Unless Biden drastically reverses course on Palestine, Muslims will not turn out for him on Election Day—critical voters in key swing states—and Democrats only have themselves to blame.

Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.

I’ll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.

  • sloth [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    “When you vote for the lesser of two evils what happens? You always get evil, and you always get less” - who knows but I heard it somewhere

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I remember reading something like that from one of the Witcher books from that one Pole writer.

      Edit:

      “Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.”

      ― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

      • Venus [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        The point of this quote by Geralt in the story is that Geralt is wrong and using it as an excuse to avoid taking action to protect innocent lives. The result of this stance of his is that he butchers several people in a public square and gets driven out of town and forever labeled “The Butcher of Blaviken.” Only a couple pages after this ‘evil is evil’ monologue he says, verbatim, “We have to choose the lesser evil!”

      • kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s also important to remember that the president isn’t truly selected by votes - it’s very possible to get the most votes and still lose.