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Edit of yesterday's meme with accounted for non-voters

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Agreed but the chance those tracks will be destroyed before the election is slim.

I applaud your call to activism but in reality much less people will ever commit to fighting for their ideals that way.

Many more people will however are willing to give a token to a “right cause”

Voting D is that token. It doesn't fix shit, especially considering the genocide but it will be a slower decline of human rights then the alternative.

More time to do activism.

There are many others, also on lemmy that are not calling for activism but for a token of not voting. I think the meme is a representation of that particular logic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Everything you said is correct. I just don't want to see all the surprised Pikachu when their inaction and self-righteousness results in a Trump victory. They'll cry, "why didn't the Palestinian and Arab Americans show up for the democrats?!"

The train hasn't hit yet there are still millions of lives we can save by doing more than just voting. If we're not willing to do everything to save them, why should they do anything to save us? I don't care how close the train is. I'll be trying to destroy the tracks until it hits me and the persons tied to the tracks. That's my point.

These memes boil an unbelievably complex issue to a binary outcome. Marginalized communities are going to be there regardless of the outcome of the elections. Don't wait until the train is about to hit you or something you care about before you decide to start dismantling the tracks. Then see how you feel when someone presumes your inevitable cleansing. I honestly feel like I'm living in Bizarro world or something. Like is what I'm saying beyond our capacity? We are doomed if we won't all step on the tracks to stop the trains.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

These memes boil an unbelievably complex issue to a binary outcome.

Yes. There will be a binary outcome very very soon.

Trump will win our Harris will win.

Trump will try to make worse things happen. Kamala will try to make better things happen.

It's simple. It's binary. Trump or Harris. There is no third possibility. There are no shades of grey.