• doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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    2 days ago

    I’m very aware of the history.

    Trump won by a slim margin too, and is currently seizing control. If the US doesn’t have an election in the next 15 years, do the American people have zero responsibility for what its future government might do?

    • Signtist@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Zero responsibility, no; many did vote for him , but significantly more didn’t. If you want to hunt down the people who voted for him, sure, but I voted against him in every election knowing something like this would happen, and I’m not responsible for it. The same can be said of a significant amount of Americans. To lump us all together would be like bombing a hospital full of innocent victims to get at some members of Hamas.

    • Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      as jaderick already pointed out, around 50% of gazans are 18 or younger. if the usa was involved in a conflict that killed basically everyone who originally voted for fascists over those 15 years, you would have a point.

      or are you actually trying to make people responsible for a vote that they didnt partake in due to their lack of… existence?

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      2 days ago

      My disparaging response comes from arguing with dipshits on Reddit about Israel who will only accept Likud party propaganda as the only credible source.