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[–] [email protected] 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (74 children)

Go ahead, pressure the lesser evil to be even less evil, but you still have to vote for said lesser evil, or you're gonna be stuck with the massively bigger evil and no human rights.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Maybe ask yourself the same thing? Who are you trying to convince with this post?

Also why are we wasting our server bandwidth on boring meme templates of a known groomer? Put some effort in, this is an F-tier meme

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (10 children)

So, like,

  1. Still do exactly as the "don't vote" stooges say and let the fascists win
  2. But now also join them in posting anti-Democratic memes to actively aid the fascists
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The idea that memes 'pressure' people to vote is kinda funny but the idea that memes pressure politicians to be less evil is knee-slapping hilarious.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (28 children)

He doesn't realize that US military funding of Israel has been paused many times - including by Biden - as a lever to try to force change. That funding is the leverage we have over Israel. Fully halting it eliminates that leverage, and then what?

Also, the GOP has put forward legislation to remove the ability of the president to pause those deliveries, which also eliminates that leverage in a worse way. Biden has said he would veto that bill, by the way.

I've mentioned this before, as you well know, but it deserves mentioning again here. The fact that you can criticize Biden and there's an outside chance he'll listen makes him the better candidate than the guy who listens to nobody on anything that's not about how to make him more money, with disregard to whether the money-making scheme is legal.

Edit: Let's also not forget that the guy who listens to nobody also uses literal WWII Nazi language at his presidential campaign rallies, kind of all the time - along with an ever-increasing litany of repugnant behaviors, any one of which would have immediately halted any other political campaign in its tracks. But let's not ever criticize that; it's all the Democrats' fault.

I've also said that the people who bark about this, only ever criticising Biden and Democrats, are either foreign propagandists or wholly taken by them. I stand by that statement.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Because the lesser evil isn’t reading Lemmy, but lots of people on Lemmy can vote? If you’re using social media to organize in a way that will have real visibility, then more power to you. But if you think memes on Lemmy are going to influence the White House, I’ve got some bad news for you.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (5 children)

You think politicians use lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Doing both. The POTUS doesn't read Lemmy and go "haha these fools are gonna vote for me, I don't gotta change shit". To the extent you can influence that office at all, you can do it while simultaneously urging people to vote for the lesser evil.

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