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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, November 6, 2023

Spite Voting

 Great thread here on the self-defeating calls from Muslim leaders to either boycott voting for Biden or even voting for Republicans. I had a similar discussion with my eldest son, who's so pissed about even the existence of Israel (based on bullshit, online information) that he says he doesn't want to vote for Biden. It's a long time to election day, and I doubt that this will hold as a position for a full year, but if you care about the plight of Palestinians, then you cannot vote for Republicans/Trump, and if you don't vote, you are effectively voting for Trump.

Does it suck that your choices are one guy who's a supported of Israel who wants to see a two state solution and one guy who wants to ban Muslims from traveling to this country and nuke Gaza? Yeah, it does. But that is the choice.

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