Democratic candidates won all 30 of Northern Virginia’s seats in the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday as the party was set to significantly expand its 51-49 majority in the state’s lower chamber.
As of 11 p.m., Democrats had picked up 13 seats statewide, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. With only one race undecided, the Democrats will hold at least 64 of the 100 seats, the most they have held in nearly 40 years.
And you’ll never get these things by throwing Palestinians under the bus; that’s how solidarity works. Remember Abandon Harris? I mean, hello, Obama and Biden both deported millions of people throughout their terms, and Democrats are certainly not going to give you healthcare or do shit about climate change. If they don’t care about brown kids on the other side of the world, they don’t care about you. The people who do care about you tend to also care about brown kids on the other side of the world, so it’s either take on injustice at home and abroad or surrender to injustice both at home and abroad.
Do you ever listen to the flight safety briefings on planes? Mask yourself before anyone else during a crash. You have to be alive and conscious to help others.
Myself, family, friends, and neighbors in that order need to be protected and safe before I can put my full attention on other groups. That doesn’t mean I don’t care, I donate to orgs that can do those things. I will pick a less perfect candidate that will help protect those around me.
Would you vote for someone who calls out the genocide of the Palestinian people but would also destroy social services where you live that you might rely on?
And uh… are those around you protected now, or are they at the mercy of the Gestapo like everyone else in America? See my point now? There’s nothing such as protecting people in order; either everyone is protected or no one is. For example since we’re talking about Palestine, according to post-election polling Gaza playing a major role in costing Harris the election. You’re simply not special enough to be protected before everyone else; either you scratch others’ backs so they scratch yours or both you and others end up with itchy backs in a concentration camp. Genocidal warmongers are not going to protect you.
First, I don’t want someone who calls out the genocide; I want someone who does something about it. Second, did you miss the part where I said injustice everywhere needs to be opposed? If such a person existed, I’d pressure them to change their position (before voting for them).
I’m almost 100% sure, that if Harris had won, my neighbors wouldn’t be rounded up and disappeared. I’m also sure that lgbt rights wouldn’t be eroded Also, pretty certain SNAP would be currently funded I know tariffs wouldn’t be a problem I know the white house would literally be in one piece I know there wouldn’t be a child rapist leading this country The list goes on and on.
In addition to EVERYTHING else, would Gaza still be standing? I’d bet money on a Vegas table that, yes, it would be. Would deaths be zero? Probably not, but full on genocide at the scale we are currently seeing?
Perfect is the enemy of good. It doesn’t mean we can’t fight for perfect, but fighting for perfect is way easier when you’re not being kidnapped or starving in your own country.
Sure, but she didn’t, which is my point. What you’re describing isn’t a model for success. I’m pretty sure I said this in my reply, but to repeat: If you don’t scratch others’ backs, they won’t scratch yours. It’s really that simple. There are plenty of people to whom genocide in Palestine is as or more important than everything you just listed; you can either cooperate with them or do your own thing, and I’m sure you can tell which one the oligarchy wants you to do. Hint: Apes together strong. To again repeat myself, we’ve literally just seen this happen in the general; Harris’s pro-Israel agenda alienated enough people that she lost the election, and anyone doing the same thing as Harris will suffer the same result. What you’re advocating for is trying to fit a round peg into a square hole; you can talk at length about how awesome it’d be if the round peg fit into the hole (let’s ignore for a second that the hole is genocide), but it simply won’t.
The full scale genocide has been going on since day one. It’s progressed more because more time has passed, not because there has been any fundamental change in American policy toward Israel. The implication that Israel’s 2025 rampage is any different from its 2024 rampage is blatant Democrat propaganda. The killing, the starvation, the rape, all of it has been going on since October 8th 2023.
You don’t think the Gaza situation is worse now than prior? I don’t know what to tell you, except go look at a timeline of the absolute leveling of Gaza and come back and tell me it’s the same level of destruction as years past. We can argue all day about protest votes and what they mean, but to tell me that the ramped up destruction in Gaza is democratic propaganda is delusional.
You also keep mentioning October 2023 as when this started, the attacks on Palestinians have been an issue for decades, so did you just not vote in any election because no candidate has chosen to figure out a real solution?
I know nothing I say will change your mind, and I’m not changing mine, but please realize politicians can’t be voted on for one ticket items. There is no such thing as a perfect candidate that ticks every box everyone wants. There is, however, almost always a candidate that will work better than another for your own viewpoints. A nonvote can not change or impact anything.
I’m almost 100% sure, that if Harris had won, my neighbors wouldn’t be rounded up and disappeared. I’m also sure that lgbt rights wouldn’t be eroded Also, pretty certain SNAP would be currently funded I know tariffs wouldn’t be a problem I know the white house would literally be in one piece I know there wouldn’t be a child rapist leading this country The list goes on and on.
In addition to EVERYTHING else, would Gaza still be standing? I’d bet money on a Vegas table that, yes, it would be. Would deaths be zero? Probably not, but full on genocide at the scale we are currently seeing?
Perfect is the enemy of good. It doesn’t mean we can’t fight for perfect, but fighting for perfect is way easier when you’re not being kidnapped or starving in your own country.