• Sybil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    you’re framing the options as though Biden or Trump would be my second or bottom choice. I would not choose them.

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      1 year ago

      I mean, if you don’t think someone like Trump beating someone like Biden is a worse outcome than the alternative, than it truly doesn’t matter what you do with your vote I suppose. I think I’m just as happy with folks who think that way wasting their votes or not voting at all.

      I maintain that throwing away a vote in a contested election like this is consenting to fascism though. You can justify it any way you want, but I’ll see you that way.

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        1 year ago

        I maintain that throwing away a vote in a contested election like this is consenting to fascism though.

        i maintain voting for joe biden is ENDORSING genocide, not merely consenting to it.

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          A vote is not an endorsement. It’s capital. It can be spent to try and affect some outcome. There’s no saving it for later, though.

          You spend it knowing it will change nothing and possibly result in a slightly worse outcome for everyone. That’s selfish and pathetic. As usual, leftists so far up their own assholes they refuse to allow progress to happen because they value their purity tests more highly than saving the world.

          Bet you didn’t vote in the primary either.

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        if you don’t think someone like Trump beating someone like Biden is a worse outcome than the alternative,

        i didn’t say that. i said i wouldn’t choose either of them. and i have an alternative: voting for someone i do want to win.