• switchboard_pete@fedia.io
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    10 hours ago

    anybody on the left withholding their vote at this point fundamentally disbelieves in a system with exactly two discrete options, so this type of post doesn’t persuade anybody

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      8 hours ago

      fundamentally disbelieves in a system with exactly two discrete options

      except the polls are exactly about two discrete options. “not believing” in it is like not believing in gravity. it doesn’t make you philosopher, it makes you dumb moron.

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        Yeah I don’t “believe” our system best serves the common good. But I sure as hell will vote for Kamala because it’s very clear that is my best course of action to serve the common good. Voting for a third party won’t lead to a system where more parties have a voice, it will help Trump get into power, where only a single party has a voice, and any other voice will be silenced

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            Believing in something and believing something exists or is a certain state are two very different things.

            You can believe that this despotic duopoly exists in such a way that there are only two outcomes, without believing such a system will ever function.