• poke@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    Not voting is a choice as well. A choice that will make it so that your voice will not have an impact on whether the candidate that kills more will win, or the candidate that kills less. Choosing to abstain is an announcement that you don’t care about those whose lives are being threatened, the opposite of what you seem to think it is.

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      26 days ago

      A great Canadian philosopher once said “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!”

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      26 days ago

      Honestly my ideology on it is the same as my parents and my grandparents, and even my great grandparents ideology.

      I don’t care who you vote for, what you vote for, or your reasoning’s for doing do.

      But if you refuse to vote, regardless of reason, you lose any say in complaining about what happens as a result, as you actively did nothing to help prevent it, meaning you have no right to bitch about the outcome.

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      26 days ago

      Not voting is a choice as well.

      Yes, but I don’t have any other choice, myself.

      Choosing to abstain is an announcement that you don’t care

      No, it’s an announcement that I care so much about innocent people dying that I am morally conflicted about being asked to be part of a political system which condones it.