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If the LATimes owner's reason for not endorsing either Harris or Trump as the internal email states, I support it. Too bad he did not endorse Jill Stein who opposes the Israeli war on Gaza

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It would have been so much more impactful if he had actually said that publicly.

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It is shocking that a statement in favour of ending a genocide would prompt journalists and subscribers to quit. I say good riddance.

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He shoud have said so at the outset. Waiting until now is chicken-shit ... pardon the adjective.

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As a veteran with an honorable discharge, I wonder what it now means as we effectively kill 40 children A Day with our funding of Gaza under this administration. Isn't a vote for Harris an endorsement of genocide? And Trump, if we are to believe his support of Netanyahu, likewise. History, I believe will speak on this.

I fretted this entire year, and was finally persuaded by Bernie's 5 minute talk an Gaza. Mine is a conditional vote, based on stopping the war in Gaza. And Ukraine as well. The climate does not care if it is bombs, fossil fuel, or forest fires that create the burning-burning greenhouse cooker. Only a different course will offer us a future.

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I usually agree with Bernie on most everything, but not this genocide in Gaza. You should not have voted for Trump or Harris.

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I cannot argue.... and then I cannot stand mute. Either vote, I agree, is to endorse genocide. A choice between katchit and dog poo in no choice at all. Our political fund raising cycle produced a universal disenfranchiser. None-of-the-above ought to have been the winner. Still, winning and losing is not the way to frame politics in a functioning democracy, but coming together. That is not what the $16 Billion was spent upon. What is choice between arrogance and arrogance?

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If Kamala Harris wins, I hope she – and the Democratic Party – will understand that she damn near lost on account of Gaza. If she loses, ditto.

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At a time of increased militarization of the border and police, genocide, erasure, and weapons shipments to an ICJ criminal state and leadership, and erosion of democratic safeguards like free speech, peaceful assembly and equal representation, it’s good riddance to those board members and subscribers. Don’t vote for anyone who can’t say abolish.

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I agree: I would not endorse either Trump or Harris.

People

Planet

Peace

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Yes the columnists should resign. But they lack courage.

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It may take some time for Americans to realize that the human race, by-and-large, sides with the global south, and does not subscribe to the ubiquitous and unquestioning pro-Zionist narrative that still remains the only story that most Americans have ever heard.

Cognitive dissonance can be a painful thing to process, and especially for a public who have been merchandised a narrative that tells us that we have a God-given right to never feel uncomfortable.

Waking up is hard to do.

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Shame on those who just carry on as if this genocide isn't happening, or pretend that it's somehow not genocide.

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The annihilation of innocent people, terrorizing them and starving them to death with impunity changes everything.

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I wish he would have been honest alot sooner and maybe saved lives.

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I wish I wasn't such a cynic, but I don't believe him. He's hedging his bets for his own gain. I hope I'm wrong, but why wouldn't he have said this earlier and publicly?

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I'm reading the letters posted, and they seem written by two different people who don't even know one another. If he's that much of a chameleon, I'm surely glad he is not my surgeon.

I could care less what he does with that newspaper. There's no investigative reporting in it any way near the caliber of Drop Site News or the Intercept. It's obvious why the self-serving oligarch-owned media products are losing market while independent media is gaining it.

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