• don@lemm.ee
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    7 days ago

    If you didn’t vote Harris, you voted for this.

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        6 days ago

        “B-b-but, muh Marxist dialectic materialism requires that I vote ideologically and totally disregard all dissident opinions”

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      There have been no new Supreme Court nominees since the election, so even if Harris had won, it would not have changed this.

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      Actually no. Refusing to vote for a genocidal candidate, regardless of which side of the aisle or gender they are, is always a good choice. We are not free until we are all free. I demand my politicians not just be the lesser of two evils. I hope you can too. Cuz the drive to vote for a democratic candidate cuz they are not as evil is what got us here in the first place.

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        how’s that working out for you?

        sometimes being an adult means doing distasteful things… both candidates supported genocide… 1 of the candidates also wasn’t racist, economically literate, determined to exterminate the poor, and destroy what little democracy you had

        get the fuck over it… you have 2 bad choices and your lack of choice contributed to this

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          He had one bad choice and one meh choice. There was plenty of progressive legislation in Harris’ platform. These people didn’t get 100% of what they wanted and sat home like entitled children.

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      No, I didn’t vote for either. It was pretty easy to vote against Harris, while also voting against this. Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.

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            If there is a next time, I will absolutely say to vote lesser evil again. Without a workable alternative, that is the option. I still see no workable alternative. Longshot third parties with ~1% polling are not a workable alternative. Vague revolution composed of ~1% of the population is not a workable alternative. When you have a plan, with reasonable chances of success, we can talk.

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        I would accept that in 2016. This time around you dipshits knew what the result of your apathy would be and did it anyway.

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        Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.

        All of this I agree with. Unfortunately it won’t happen until all the neolibs are run out of the party.

        But trying to pretend like you didn’t directly elect a dictator by “abstaining” is not only absurd, but ethically reprehensible. Much of life is about choosing between lesser evils and lesser pains. Letting the worst options win because a perfect one doesn’t (and cannot) exist makes you a deliberate, willing accomplice.