• rbhfd@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You just want to absolve yourself of that moral responsibility.

    That’s exactly what you are doing. You’re focusing on this one issue, retreating yourself from the binary decision because neither options stands for what you (or I, or morality) would prefer. Completely ignoring that withdrawing from the choice plays into the hand of the infinitely worse candidate. So by not choosing, you do nothing to stop the situation in Gaza, but might actually make things a lot worse for people all over.

    You can virtue signal that you did not compromise on your believes, while actually helping your country make a worse place.

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      10 months ago

      You’re focusing on this one issue

      We’ve raised lots of issues. The amounts of the stimulus checks, the way he fucked us over with the BBB, the way he negotiated down for student loan forgiveness, for fucking over the rail workers. The list goes on. Every time we mention something we get shut down. For someone who wants our votes so badly you have a really odd way of showing it.

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        10 months ago

        Now imagine all of that, with a splash of military enforced laws, harder anti-LGBTQ+ laws, defunding the EPA, pulling out of many international agreements, abortion in ANY circumstance being a criminal act….

        Read up on his plans before you do a thing stupid like… NOT voting.

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          10 months ago

          The stupid thing was to vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 primaries. Those people can go fuck themselves.

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              10 months ago

              I voted for Obama twice and Biden once. Call me whatever you want. At the end of the day, do you need my vote or not? If you want it I’ve given you the terms: don’t elect procorporate trash in the primaries.

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                10 months ago

                So…. You’re fine with Trump then? Thats what you’re saying.

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                  10 months ago

                  I’m fine with the people who voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries electing him all by themselves in 2024. They fucked over my interests in the primaries so they can go fuck themselves in the general.

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      10 months ago

      Like I said, there are so many other issues that Biden has betrayed me on. This is just the red line. Here and no further.

      You will let Biden do anything he wants to you and beg for more, just to stop Trump. It’s revolting.

      If enough Democrats pressured Biden to endorse a ceasefire by withholding their votes, he would! He’s a politician. That’s what politicians do. This is our only leverage! This is all we can do to stop the genocide, and I really think Biden would reconsider if it looked bad enough.