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We are literally in a battle for our ability to vote.
Abstaining from said battle is effectively saying "I don't care" and letting Trump do what he will. If he chooses to send nukes to Palestine to end the conflict immediately, that's on everyone that abstained. If he ends aid to Ukraine and those people die, that's on everyone that abstained.
If he ends voting, you "won some moral battle" but you've all but permanently lost the war against genocide as the most powerful military and weapons on the planet are now in the hands of an authoritarian, raciest, fascist, regime that previously imposed a "Muslim ban" and I'm sure would happily do so again.
There is no hypocrisy here, and it's disingenuous to imply there is.
If you want to protest genocide, then GO DO IT, don't throw away a vote because that's not a protest, it's a pathetic excuse.
If you (allegedly) feel compelled to vote for genocide there is little value in your vote in the first place.
You are not in a battle. You are a human looking at a phone or computer screen trying to normalize voting for genociders and after doing so you will stay home. If you believed your own words you'd be posting signup sheets for shifts in Voter Protection Brigades, ready to take the fight to those attempting to disenfranchise you.
Instead, you are sitting around trying to rationalize support for genocide.
The policy is already genocide, you don't have a bigger gun to try pointing at people's heads. If you cared about Palestinian life you would already understand this. Unfortunately you care more about your naive political sensibilities.
The Dems are certainly worse for Ukraine, they are using them as cannon fodder to hurt Russia.
Both parties' presidents are inherently authoritarian.
Both parties are exceptionally racist, one is just polite and euphemistic about it, normalizing their version of racism so that you accept it without a second thought.
In other news, have you seen Kamala's stellar polic for getting black guys to buy crypto?
To the extent Trumpnis fascist, we have already been there for decades and decades buddy.
Did you notice the recent EO for domestic military deployments? Betcha didn't. Y'all igmore fashy policies when your side does them. Incidentally, if your party is the bullwark against fascism, why is it giving the president so much power to invoke martial law? Hmmmmmmmmm.
That is the correct term for all American governments, yes.
Both parties have racist immigration policies, Dems just do it without much pushback. You see their "immigration reform" paxkage they tried to push through Congress?
I don't think it is hypocrisy per se. I think most Americans are just racist and too embarrassed to admit it.
I don't want to protest against genocide, I want to build power against it. And so far it is going relatively okay, though certainly not with any help from people like yourself. You are our explicit opponents that work against us.