r/JewsOfConscience • u/PreparationOk1450 Jewish Anti-Zionist • Jul 22 '24

Discussion Dementia is Disqualifying, but Not Genocide

It's really disturbing to me that dementia is disqualifying for Joe Biden, but him doing a genocide is not. That shows how Palestinians are viewed in America by the political class.

If only Hitler had dementia, maybe we could've gotten rid of him sooner, since the Holocaust wouldn't have been a problem for him with his domestic constituency.

What do others think?

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u/IWantFries21 Non-Jewish Ally Jul 22 '24

It's not. Our system is rigged. We need ranked choice voting (which some states are already putting into place but a few have banned it outright). All the more reason to vote in our local and statewide elections

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u/Specialist-Gur Ashkenazi Jul 22 '24

Question for you—I’ve heard from some political scientists that rank choice would be bad.. that’s how Israel keeps getting bibi and how hitler was elected.

Is there any truth to this?

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u/Saul_al-Rakoun Conservadox & Marxist Jul 23 '24

Oh, and coming back to this a day later -- political scientists and bourgeois economists engage in apologetics, not inquiry. Their facts and figures may be relied on, like "in May 1940 the United States produced such-and-such an amount of pig iron", but their explanation of meaning and alternatives isn't reliable. Treat them kind of like you would if you had the opportunity to go back to 1855 and talk with an economist from Virginia about the production of cotton and tobacco.

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u/Specialist-Gur Ashkenazi Jul 23 '24

Fair enough!!