Trump’s legal team also tried to throw cold water on the idea in a filing earlier this week, writing that the “events of January 6 were not an ‘insurrection’ as they did not involve an organized attempt to overthrow or resist the U.S. government.”
Trump disagrees, apparently.
“They kept saying about what I said right after the insurrection,” he said outside Mar-a-Lago after arguments concluded in Washington, D.C. “I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi.
Sorry, dude, but I don’t feel the need to prove I’m not a far-right provocateur simply because I acknowledge that Joe Biden and his administration are knowingly abetting an active genocide. I cannot in good conscience vote for him or anyone who supports Israel’s aggression. If I thought Trump would actually try to stop it, I’d vote for him, but I know he won’t, so no, I don’t prefer Trump.
I’m normally not a single-issue voter, but there is an immediate risk of an entire culture being wiped out, and while I’m too poor to send any aid myself, if there’s even the tiniest chance that enough people are as done with the left/right, red/blue bullshit as I am to vote for someone who’ll actually try to help, I have to take that chance, infinitesimal though it may be.
I’d rather live on the false hope of a better world than the false hope of a not-even-worse one. We’re all fucking fucked no matter what we do, so why not hope for the best and act accordingly? Maybe it’ll catch on.
This is not the choice you have, that’s my point.
Your choices are false hope of a better world, or the reality of a not-even-worse one.
One of the two will win, and one of the two is certainly worse.
I don’t really see much of a difference between the parties. You either get blatant evil in Republicans or concealed evil in Democrats. Either way, things will only get worse as long as we’re stuck in this two-party loop.
I refuse to directly contribute to either of them, so my choices are to not vote or to vote third party. It’s not ideal, but my conscience remains clear.
I suppose in the trolley problem, I choose secret answer C - throw my wrench on the tracks and hope the trolley derails without causing too much collateral damage.
There are 100 people on the trolley and you’ve just put all of them at risk.
Plus if you don’t see much difference between those two, I can’t imagine the level of privilege you live with. I certainly doubt you’re trans for instance, or in a situation where you may need an abortion, if you’re saying that.
You know the real privilege we all live with? Peace. Not being the targets of mass-murder campaigns.
So yes, I’d rather things get worse for a small part of our population for a short while if it means we can stop our government from actively funding a literal genocide.
And not that it’s any of your business, but I am trans (enby) and my partner and I fairly recently (post-2020) narrowly avoided needing an abortion.
How exactly does this happen if Trump wins?
Same way if Biden wins: it doesn’t.
Though at this point, it’s looking like it’ll already be too late by inauguration time.
So given the choices:
Things get worse for a small part of our population for a short while, and the government continues to actively fund genocide
That small part of the population is unaffected and doesn’t suffer, and the government continues to actively fund genocide
You’re picking option 1 over 2?
I’m picking neither.
What I was saying earlier was that if I believed Trump actually would do something to stop Israel, I’d vote for him despite the harm he’d otherwise cause, but he won’t, so I won’t.
Political nihilism doesn’t grant you a clear conscience.
Maybe not for you. But it’s the best option I can see. And with the electoral college making the real decision, individual votes don’t really matter, especially in my state.
If you want to throw your vote away, that’s fine. If that helps you sleep at night, fair enough. But going around telling people not to vote for Biden is essentially the same thing as telling people to vote for trump. I understand you wish that weren’t the case, you wish a 3rd party was a viable option, but that simply is not realistic for this upcoming election.
There are a lot of us out here who fear trump more than we dislike Biden… and if you think they are the same then you can’t see the forest through the trees.
“Hey, you should maybe vote for someone who isn’t actively financially supporting the most well-documented genocide in human history.”
“Hey, this guy wants us to vote for Trump!”
I mean, yeah, he’s technically less culpable than Biden, but that’s just because he’s not currently in the White House. We all know he would be just as bad as Biden in that particular regard.
If telling you to vote with your conscience rather than your fear is the same as telling you to vote for Trump, maybe you’re the real Trump supporter.
That’s a clever way to continue to dodge the questions.
Do you agree that it will be one or the other?
Do you agree that one is worse than the other?
Do you agree that telling people to not vote for one is the same as shilling for the other?
These are easy questions and you are dodging them.
Hey, don’t blame me if you can’t understand subtext. I answered all your less-than-inane questions already, just not directly. But fine, here you go:
Sadly, most likely, yes.
If I wanted a candidate who’s a zero, then they’re 10 and -10. Either way, things will get worse for everyone, just in a different order.
No, and the fact that so many people think that is a big part of the problem.