• Sybil
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    -2511 months ago

    if i would vote for jill stein or cornel west (i mean, i have to be honest, it’s nice to have choices) or the libertarian or no candidate at all, how do any of those votes help republicans?

    the only vote that helps republicans is a vote for a republican.

    • Lemdee
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      2011 months ago

      Wrong. Dead fucking wrong. Due to our current shitty system the only parties with any chance of winning are Dems or GOP, every vote that doesn’t go to the Dems is another point the GOP has over them. If you don’t vote for Dems you’re facilitating fascism. Simple as.

      I don’t like our choices but we don’t have the option to be fucking picky right now, there’s fascists at the door and they’re working hard to ruin our lives.

      • timicin
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        -1111 months ago

        voting for the lesser evil will only serve to guarantee that you will forever be voting for the lesser evil and that you will reach the same evil that the alternative raced towards, but slower.

        • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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          1511 months ago

          Thats really poetic but observe our choices in reality in relation to the systems we built to usher them in. You don’t cut your parachute just because you’re falling anyway.

        • osarusan
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          311 months ago

          My god, what a stupid take.

          The lesser evil is by definition the better choice! If you refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils, you are effectively choosing the greater evil. It does not get any stupider than that.

          • Sybil
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            -511 months ago

            If you refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils,

            you are choosing not to vote for evil.

              • Sybil
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                -411 months ago

                in the trolley scenario, i don’t touch the lever. you can choose to be a murderer, but i won’t.

      • GodlessCommie
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        -1211 months ago

        The fascists at the door were invited in by democrat enablers

      • Sybil
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        -1811 months ago

        voting for Democrats facilitates fascism.

      • Sybil
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        -411 months ago

        these aren’t magic phrases that change my vote for one person into a vote for another person.