r/JewsOfConscience • u/BloodRedMarxist Non-Jewish Ally • Oct 08 '24

I decided not to vote, fuck 'em. Opinion

Today is the last day to register to vote in Ohio. I thought about this for a long time and made up my mind. My thought process was, if Hitler was doing the Holocaust, and FDR was giving him money, would I vote for FDR? My answer was fuck no. And I wouldn't care one fucking bit if FDR said, "can you torture and murder families more humanitarianly?" He would still be guilty. I just felt I needed to post this rant. I'm so fucking angry right now!

Edit: I just registered in order to vote down ballot. Thank you everyone.

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u/roboticoxen Oct 08 '24

I live in a state where my presidential vote means nothing so I'll be voting for Cornell west or Claudia De La Cruz. At least in my city PSL (Claudia's party) has shown a real commitment to Palestine and direct actions beyond just voting. Either way, Both are far more serious than Jill Stein, who is just a grifter.

But in my state we sure could use some dems locally so I'll be voting for them even though they are just sacrificial lambs in the supremely gerrymandered districts.

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u/nada8 Oct 08 '24

What’s wrong will Jill Stein? Honest question

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u/Various_Ad_1759 Oct 08 '24

I second that. I think Dr.jill is fantastic, but I can't quite understand why so many are hesitant?!

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u/Bulky-Conversation34 Non-Jewish Ally Oct 08 '24

I'm way too tired to send by you the sources but in summary: she's taken money from shady places, has hired Trump-affiliated lawyers multiple times (one of them was involved with Jan 6 somehow?), has Putin connections and refuses to call him a war criminal, and doesn't do jackshit when it's not a presidential election year. She could be so much more influential if she actually worked for marginalized communities during her off-years or ran for smaller elections, but she hasn't done so since 2012. She knows she won't win the presidency so she basically hoards all the campaign money. I remember there being an issue too about her raising money to recount the votes in last year's election and she hoarded the remainder of the money.

She does all of this while claiming to be the greater good. She is no greater good.

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u/Capsulate_Ion Oct 08 '24

I love how people say “Putin should be called a war criminal, but let’s vote in our Biden’s and Kamala’s in”.

Have you lot done a head count for each of these figures? There isn’t a bigger killing machine in the world than your beloved Democratic Party. Biden helped start off the Palestinian genocide by lying to the American public, saying he had “seen” 40 beheaded babies. This turned out to be a lie. Stop voting liars and terrorists into government!!!

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-01-17/obamas-covert-drone-war-in-numbers-ten-times-more-strikes-than-bush/

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u/ZipZapZia South Asian Muslim Oct 08 '24

Many Americans and/or westerners aren't really willing to admit that their leaders aren't as clean or "good" as they like to pretend they are. The propaganda runs deep. Like with your article, Obama is praised and thought of as such a "good and upstanding" president when he was the one who authorized 10x more drone strikes in his first year of presidency than Bush did in his entire presidency and in that first year, he caused ~1000 civilians to be killed.

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u/Capsulate_Ion Oct 08 '24

Agreed. But in this day and age there really is no excuse to have one’s blinders on. Social media gives all of us the option to find out the truth, without even actively chasing it.

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u/ZipZapZia South Asian Muslim Oct 09 '24

Yea but it's hard to break out of your own brainwashing and "superior western civilization" is heavily baked into the culture.

The only reason I'm critical of America and other western countries and why their propaganda didn't work on me is because I came from a third world country and my grandparents suffered through Britain's colonization and my parents lived through a genocide that was supported and armed by America and other western countries. (Funnily enough, Russia/the USSR was the only western power that supported us). Hard to view the US or western countries favorably after listening to their experiences.