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I'm told that this is a real picture. - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)

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A vote for Genocide Joe is a vote for Genocide

updated link as the lemmitors removed it for being "political" and then reposted it to politicalmemes

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[-] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago

cw: terminal liberalism

Donald Trump is Genocide at home and abroad.

Joe Biden is “only” Genocide abroad, and probably less of it.

Therefore, a vote for Joe Biden is a Vote against genocide.

No, it doesn’t matter that he’s an active participant in the apparatus that’s creating the genocide, because if he’s in office there’s less genocide. Which is the important part, and pretending otherwise is sophistry. If you abstain from voting, you are increasing the likelihood of more genocide and if you discourage others from voting, you are an active participant in the overall social apparatus that is probabilistically increasing the amount of genocide.

The utility calculation is dead simple: more votes for Biden in key states makes more genocide less likely, and discouraging people from voting for Biden makes more genocide more likely. Therefore, discouraging people from voting for Biden is a pro-genocide strategy and voting for Biden in battleground states is an anti-genocide strategy. You should vote for Biden unless you live in a solid blue state, and even then it’s not a bad idea.

TLDR: if you encourage people to not vote for Biden, that’s supporting genocide. Accelerationism never works for us.

Interesting, face the wall please.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

lol they think biden isnt genocide at home

cute

[-] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago

not doing anything about trans genocide in florida and so on is tacit support of it

[-] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

"But Biden is powerless to stop that! Also Trump would totally have the power to do it more cuz the GOP just magically has more executive power somehow!"

[-] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

The GOP has shown the executive does have a lot of power, it reaffirms that Biden could do something but is actively choosing not to.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not in the habit of praising Nazis.

But I do wish that Democrats had even a quarter of their "will to power". Their willingness to bend the levers of power in the direction they see fit. Their willingness to ignore norms and decorum, in order to further their agenda. The ruthless cunning, the naked real politique, The decades long plans like slowly taking over the federal judiciary.

Of course, what I'm complaining about is the system working as intended. The fecklessness of democrats is not a bug. It is a feature of the system.

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