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I am against genocide, and I am acting accordingly. I am voting for the candidate that will cause less genocide, not more.
You're announcing your vote for the people doing genocide. You don't get to call yourself anti-genocide. You are for hypothetical-lesser-evil genocide. You do actual advocacy for people doing genocide.
You'd think that literal genocide might make Democratic voters question their electoral illogic around lesser evil cheerleading. You have the option of, for example, saying nothing.
In 1930s Germany you'd be a Nazi supporter saying, "well at least I'm not a monarchist antisemite". Everyone imagines themselves as people who would leave or fight. Now you can see, in part, where the reactionaries and their sympathizers found footing, because you'd have been among them.