• Cruxifux@feddit.nl
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    8 months ago

    You can’t just pay lip service and then continue to fund the ones doing the genocide and expect me to give you points for that. You can try and convince me otherwise, but at the end of the day I am not voting for anybody that supports a genocide. I can’t, and I fucking won’t. If Biden doesn’t want the guy who’s calling for him to go to literal prison to gain power all he has to do is not facilitate a genocide and if he cannot bring himself to do this simple thing then I can’t bring myself to vote for him.

    This is all hypothetical for me because I’m Canadian, but this is how leftists in America see the issue. And y’all keep parroting the same lesser of two evils nonsense you always peddle that never works. Why is it that it’s so much easier for you guys to tell leftists they need to vote for genocide than it is to tell democrats that they need to tell their leaders not to facilitate a genocide? It boggles my mind and makes absolutely zero sense to me.

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      8 months ago

      People focus obsessively on the presidency for zero reason. Many don’t even vote in non presidential elections. Effectively squandering their vote.

      The presidency is a symptom of the larger party. We’ll never change the presidency until we change the underlying party. Because let’s be clear. The House and Senate could be pushing back against the president for what he’s doing if they wanted to. They don’t. And that’s the larger problem.

      We can have a much bigger impact on House and Senate elections than we will ever have on the presidency or the presidency will ever have on us. I wouldn’t give a flying fuck who was president as long as the house senate Etc was in order. They’d keep him in line.

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      8 months ago

      If you’re not actively fighting against right-wing nationalism, then you’re complicit. Your inaction will give aid and comfort to the people that seek to do harm here. Or, in your case, in Canada. I saw how Trump infected your own right wing, and how the cancer has spread north of our border. Unless you’re okay with that consuming your country too, you better do everything in your power to fight against it, even when it means that you’re supporting some shit that might not like. Because voting is triage.

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        7 months ago

        One could say if you’re not actively fighting against genocide then you’re complicit.

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          7 months ago

          I think that everyone here wants the genocide to end. But you, as a voter, do not have any choices that will immediately stop the genocide. Your choices are either a person that’s calling for a cease-fire, or a person that’s telling Israel to pick it’s pace up. Sitting it out means that the guy calling for more and faster genocide is much more likely to win, which means you’ve effectively voted for more effective genocide.

          You want real, lasting change? Start local, with city elections, and then moving them to state office, and up to national office.

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        8 months ago

        lol what you’re saying is insanity. If I don’t want to support right wing movements, I should support voting for a Democratic Party that is continuing to push things to the right?

        What utter nonsense.

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          Let’s say you’re in Topeka, Kansas. You want to go east, to New York City. You’ve got one bus ticket to anywhere, and no other cash for a motel or plane ticket. There are only two buses, and you have to choose one of them. There are no other options; you can’t sleep in the station and hope that there’s another bus eventually, and walking to New York isn’t very reasonable. One of buses goes west, to Los Angeles. The other one is going north, to Minneapolis. Which bus are you getting on?

          That’s what your vote is.

          If you want to vote Republican, you’re going to be even farther from where you want to be, and it’s going to be harder to get to your destination. If you vote Democrat, you’re at least not moving the needle by much, which is the least-bad option that you have. Yes, there will be harm if Biden is elected. There will be far more harm if Trump is.

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            7 months ago

            Did they do this description on some popular liberal podcast recently or on some democrats meme page or something? Because you’re all parroting the exact same bullshit analogy to me every time.

            It’s the same thing that happened with Trump VS Hilary. The shaming leftists into supporting the democrats thing doesn’t work and will lose you an election. Time to try something different.

            Or don’t learn from your mistakes, I don’t give a fuck. Just stay out of the way of leftists when it’s time for actual change and they’re the ones actually fighting for it in your country, as usual.

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        If you’re not actively fighting against right-wing nationalism, then you’re complicit

        Biden is complicit.

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          “I know you are but what am I”

          You having an off day? This is not up to your regular level of trolling.