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A pro-Palestinian protest action briefly blocked all traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Wednesday morning.

Starting at about 7:45 a.m. Protesters stopped cars and stretched banners across the roadway denouncing Israel's bombing of Rafah in the Gaza Strip and demanding that the U.S. stop arming Israel.

Northbound and southbound traffic on the bridge was at a standstill as of 8 a.m.

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Even if people will still vote for Biden we need public opinion to swing so drastically that the Dems will at least panic and do something different than unconditionally support israel.

Openly saying that you are going to vote for Genocide Joe while he does the Genocide is absolutely useless.

[–] SquirtleHermit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is definitely some truth in what you are saying. But for me, that has to be weighed against the risks of another Trump presidency. Which from what I've seen, will be worse for the Palestinian people, as well as many others. There are people very close to me whose rights were infringed upon by the shifts in laws enacted during the Trump years, and fighting for their rights isn't useless to me.

I do my best to take direct action to show support for the Palestinian people, and would encourage others to do the same. But I worry that if we genuinely want to affect change to benefit the greatest number of people, we can't just pick our hills to die on, we have to push for solidarity.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What risk? We have seen 2016. Trump will only be marginally worse than Biden. People are still working 20 jobs for little money and have no housing but we sure have 14 Billion for israel lying around.

If you keep confirming to the Democrats that they will never lose by being Republicans Lite, then the Democrats will never change. In fact your direct vote confirms you don't want them to change

Only by making Democrats lose votes (or at least polling numbers) will they actually start to care. Especially when they see those lost votes directly go to third parties

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

These are people that pay sticker prices at the dealership.