#uncommitted

[sayruq]

The goal of the #uncommitted campaign was just 10,000 votes to send a message

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

Listen to Michigan, the group organizing for voters to vote "Uncommitted" in the state's Democratic primary, had a goal of 10,000 votes.

With 27% of today's votes counted so far, they've already reached 35,645 votes, 14.4% of the total.

[aspdboy]

ೀㅤㅤUncommitted

A term for those who are not committed to their attraction / sexuality and prefer to break the rules instead.

Ex : an lesbian who dates men, an aromantic who does not want an romantic relationship yet gets in them anyway, a bi person who only dates one gender, etc.

They are still said sexuality, for example the lesbian only feels attraction to non-men, yet chooses to go against it, for whatever reason.

 ྀི◟ ͜ ̣̣̥⠀ self-indulgent, this is probably worded terribly

෫ㅤㅤㅤDo not interact

Basic dni, (disorder) abuse believers, endogenic/non-traumagenic systems, anti-good faith, anti-paraphilias, radqueers, transids, perisex afab tfems and amab tmascs, anti-self diagnosis

[maplemonarchy]

!!!!!!ATTENTION DEMOCRATIC PARTY VOTERS!!!!!

If you live in the following states you can vote for uncommitted on the primary ballots:

SUPER TUESDAY States + Territories:

Alabama

Colorado (as Noncommitted Delegate)

Massachusetts (as No Preference)

Minnesota

Tennessee

American Samoa

MARCH (Non-Super Tuesday)

Washington State - March 12th

Missouri - March 23rd

APRIL

Rhode Island - April 2nd

Wisconsin (as Uninstructed Delegate) - April 2nd

MAY

Kentucky - May 21st

JUNE

New Jersey - June 4th

New Mexico (as Uncommitted delegate) - June 4th

Montana (as No Preference) - June 4th

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Jake Smith

Presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris’ team quickly downplayed claims that she said on Wednesday she’d be open to “discuss” an arms embargo against Israel.

The Uncommitted National Movement, a Palestinian activist group that has been vocally critical of Israel’s war in Gaza, said in a statement Wednesday that it met with Harris during her campaign rally in Detroit on the same day. The activist group said in its statement that it “requested a formal meeting with Vice President Harris to further discuss their demands of an arms embargo and a permanent ceasefire.” (RELATED: Americans Mostly Agree Democracy Is On The Ballot In November, But Disagree On The Threat: POLL)

“The Vice President shared her sympathies and expressed an openness to a meeting with Uncommitted leaders to discuss an arms embargo,” the group said in its statement. The members who had met with Harris “thanked the Vice President for her openness to engaging with the demands of Uncommitted voters.”

US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris walks on stage as she arrives for a campaign rally at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan, August 7, 2024. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

Harris has not since publicly addressed the claims made by the group or whether she’d be open to discussions about an arms embargo against Israel. As of Thursday, she had not held a single interview with reporters since July 21, when she announced her candidacy for president.

Though Harris herself has not spoken about the matter, her national security adviser, Phil Gordon, said in a statement on Thursday that she has been “clear” about the issue, claiming that “she will always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups. She does not support an arms embargo on Israel.”

The Uncommitted National Movement responded to Gordon’s statement on Thursday and maintained that Harris expressed “an openness to meeting about an arms embargo.”

US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris poses with supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan, August 7, 2024. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

[hero-israel]

[readingsquotes]

"But what it really comes down to is that Americans, myself included, are tired of the military industrial complex and the war machine constantly churning and constantly driving. Almost $4 billion a year goes to Israel to provide weapons of war. And our calls are simple. We know that money can be used to foster and develop human life and not end it, whether that’s in America, or in Gaza, or in the West Bank.

So BLOC is part of this call, because at the end of the day, we have to stop the destruction of human life. We believe in the sanctity of human life, we believe that war is wrong. And that’s the intersection of all these issues, that our money as taxpayers are being used to end human life. And we can’t stand for that."

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

[sayruq]

Why this statement matters:

[iwriteaboutfeminism]

With 96% of the votes counted in Minnesota, an AMAZING 19% of voters selected "Uncommitted" in the Democratic Primary, a total of 45,752 votes so far!

[eretzyisrael]

by Corey Walker

Uncommitted leaders will attempt to push Harris, the Democratic nominee, to endorse a US arms embargo on Israel along with a permanent ceasefire between the Jewish state and Hamas. The organization argues that its demands will help end a so-called “genocide” in Hamas-ruled Gaza. 

Top Democrats have spent recent weeks engaging in meetings with leaders of the Uncommitted movement, hoping to mollify angry Arab Americans, a voting bloc which could prove critical in key swing states such as Michigan.

Harris recently held a meeting with Uncommitted leaders ahead of a campaign rally in Michigan. The New York Times reported that Harris indicated she would be “open to” arranging a meeting with pro-Palestinian activists to discuss an arms embargo on Israel. The Harris campaign later denied such reports, insisting that the nominee “does not support an arms embargo on Israel” and “will always ensure Israel is able to defend itself against Iran and Iran-backed terrorist groups.”

Harris also reportedly arranged a secret meeting with Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, the state with the largest Arab population in the US. Hammoud has repeatedly condemned Israel’s military operations in Hamas-ruled Gaza, accusing the Jewish state of committing a “genocide” in Gaza and an “ethnic cleansing” in the West Bank. On Oct. 7, following the slaughter of roughly 1,200 people throughout southern Israel by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists, Hammoud condemned the Jewish state as a “racist apartheid system that criminalizes Palestinian existence.”

“Israel’s decades of illegal military occupation and imprisonment of Gaza make peace impossible and tragic violence inevitable,” Hammoud tweeted on Oct. 7. Israel has trapped millions of Palestinians in Gaza in what is recognized by the international community as the world’s largest open-air prison. Failure to recognize this context is the inability to comprehend what is unfolding overseas.”

Hamas-led terrorists kidnapped some 250 hostages during their Oct. 7 rampage and perpetrated mass atrocities, including rampant sexual violence.

[o-the-mts]

[nokingsonlyfooles]

“It’s my hope, Mr. President, that you listen to us, that you choose democracy over tyranny.” - Abdullah Hammoud, Dearborn Mayor and Voter

YES! I can't fuckin' believe the media accurately reported this as a protest and printed/publicized the words of the voters explaining why they did it. AND NOBODY HAD TO ATTEMPT SUICIDE! This is big and it could get even bigger! But it's a qualified bigness, because...

Walz, a major supporter of Biden’s reelection campaign, said Michigan’s “uncommitted” results were a healthy demonstration of democracy. “I think they feel passionate, as they should, about an issue we all care about,” Walz said, adding that he expected most protest voters would eventually return to Biden’s side in a likely November rematch with former President Donald Trump, who himself has struggled with college-educated voters and suburbanites in his ongoing Republican primary against former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. “I’m much more convinced there’s a chance bringing those folks home is much greater than bringing the ‘Never Trump’ folks back home,” Walz said.

Yeah. I know this song and dance. I've seen it happen in person, at protests, in reatime. They come out to "do voter outreach" and they're all smiles to start. "Yes! Please do continue to act upon your freedom of speech in a way I, an advocate for the status quo, find nonthreatening. Your feelings are valid, ha-ha! I expect nothing to change, and indeed I will act to change nothing, but good for you!" A few folks always believe the message has been received and quiet down, that's why they do it. But wait and see what happens to that smile when a few people start interrupting and yelling, "THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH!"

At least this guy's willing to suggest Biden would pick up more votes by moving left than moving right, although I doubt he actually expects anything radical. A few more forgiven student loans or somewhat cheaper drugs aren't much of a problem, and that's leftist too! So we don't really have to worry about the ongoing genocide.

The thing is, if/when this picks up momentum and the DNC starts to think they might have to change something or lose, it will become something other than a positive demonstration of free speech. It'll be childish tantrum-throwing, pointless, uncivil, attention-whoring, astroturfed, counterproductive foreign interference, and whatever else sounds bad. If any of you out there in internet-land already feel threatened by it, you're probably saying that right now. (Go ahead and comment, you'll boost this with other people who think like you, and I might change some minds.)

And, if you are comfortable with it and want voters to do it instead of threatening to withhold votes from Biden in the general, check your privilege. Not every state offers this. Unless something changes real fast (at least, I THINK it hasn't changed, it's hard to do a search when "uncommitted" brings up SO MANY news articles about Michigan 😁), mine won't. I can't do this. I can't vote in a third party primary either. It'd be all blue or nothing. And neither of those things will get me any press, so I gotta keep talking. Maybe I'll motivate someone who can vote uncommitted! Or scare a politician! I still think I'm doing more good by staying alive, and I'm a bit distant from any property I might meaningfully damage (although I am open to suggestions that won't get me arrested and silenced), so this is the only thing I got that won't injure a human being.

Tumblr, no matter how you actually intend to vote, if you're not up for living in a two-party system where both parties think they can do a little genocide and stay in power, you have ways of making yourself heard. There are options beyond falling in line behind the lesser evil. Don't let anyone tell you there aren't. And when you start hearing "stop!" or "you can't!" that means you have something they want. A cessation of hostilities! Well, now you might be in a position to negotiate terms! Don't give up!

Please, please, please don't give up. There is so much to be done.

[sarahconnorjr]

"If you don't vote for Biden that will be the end of the two party system"

Is the two party system in the room with us right now?

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

I used to refer to the "squad" and their allies as the Democratic Hamas Caucus. Israel supporters cheered when two DHC members were primaried. Celebrations were premature. The Democrats are now the party of Hamas.

I wonder if Andy Levin still tries to pretend he is a Zionist.