• @[email protected]
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      456 months ago

      You have two options:

      • Ok with genocide. Otherwise relatively progressive. Has passed major important legislation.
      • Ok with genocide. Wants to be a dictator. Appointed half of the Supreme Court majority that took away women’s right to abortion. Will probably strip more rights if elected. Cut taxes on the wealthy and will probably do it again.

      You can throw away your vote, but come inauguration, you will have a president who is ok with genocide.

      • @[email protected]
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        166 months ago

        But I will not have voted for one of them. But you will have and the blood will be on your hands.

          • @[email protected]
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            216 months ago

            I think some of these people have to be trolls. We’re basically in the trolley problem where the trolley is headed for 100,000 people, and if you pull the lever it will only kill 1. You can’t abstain from pulling the lever and act like you’re completely innocent of the deaths of the masses.

          • Zengen
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            76 months ago

            If you truly oppose genocide. You should be plotting a coup against the US executive branch.

            • @[email protected]
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              56 months ago

              If your morality prioritizes staunch adherence to standards over harm reduction, you have a stupid sense of morality.

              It’s the kind of morality where someone would rather let a child die than push them out of the way of a speeding car, simply because pushing them would harm them.

              Your morality should lead you to making decisions that result in the least harm. Look at it this way: if all of the people who voted third party instead of Hillary because Hillary wasn’t [insert moral standard here] enough had sucked it up and voted for Hillary, access to abortion would still be legal nationwide. (This assumes enough people to get her elected voted third party over moral objections.)

              Trump is the worst president in my life time, by a huge margin, and he’s even more in favor of genocide than Biden, demonstrably. So if your sense of morality causes you to help put him in charge of our country again, in my mind, you’re a fucking moron.

              • @[email protected]
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                26 months ago

                Rebellion? I don’t like hearing such a word from you," Ivan said with feeling. “One cannot live by rebellion, and I want to live. Tell me straight out, I call on you–answer me: imagine that you yourself are building the edifice of human destiny with the object of making people happy in the finale, of giving them peace and rest at last, but for that you must inevitably and unavoidably torture just one tiny creature, that same child who was beating her chest with her little fist, and raise your edifice on the foundation of her unrequited tears–would you agree to be the architect on such conditions? Tell me the truth.”
                “No, I would not agree,” Alyosha said softly.
                “And can you admit the idea that the people for whom you are building would agree to accept their happiness on the unjustified blood of a tortured child, and having accepted it, to remain forever happy?”
                "No, I cannot admit it.

                Fyodor Dostoyevsky — The Brothers Karamazov

                • @[email protected]
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                  46 months ago

                  Ok cool. Your choice is between genocide, and genocide but worse. You can proclaim how righteous and moral you are that all the pain everyone around you is feeling is not your fault, because you merely threw your vote away, but that won’t change the outcome, and it won’t make you anything but a moron.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    26 months ago

                    It’s my fault Biden won’t declare his intentions to stop the genocide. I’m to blame everybody. My vote has doomed us all. The horror.

                • OBJECTION!
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                  “And can you admit the idea that the people for whom you are building would agree to accept their happiness on the unjustified blood of a tortured child, and having accepted it, to remain forever happy?”

                  “No, I cannot admit it.”

                  Dostoevsky never met American liberals lol.

                • @[email protected]
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                  46 months ago

                  I’m not talking about drug harm reduction. I’m talking about the reduction of harm. Put another way, aiming to reduce the amount of harm your actions lead to.

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                    16 months ago

                    Put another way, aiming to reduce the amount of harm your actions lead to.

                    well the good news is you can vote for anyone you actually want to take office, since only votes for bad people cause them to be elected.

        • @[email protected]
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          166 months ago

          But then if Trump wins because you didn’t vote for either, then you’re ok with Genocide+ rather than Genocide light. Meaning you have to vote for the lesser of the two evils if no matter what you do the majority are voting for the only two who are likely to win.

          You’re either incredibly stupid, a troll, or are being obstinate on purpose.

          • krzschlss
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            76 months ago

            Genocide light? Seriously?!? If the other guy is stupid, you are stupid+

            There is no democracy if you are supporting genocide. There is no election worth voting on if the outcome is same fucking fascist, just with different colored flags. And don’t give me the lie how you’re gonna do something about a ‘genocide light’ if your guy is elected. Fuck off

            This whole country needs to stop sucking Kissinger’s dick and change this bloodthirsty, greedy fascist system.

              • krzschlss
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                36 months ago

                Ask the people in Gaza what they think about “Roe got overturned”.

                After all said and nothing done, we are paying for those bullets that murder their children by accepting and even promoting a system that gives us braindead mouthpieces for weapon manufacturers to vote for.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    36 months ago

                    Vote for whomever you want, or not vote. Make your own decision, stop letting others make the decision for you.

                  • krzschlss
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                    26 months ago

                    November is quite cold where I’m at, we like to go hiking or skiing. Or staying in and watching movies. A nice dinner with friends? I hope I gave you at least one good idea what to do in November.

                    But you can go out and vote for a sociopath and genocide denier or for a racist rapist and when those clowns start killing and bombing some other people somewhere on the globe, you can just blame the Chinese or Icelanders for making you vote for a lesser evil…

                    Life’s good either way…

          • @[email protected]
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            26 months ago

            Small problem. A person who is against genocide would not be okay with a genocide under Trump either, so why should they be okay with a genocide under Biden?

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              26 months ago

              Did you even read anything I wrote.

              The outcome of the election is going to be Trump or Biden. NOBODY ELSE IS GOING TO WIN.

              So given that you have to choose the person less likely to escalate the situation, the saner one of the two.

              I’m not saying it’s good I think it’s fucking abhorrent, but there is no choice.

              To be abundantly clear about my stance on Palestine. I am out every weekend protesting in solidarity with Palestine. I am spreading awareness of the issue wherever I can and I am taking direct action against the companies that support the genocide.

              Let me ask you this. What do you think is going to happen if you don’t vote?

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                If a genocide is going to occur regardless of the vote, then the vote doesn’t matter.

                Let me ask you this. What do you think is going to happen if you don’t vote?

                In regards to what? The genocide? Project 2025? Healthcare?

                If people want to vote for Joe Biden to preserve LGBT and minority rights, that’s their choice. If someone wants to not vote for Biden because he is aiding in a genocide, that’s their choice.

                It’s egotistical to think that my priorities are more important than others.

                • @[email protected]
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                  16 months ago

                  Dude people ain’t voting for Biden for any reason. They’re voting against the lunatic that tried to incite an insurrection. The dude that has the mentality of a child.

                  That’s it. Trump is a sociopath and people don’t want him in charge of nuclear weapons.

                  As to the rest of your comment. Yes you can do what you want but alls people are saying is Trump would far worse in every regard and not voting against him is basically saying your cool with that.

                  Does that make sense? I don’t mean that in a condescending way, I’m really wanting to know if you understand my point of view and the consensus of this thread. And the majority of people.

                  If you’re not voting Biden who are you voting for?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    16 months ago

                    If you want to me to say that I’m voting for Biden, I will. The question everyone should be asking themselves is why do they need that validation. Is it only okay to vote for Biden if everyone else does? If I change my mind in the next six months, and decide to vote for Cornel West or Jill Stein, is it not my choice? The people that have decided to not vote for Biden because of the genocide aren’t gonna be persuaded by randos pressuring them on the internet. It’s not their fault he is helping Israel do a genocide.

          • @[email protected]
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            26 months ago

            The argument for voting against left-wing or socialist candidates on the grounds that they can’t win and are therefore helping the right wing into power has, of course, been a time-worn argument in the United States against bucking the two-party system. Engels, in an 1893 letter to an American colleague, pointed out that in the United States, the formation of a workers’ party is hindered by the “Constitution…which makes it appear as though every vote were lost that is cast for a candidate not put up by one of the two governing parties.” isreview

          • @[email protected]
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            26 months ago

            That’s not logical. So, if my choices are pizza or nuggies, and I choose neither. Then I chose nuggies? Make it make sense.

            I may be intermittent fasting to lose weight, or rejecting imperialist capitalism.

              • @[email protected]
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                12 months ago

                This is a make-or-break moment – we must pressure the Democrats to change their position on Gaza before the elections in November. While we should all be doing absolutely everything we can to stop the genocide, the bare minimum right now is demanding that a presidential hopeful, in need of our votes, commits to ending US funds to Israel. It is not that complicated. source

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              A tribe holds a vote to either cross a bridge to side A or stay on side B. Staying on side A means you won’t have much food. Going to side B means you still won’t have much food, but also most of the food is poisonous.

              Part of the tribe (Group C) says “I don’t want to starve, I refuse to vote in a way that accepts malnourishment as a solution!” Group C also opposes eating poisonous food. This partial group votes to try and find a better source of food (option C).

              48% of people vote A. 49% of people vote B. 3% of people vote C.

              Surprise, surprise, Group C had 0 impact on the starving situation AND helped facilitate the eating of poisonous food.

              • @[email protected]
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                16 months ago

                Seems like more from the other Groups should have voted with C, or C shouldn’t have been given the option to find a better source for food.

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                  I agree with you. If we could get the entirety of the democratic party to vote green/left, that would be super helpful. We both know that’s not happening in America because of the broken electoral and political system. If we could suppress option C, we wouldn’t be having this conversation at all, but there would surely be other complaints to be had regarding that matter.

                  In the end, the Group C votes are equivalent to not voting, which translates to having 0 impact on the outcome of vote. This exemplifies complicity with either option A or B.

        • @[email protected]
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          36 months ago

          Cool, I’ll give you a pass on the genocide, but you will still be as responsible as anyone who voted for Trump for all the other terrible things he said he will do that you are doing nothing to prevent.

    • @[email protected]
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      226 months ago

      If you’re not ok with genocide you should vote against Donald “just nuke them” Trump.