Not really the case either. Hezbollah was always a greater existential threat to Israel than Hamas, and Israel would not have overextended itself and diminished its capacity to wage war on Hezbollah whether they were shelling in the north or not.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 22w

And again, I’m not sure how you can say Hezbollah ramped up attacks in the north in response to Israel’s atrocities in Gaza when these supposed atrocities hadn’t happened yet. We don’t see an increase in attacks in the north in response to any particular thing, it was fairly consistent from 10/8 until Israel completely destroyed Hezbollah’s ability to wage war.

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Anonymous 22w

No, they would’ve had the risk of two fronts whether the attacks occurred or not and would have behaved in the same way. The only thing Hezbollah’s attacks did was displace Israeli civilians in the north and possibly hasten the Israeli offensive in Lebanon that was already being planned for years.

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Anonymous 22w

Yes, and they weren’t depleting their munitions inventory at any time in the recent past either.

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Anonymous 22w

I’m assuming you’re not a veteran, because if you were you’d know how stupid this sounds lmao. Drones have limited range and are best used as support for troops on the ground. Why would you send troops into the most booby trapped theater in the history of warfare to go door to door when you could tell civilians to evacuate from an area, bomb your objective, and move on to the next one?

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Anonymous 22w

The Iron Dome is there to protect Arabs, bro. If you want to see a genocide, watch what happens if it’s not there anymore.

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Anonymous 22w

#10 is a pretty perfect example of one of these TikTok dipshits who have no desire for their leaders to actually be effective in geopolitics as long as they say the things that make them feel good.

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Anonymous 22w

You’re ticking all the boxes, I’m sure if you try real hard you can think of a way to blame Israel for World War 2 as well. You don’t really care about Palestinian lives as much as you want to be seen to care. Your policy proposals will result in more suffering for everyone in the region and probably ethnic cleansing of the West Bank and Gaza.

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