• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    17 hours ago

    What a vegan wants isn’t just to not eat either pork or beef, but for neither animal to be killed. You can kill them anyway, but that doesn’t mean I have to eat. Same way, you can elect whichever of the awful candidates you want, but I don’t have to support them.

    • davidagain@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      12 hours ago

      Still doesn’t compare.

      If 10% of citizens who care about animals consistently don’t eat pork or beef, the food industry reduces production and fewer pigs and cows get slaughtered for food.

      If 10% of citizens who care about Palestinians don’t vote, Trump wins and it’s in Netanyahu’s interest to prolong, advance and widen his genocidal flattening of Gaza, extend it to the whole of the West Bank, wipe out as much of Lebanon as he can and take the war to Iran. That and all the turning the military on left wing citizens, mass deportations, leaving women to lose their fertility or die for lack of healthcare nationality, put trans people in jail after calling them pedophiles and let their pedophile friends off scot free. Meanwhile the Democrats see that left wingers don’t vote and the only votes they can chase are “centrists” and adopt more right wing policies because nothing moves the Overton window right more than a right wing government and there’s no loopy logic that’ll get you out of that reality.

      If those 10% vote for Kamala Harris she continues to call publicly and privately for a ceasefire, and if the Democrats win both the House and the Senate they have the chance to actually change stuff and shit like the republicans’ new law removing the president’s power to delay and shipments gets washed away and there’s a chance, albeit small, that Harris is in power long enough and securely enough to do as you advocate and pressurise Netanyahu to stop, but there’s zero chance of that if she loses.

      There’s no third option. It’s either Trump winning and everything getting worse, especially in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, the Middle East generally and the USA in particular, or Kamala winning and things getting marginally better.

      Vegans make a positive difference by refusing both.

      People like you make things much, much worse by refusing both.

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        3
        ·
        5 hours ago

        have the chance to actually change stuff

        We’ve been over this, in the other thread where you can’t address my point. Biden and Harris have no interest in stopping what’s happening in Gaza, they fully support unconditional arms shipments to Israel. This is where you call me a secret Trump supporter because there’s nothing you can say to that.