• 4grams
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    46 months ago

    This. I cannot morally support any of them, I’m left without a choice but to be berated by the “lesser evil” crowd. I can’t support evil anymore, I have no love for this broken shithole country and would leave in an instant were I not trapped here.

        • @assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world
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          66 months ago

          Then stop bothering the rest of us who are trying to make things better. Your whining from the peanut gallery is annoying. You aren’t going to get any sympathy for your bitching here.

          • 4grams
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            26 months ago

            I mean, I already have, this isn’t the echo chamber you think it is, and it makes me feel better so if my whining is causing you pains, feel free to ignore or block me.

        • @enbyecho@lemmy.world
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          56 months ago

          My assumption is that you are white, middle class and cishet male. Because you can apparently afford to give up.

          • 4grams
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            26 months ago

            my sincere apologies for what I am causing you.

            • @enbyecho@lemmy.world
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              36 months ago

              my sincere apologies for what I am causing you.

              Do you seriously not understand the implications of a Trump presidency for women, queer folk, transgender folk and minorities? The environment? Years of at least some progress on progressive policies? The minimum wage? Social Security? Democracy itself?

              We don’t even have to speculate - they’ve literally told us what they are going to do.

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                this same argument has been made in every election of my life. I agree, and I’m sorry this this stupid country has it out for all minorities but I no longer have faith that scribbling in a little circle every 4 years is the medicine we need.

                Years of at least some progress on progressive policies? The minimum wage? Social Security? Democracy itself?

                update- minimum wage is lower, adjusted for inflation, than it was when I was a kid. I do not believe that I will receive any of the social security I’ve paid in and the age for it has been increased. I do not believe this democracy functions anymore.

                the night turnip was elected was the final nail in the coffin for us. everything since has been death throws of a nation.

                • @enbyecho@lemmy.world
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                  36 months ago

                  this same argument has been made in every election of my life. I agree, and I’m sorry this this stupid country has it out for all minorities but I no longer have faith that scribbling in a little circle every 4 years is the medicine we need.

                  Once again. I’m glad you have the luxury of having this attitude. Because clearly the progress we’ve made doesn’t in any way affect you. Congrats.

                  • 4grams
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                    16 months ago

                    But the examples you gave me are the opposite of progress. Look, I’m glad you still have fight left in you, you’re gonna need it for a long time.

    • Do you want the best possible outcome for gazans? Then vote for Biden. It really is that simple.

      You can simultaneously acknowledge that having Biden in the white house is the best outcome for gazans amongst possible alternatives, and that you find Biden’s position unconsciable.

      If you fail to take action, the plight of gazans will be worse, amongst many other disasters as yet unknown.

      You realise conservatives don’t want you to vote?

      • 4grams
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        26 months ago

        You are telling me the same things I’ve been told my entire life. Do the dead gazans at the hands of American bombs think I should vote for Biden?

        I keep hearing how much worse the world will be if I don’t choke on a Biden vote, but from my perspective it’s pretty shitty already. I’ve voted for the least evil in every election, only for us to arrive here.

        • Do the dead gazans at the hands of American bombs think I should vote for Biden?

          Of course they would, because they know trump would actively grind their surviving families to dust.

          I’ve voted for the least evil in every election, only for us to arrive here.

          Yes but I’m sure you realise that’s not causative. We’re not in this situation because you voted progressive in every election. We’re in this situation because too many of your countrymen became apathetic and didn’t vote because “both sides are just as bad”.

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            I certainly never said it’s causative, but it doesn’t make any real difference in terms of the way that this country is going.

            • I don’t follow.

              If everyone voted and the dems had a very clear majority that would make a very real difference in terms of the way the country is going.

              If progressives like your good self withhold their vote in protest, the best we will get is the dems just barely getting up - the shitty status quo we have presently.

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                16 months ago

                We’ve been told that all our lives, but look at the current dems, they aren’t going to fix anything. I’ve hired people, if I had these three resumes in front of me, my conclusion is that they all will make things worse, so I would not hire any of them. Call it a protest non-vote if it makes you feel any better but incrementalism means nothing when we’ve all pulled that least evil lever in hopes for improvement while the world burns, while we participate in another mass killing, when my children need to have the same fights that I, and my parents, and grandparents have been fighting.

                I think the system is broken, the ship is going down so I truly no longer care who captains it, I’m busy looking for a liferaft.

                • You have a habit of speaking in metaphors, but none are really analogous.

                  if I had these three resumes in front of me, my conclusion is that they all will make things worse, so I would not hire any of them

                  If you don’t choose the best, someone else is going to hire the worst on your behalf and you’ll be stuck with them.

                  the ship is going down so I truly no longer care who captains it, I’m busy looking for a liferaft

                  Voting will not distract you from looking for a life-raft, the right captain will not murder the other passengers, and there’s no life-raft anyway.

                  We’ve been told that all our lives,

                  Not evidence that its not true.

                  look at the current dems, they aren’t going to fix anything.

                  Precisely because they don’t have enough votes to fix anything, because voters are lost to this “both sides are just as bad” narrative from the conservatives.

                  • 4grams
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                    16 months ago

                    Again, I’ve heard and made all these same arguments. I’ve been told for decades that we just need to vote harder. I do realize that if we had an overwhelming election that things may change but when we look at who’s currently running, the fact that we’re putting up a guy who’s doing everything possible to create his own Vietnam for reasons I simply cannot fathom, tells me that those in power really give zero shits.

                    If there was some reason to be inspired or believe that my vote will make things better, then sign me up. But I’ve done it for ages and my voice of rationality has always been drowned out by the shallowest thinkers on the planet. I have no faith left that it will ever be different.

        • AmbroisindeMontaigu
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          56 months ago

          A democracy with only two options is a dictatorship of the winner. Your political influence isn’t limited to voting though, voting is the first action in a democracy, not the last.

          • 4grams
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            16 months ago

            Completely agreed.