I never said it excused them, but it does to some degree explain them.

I was talking about the US leveling 95% of the buildings in what is now the DPRK. That put the North at a pretty big disadvantage economically, and hard economic times often lead to despots.

I don’t recall the human rights abuses in North Korea being a direct result of us intervention.

I wouldn’t say that the US had nothing to do with it, though. The Korean Civil War was brutal for the south, but it was even more so for the north.

Madagascar was also on the short list.

Correct, except if 51% of voters in each state choose third party, they would have won.

But I knew, before the election and beyond a reasonable doubt, that that would not happen. That leaves me with the three choices mentioned above: keeping genocide the same, increasing genocide, or abdicating responsibility for choosing between the two.

And to be clear, I’m not very high on the genocide list. I will likely escape to a less horrible country before my number is drawn. It’s my LGBT+, Chicano, and indigenous comrades I’m most worried about, followed by a long list of other traditionally marginalized groups.

The choices were:

• Vote for Trump (Netanyahu’s preference)
• Vote for Harris (still bad)
• Don’t vote (or vote third party, which has an identical effect) (leaves the choice between Trump and Harris to the rest of the voters)

Possible? Absolutely. Pleasant? Hell, no.

All for a stance that amounts to “we should waggle our fingers disapprovingly at Israel while selling them unlimited weapons to do a genocide.”