Kamala Harris voices her opinion on the DC anti-genocide protests.
Kamala Harris voices her opinion on the DC anti-genocide protests.
"unpatriotic protesters"
Straight up 1970s South African
moment right thereDems had a chance to earn my vote and instead they spit in my face.
Let's face it- there was no one among the pool of Biden replacement candidates that was going to lift a finger to stop the genocide. Some quotes:
Gretchen Whitmer: “We here in Michigan condemn this vile act of terrorism,” she said during an event at a synagogue days after Hamas’s October 7 attack in Israel. “We stand with Israel. And Israel has a right to defend itself.”
In April, Whitmer was asked by CNN whether she supports a permanent ceasefire in Gaza; she skirted the question.
Gavin Newsom: “Despite the horror, what I saw and heard from the people of Israel was a profound sense of resilience. A commitment to community and common purpose, especially in these most difficult of times,” he said in a statement after his trip on October 20. “That’s the Israeli spirit. And it’s also the California spirit.”
Josh Shapiro: In April, he likened pro-Palestinian student protesters to the Ku Klux Klan. The campus protests, however, have been largely peaceful, and student leaders say accusations of anti-Semitism misrepresent their aim: to encourage their universities to divest from Israeli companies linked to the country’s human rights abuses.
“We have to query whether or not we would tolerate this if this were people dressed up in KKK outfits or KKK regalia making comments about people who are African American in our communities,” Shapiro told CNN.
Pete Buttigieg: But months later, he appeared to change his position. Asked whether he would pledge to place conditions on aid to Israel to prevent annexation, he said: “If you’re asking me to commit to withdrawing American support for Israel, the answer is no.”
That KKK quote is fucking incoherent lmao
I had 1% hope, and I still feel stupid for it.
Kamala: [says and does rabid zionist shit]
Chuds in the twitter comments: YOU'RE A LEFTWING LUNATIC!
Me: I hate being sober for this.
Dems know they won't win over Republican voters by sliding to the right. It's just a convenient excuse for what they were naturally inclined to do anyway.
I got a hangover diving into ye olde Kopmala research files for when she was running. I concur - it isn't better....well maybe up front but I did have a dream about a plane taking off by itself too soon and crashing off the runway. Perhaps an apt metaphor to come.
Libs furiously insisting you still have to vote for a candidate that has openly condemned you for being against genocide.
Burning the flag is a constitutionally, supreme court protected right. It's patriotic AF.
Keep talking
please keep talking and show everyone the fascist you are.Killer Kamala will replace Genocide Joe. We will protest her just as much as she has blood on her hands too.
All she had to do is keep her mouth shut on Israel-Palestine and pretend to be progressive to win back most of the uncommitted voters. The reflex to bootlick Israel is too strong
My tiktok feed after the announcement went from ironic celebration to unironic celebration, to liberals furiously berating leftists for being antiK (using every single idpol argument they could think of, very reminiscent of the "bernie bro" discourse), and is finally coming around to leftists kindly and patiently explaining things to the libs and baby leftists. I especially appreciate the leftists in marginalized demographics that speak out because it undermines the attempt to co-opt the discourse and drive a wedge between social identities.
Hopefully it's strong enough to overcome the algorithm suppression. I suspect this statement ensures that it will, this genocide is the one thing that can't be ignored by anyone with internet and a soul.
I hate this country
Even the unbelievably low bar of "don't support genocide" is too big of an ask
when has america ever really been against genocide?
Never really
But for the 5th straight "most progressive candidate ever" people should expect better than this, surely.
She has no political instincts whatsoever.
She could just sit back and disassociate herself from everything Biden has done but she's really going to go ahead and tie herself to supporting genocide before the election.
that record-breaking donation surge after Biden announced was only made possible by her willingness to stay the course
Yep. It was all 10x match money the bribers were holding back from
.2 weeks ago
Donors to hold about $90mln in pledges if Biden remains on ticket -NYT
3 days ago
Kamala Harris breaks donation record and raises $81 million in a single day
She literally cannot do that. That 5 million AIPAC donations weren’t there for her to keep quiet about it.
She's quite expensive. Biden did it for one.
She exists in the context of all in which she lives and what came before her.
Unburdened by what has been
let ME be clear, go fuck yourself cop
It sickens me to see how many "leftists" were just so desperate to finally stop caring about any of this and just go back to worshiping the Democrats.
I prefer to call them 'temporarily embarrassed liberals'
You can’t expect much from NATO-leftists. They’ve been scum since they started calling themselves Trots.
I do want to stop worrying about all this shit and get back to the grill... Only way that happens is if it stops, there's reparations, and communism finally takes hold. There will be no reprieve from hell world.
I was wondering how long the mass delusion that she was a good candidate was going to last.
Not a great sign when you're within the margin of error to trump at the absolute peak of your honeymoon stage.
it reads like a parody
Its like genocide Joe never left!
All the chuds harassing calling bullshit on her support for Israel is wild. This is winning her zero votes. Its just shitting on her own base for donor money.
I wouldn't be so optimistic that the majority or even a tenth of her base will abstain over it. But absolutely no one in that base wanted to hear this.
Burning flags
Doing infinite genocide
Most progressive candidate in American history 
Are they really saying that?
They are over on kamala.world
Dems... this is the 7th week in a row you've shown the Most Progressive Candidate In American History in class
critical support to biden for giving us a potential president who's name is easily convertible into maoist standard english
The bar to win (vs Trump) is insanely low and one simple thing she has to do, and just failed to do, is yank the chain around Israel's neck.
Stop caving to the most racist, frothing at the mouth pieces of shit like Greenblatt.
You could actually counter the antisemitism from the ADL and all the liberal media by explicitly stating that Israel DOES NOT represent the views and will of all Jewish people. You could state that a huge portion of those protestors who were arrested were Jews against Israel doing genocide while hiding behind their Jewish identity and the Holocaust. I guess that requires a sliver of backbone and honesty which any American politician in her position is apparently fully incapable of even pretending to have.
But barring a total and full reversal on this rhetoric after her formal nomination (approximately 0% chance), she's going to lose the swing states like Michigan the same as Biden was losing them for the same reasons.
It's just pathetic how tone deaf and stupid liberals are. Kamala doesn't have the excuse of being 8000 years old insulated in a bubble by her family. She's just a wishy-washy political player who is surrounded at the moment by ideologically driven people giving her bad advice instead of being objective and realizing that the insane antisemitic bullshit, condemning anti-Israeli protesters as antisemites, is literally going to lose the election. Is it issue number one for racist-ass Americans across the board? No, unfortunately. But it is a big enough issue in specific states she MUST win.
From pure electoralism standpoint, this is top tier fuck territory. It's not just my own hatred for Israel either. Libs seem hyper focused on that aspect and it blinds them to the objective reality that Muslims, Arabs, Palestinians, and sympathizers with Palestinians are simply not going to vote for the president in key states. Is this really so hard to comprehend? They're not "coming around" on genocide especially when the new nominee is just continuing forward with the exact say rhetoric. The easiest thing to change, how she speaks about protesters, and she couldn't do it. So pathetic. Sad!
Israel is an important outpost of the American Empire, it will not be discarded. They would rather lose.
American Empire is over
"You know it, I know it, everyone knows it."
Also, I would argue, that bending to all the insane reactionaries like Bibi, Greenblatt, etc. and fully enabling and furthering genocide only guarantees and quickens the demise of Israel. If they actually cared about maintaining the outpost, they're doing exactly the opposite thing to keeping it. Allowing Palestine as a state and forcing Israel to stand down vs Iran and other regional powers would be how you keep it around... longer anyway. They're living in 1991 forever thinking the US can do literally anything it wants and support anything it wants, and actually it MUST support this because showing "weakness" would be worse than defeat. It's not 1991 though and the Zionists are hellbent on replicating the Führer bunker but on the nation state level
Yep, if they discard Isntreal, they might as well close up shop on the whole empire and it's 800+ bases.
Then they shall lose
It's just pathetic how tone deaf and stupid liberals are.
It's difficult to look smart when you're paid to be stupid. They don't need to win to fundraise.
Idk like I said elsewhere something absurd like 2% of voters said that Palestine is a concern for them at all on who they're voting for. I dont have the source but I dont tihnk it bears out the idea that this will matter anywhere but Michigan specifically and there only because of the arab population. I dont think it'll matter in the other swing states. Maybe I'm my own sort of doomer and my doom is that I dont think people by and large consider Palestine something you change your voting patterns over. But I think the young people who made the difference in 2022 who were deflated by Biden were moreso defalted by his age than Palestine, and are now back on board, and care more about abortion and queer rights than Palestine. Especially abortion.
I just dont think this moves the needle.
It switched at least one swing state vote: mine.
I was going to suck it up and vote for her, but her comms team had to put out this shit when they could have just said nothing. Fuck Killer KKKamala
The "uncommitted vote campaign" during the "primary" says otherwise.
Although of course you are ultimately correct, as I acknowledged before, it isn't a concern for most voters. True enough. But when the margin of victory is 40000 votes (or w/e) in 2020 and 100K people vote uncommitted indicating they won't vote unless policy changes... the math maths there unless those people were lying. We won't know that until November.
Every bit as much of a massive piece of shit as Biden
Well, Biden has a Tara Reade up on her so there's that.
glad to know she's carrying on the mantle of trying her best to lose
Other than the Michigan arabs thing which is definitly material, I tbh dont think enough people care about stuff like this for this to even slightly move the needle. Like sentiment against Israel is growing but I polls show its nowhere near the chief concern. And all this brat meme bullshit has the zoomers that were deflated by Biden back in line.
In addition to being fucking awful, this is indistinguishable from AI. It's bland, it's predictable, it's really round peg in round hole writing. It's uninspired, lacks showmanship, and reminds me of everything I've come to despise about management.
But circling back, shout out to "violence of any kind." Illiteracy seems like a worthy trade if I never have to read bullshit like that.
How do we know she didn’t use AI to “assist” her?
another
for the coconut praxis headsLike half of the top posts on lemmy.world are pro-kamala ones lol. kopmala.world
Those 5 million from AIPAC are hard at work.
Vice-
What a dumb move. They saw that Kamala could beat Donald Trump, and they want her to throw. Democrats exist to beat the left, Republicans are the ruling party. She wants to lose.
Genocide Copmala
Kid Killer Kopmala
Kalamity Harris?
Cool, good to know the optimism I've had about Biden dropping out was very misplaced. Guess I'm not voting now.
All they wanted to do is to applaude a convicted fellon leading a government convicted of crimes against humanity. How deploreble are you to be mad about this?
Libs on lemmy.ml be like "how dare you call black woman names and slurs" in a thread where someone just asked how her name is pronounced since it isn't English name. And before anyone even called her KKKopmala.
🔻🔻🔻
Was anyone surprised lets be fr
I'm kinda surprised she bothered saying anything when strategic ambiguity on her support of genocide would probably poll better.
Some people actually are.
There will not be a second referendum on Zionism.
All as goes as planned for Kamala...
I think this was always a given. USA has never had a problem with genocide of course, and I’d be shocked to see a candidate for president that wasn’t a Zionist. My only curiosity is how much polling indicates swing state voters actually care about Palestine, and whether this is a strategic blunder in that sense. My guess is people don’t care enough generally… But it might be enough to tip the scales in Michigan. Which might be enough to tip the scales in the electoral college.
Tbh what did you really expect lmao
Me? There are people even here who relapsed back into brunch for this literal cop but I was not one of them ffs.
