#my powi teacher would have sm to criticize about this

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-> tags are not from prev, i found them in the notes

i usually don't add onto posts like this responding to tags, but like, how do you miss the point that badly

the point of this isn’t even parasocial relationships, it's people going "ohh new candidate who didn't badly mess up yet so i can definitely 100% support her!" that's not parasocial, that's naive, it's being politically uneducated. they didn't see their saviour or best friend in harris, they saw a viable option to support based in 0 information. now there's information that she's just as awful, end of story. sure, some definitely were on the parasocial level, but that's a smaller number, and not the focus of the post. the post disproves the rhetoric that harris is a better candidate than biden

also i don't know how you didn't figure this out, but you do vote that politician if you vote for the democrats. if harris is the head of the party and gets made presidential candidate then guess what, it means she represents the partys current values.

said values align very well with what harris put out here. said values recently have been presented in supporting genocides and not listening to their voters moreso than before (biden resigning is not the dems listening to their voters, it's him having become just a literal embarassment for the party and a 100% sure election loss). if the possible presidential candidate of the party behaves like this, calls peaceful protests by jews unpatriotic and antisemitic, then she represents her party. if they after this statement make her the candudate, then they alogn themselves with these views.

also nice populist rhetoric you got going there! "vote harris bc trump is worse!" first of all, you send your beautiful lovely blue party a big signal with this: they can put out whatever candidate they like, disregard their voters opinions and wishes, and support as much evil as they like. as long as they're slightly lesser evil than the republicans, they'll get elected. that's a surefire way to make your party listen to what you want them to do, great way to make them represent your values.

if harris gets elected, that won't just stop trump. what, you think project 2025 will just go up in the air and disappear? no, they'll simply put a 9 instead of a 5 and the plan is back on. trump will be the candidate again, or perhaps someone just like him.

don't get me wrong, i get that it's scary. he's planning on becomkng a dictator, he's rndangering queer youth, people of colour, women's rights. i get it, it's scary. but repeating populist mantras, supporting a party that does evil too is not a long tearm solution. it's not even a short term solution. all you end up doing is making people outside of the us get massacred so that you can possibly avoid that fate.

i'll be real, the democrats need to change their structure. they need to listen to their voters, put out candidates that are actually up for debate to be elected. and chances are high that they will lose this election (and that's completely their fault), chances are they'll refuse to learn from it. however if they win this election, it'll just cause an even bigger disaster for the next election. it will not save anyone outside of the usa, it's not a viable solution for the usa.

bpth candidates are horrid, but neither are electable. and be aware, if you do decide to elect one of the two anyways, i can't stop you even if i wanted to, the blood of the people from congo, palestine, sudan, etc. is on your hands too. because you decided your life matters more than theirs. and while wanting personal safety is a human instinct, you will still have indirectly supported this gemocide with that

Harris is now condemning the 'unpatriotic" protests against Netanyahu