When genocide, apartheid, discrimination and rampant violent crime has become the norm, Palestinian citizens of Israel are casting their ballots seeing their existence on the line
I think you’re misinterpreting this quote, because it’s no different from current Israeli government stance. He’s not against settlers. He’s against the specific settlers that attack officials and police. That’s it.
Since I answered your question, can you tell me why you spend so much time saying voting is pointless and people on the left should never vote?
Give me one example where I said this.
Unfortunately we’re near American voting time, so half the posts on my main page are pure delusions about democracy.
I guess calling for public executions of certain fascists is helping them. Alright, I’ll be sure to send them love letters in the future instead.
Where does it say “voting is pointless and people on the left should never vote”?
At best, you can interpret it as voting being pointless specifically in the US, which honestly sounds about right to me, but that’s not what was said.
The message was not even about voting itself, but about people’s expectations built on illogical foundations.
Expecting voting to produce meaningful change in the US, because it did so in Serbia, is like expecting a movie to do well by using the same composer’s music as another movie that did well. Except one is a psychological horror and the other is a romantic comedy.
But if you’re expecting it to fix anything, because it did in completely different countries, with vastly different histories and corcumstances… you’re in for some serious disappointment.
Oddly enough, it is reading comprehension that’s the issue, I just don’t know if you’re American or not…
can you tell me why you spend so much time saying voting is pointless and people on the left should never vote?
You said voting is pointless and people who think it will work will be disappointed, meaning it won’t work:
I mean, sure, go vote. Can’t hurt, probably.
But if you’re expecting it to fix anything, because it did in completely different countries, with vastly different histories and corcumstances… you’re in for some serious disappointment.
If that’s not what you meant. Then what do you think your comment means?
But you’re already just resorting to insults, in all honesty I’m probably going to just block you instead of replying if this doesn’t turn around soon
Again, where did you see me saying voting is pointless?
people who think it will work will be disappointed, meaning it won’t work
Yes, this part is accurate, mostly. I did say they will be disappointed, but what makes you say it equates with the action of voting being pointless?
What I said is they’ll be disappointed if they ‘expect it to fix anything because it did in completely different countries, with vastly different histories and circumstances’ [specifically in the context of US midterms, which are generally less impactful].
Not that they’ll be disappointed if they expect it to have a point, in which case your interpretation would obviously be correct.
Of course, the point I made is pretty general and vague. To ‘fix anything’ doesn’t mean anything particular, unless you take it literally, word for word. Which is silly, because any election is nearly guaranteed to result in fixing literally anything, such as a pothole.
Also note the focus on comparing vastly different countries, which was the entire point, not voting itself.
I can see why you’d jump to the conclusion, which is why I explained it to you. I don’t particularly disagree with your version. Not strongly enough to argue against it, anyway. The problem is it was never stated, which makes any claims that it was, false.
I think you’re misinterpreting this quote, because it’s no different from current Israeli government stance. He’s not against settlers. He’s against the specific settlers that attack officials and police. That’s it.
Give me one example where I said this.
Unfortunately we’re near American voting time, so half the posts on my main page are pure delusions about democracy.
I guess calling for public executions of certain fascists is helping them. Alright, I’ll be sure to send them love letters in the future instead.
https://lemmy.world/post/53673725/26561763
Where does it say “voting is pointless and people on the left should never vote”?
At best, you can interpret it as voting being pointless specifically in the US, which honestly sounds about right to me, but that’s not what was said.
The message was not even about voting itself, but about people’s expectations built on illogical foundations.
Expecting voting to produce meaningful change in the US, because it did so in Serbia, is like expecting a movie to do well by using the same composer’s music as another movie that did well. Except one is a psychological horror and the other is a romantic comedy.
You claim that I said one thing, then you quote another. Is this the average American reading comprehension?
Oddly enough, it is reading comprehension that’s the issue, I just don’t know if you’re American or not…
You said voting is pointless and people who think it will work will be disappointed, meaning it won’t work:
If that’s not what you meant. Then what do you think your comment means?
But you’re already just resorting to insults, in all honesty I’m probably going to just block you instead of replying if this doesn’t turn around soon
Again, where did you see me saying voting is pointless?
Yes, this part is accurate, mostly. I did say they will be disappointed, but what makes you say it equates with the action of voting being pointless?
What I said is they’ll be disappointed if they ‘expect it to fix anything because it did in completely different countries, with vastly different histories and circumstances’ [specifically in the context of US midterms, which are generally less impactful].
Not that they’ll be disappointed if they expect it to have a point, in which case your interpretation would obviously be correct.
Of course, the point I made is pretty general and vague. To ‘fix anything’ doesn’t mean anything particular, unless you take it literally, word for word. Which is silly, because any election is nearly guaranteed to result in fixing literally anything, such as a pothole.
Also note the focus on comparing vastly different countries, which was the entire point, not voting itself.
I can see why you’d jump to the conclusion, which is why I explained it to you. I don’t particularly disagree with your version. Not strongly enough to argue against it, anyway. The problem is it was never stated, which makes any claims that it was, false.