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[–] Melkath@kbin.social -3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Stop doing that you insufferable pea-brained dolt.

Not voting for Biden doesn't mean I'm voting for Trump.

Idiots like you sit there like your vote is a party popper you MUST use to show if your streamers and confetti are blue or red.

I am disgusted with the options I am presented with. I get no streamers or confetti...

Unless Biden condemns the Israeli genocide of Palestine and champions imposing massive embargoes on Israel while fully ceasing any funding in full.

Then I might believe he (and the DNC) are humbling WAY the fuck up, listening to their constituents, and correcting course is the SMALLEST of ways.

[–] ashok36@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I vote for anyone but Biden, or even a no vote, is a vote for Trump.

If you think Palestine is in bad shape under Biden, try to imagine how much worse it'd be with Trump.

The only way to get Democrat candidates on the left is to crush the right wing so that the Overton window moves.

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 10 months ago

Rewarding parties for doing nothing is good democracy actually 🤓 /s

If America were a functional democracy the Democrats would actually court voters with real solutions to real problems. That's not their goal. Let's not forget that the country was founded as a rich boys club and the founding documents were designed to preserve it as such. That is still true to this day. You can't pull the Democrats left because that's not their fucking job

[–] explodicle@local106.com 11 points 10 months ago

I vote for anyone but Biden, or even a no vote, is a vote for Trump.

First they think of not voting. That's one vote for Trump.

Then they decide to vote for Trump. That's two votes for Trump!

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

By this logic, every dollar you don't donate to Biden is a dollar donated to Trump.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Stop supporting genocide, cracker

[–] wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I ask you, if there is one party that tries you stop you from voting in any way they can, doesn't you not voting play into their hand?

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

Just stop supporting genocide; this isn't hard.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Stop supporting genocide, cracker

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Refusing to vote for Evil, any Evil, is a pretty straightforward moral position to take.

Meanwhile your voting choice requires complex mental gymnastics to justify, which is quite an indication that you're trying to come up with excuses for yourself for doing what you do not feel is the morally right thing to do.