Month: 8 Nisan 5784 (April 2024)

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka "They have the right to choose a fundamentalist Islamic/authoritarian government" is great in principle, except Gazans were granted that right, enough of them chose the fundamentalists to allow said fundamentalists to stage a takeover, all of which has culminated in October 7 with the supposedly moderate PA being little better and yet the international community wants to hand everything over to that entity while pinky swearing it'll reform. All of this then becomes literally a problem for Israel and Egypt, just for starters. Proponents of the two-state solution have yet to seriously grapple with any of this, and I don't think the people doing the moving and shaking in that space are going to do this any time soon. And until that happens, and there's some major changes in Palestinian politics, a two-state solution isn't happening.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka If they take over the government, then that means enough people in the US voted for them to take power. So yes, that would mean that enough people in the US either specifically voted for them, or did some other thing necessary for them to take power, like abstaining or writing in or any other electoral thing that would cause them to win.

Just popping up their new Slack AI think. I was able to get it dismissed.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I have to jump over crazy hurtles to vote. I still do it because the alternative is that the Christian fundamentalists *definitely take over if enough people like me decide to just sit it out.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka If you have the opportunity this election, see if you can tag along with someone who needs accessible voting at your local polling place. I promise you that situation is rarely without all kinds of avoidable problems, up to and including poll workers who don't know how to set things up, and that's one of the more benign bits. And the only orgs even sort of dealing with that kind of voter suppression are disability rights orgs. And it's a both-parties problem.

@noharmpun @ViciousBabushka I've worked on plenty of election days, and I'm very well aware that there are people in this country for whom it is literally impossible to vote. But it still comes down to if enough people who can vote decide to do something that lets the fundies take power, then as a collective we set the stage for that. Doesn't mean we're all horrible people, it does mean that now there's a situation that has some very unpleasant facts associated with it that we all now need to deal with.