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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (3 children)

What does genocide have to do with voting though? Is there a choice? With abortion there is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are plenty of voting choices against Genocide. They just so happen to not be Democrat (or Republican).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Jill Stein, Cornel West, even the Libertarians if you're more right wing.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So your options are three people who have absolutely no chance of getting even a single electoral college vote, let alone a majority. Or in other words, to potentially feed the spoiler effect.

Being a single issue voter doesn't make sense at the best of times, but when it means you're voting for someone who has no chance of winning and potentially helping an even worse candidate get into office, it's even worse. If we had ranked-choice voting on a nationwide count, it wouldn't be as bad (and would be fine if after you'd voted for those candidates on the one issue you actually weighed in between the major candidates), but that's sadly not the world in which we live.

Go ahead and vote third party if you're in a state like Alabama where there's no chance of a difference regardless. But in a swing state, third party votes can and do add up to lives lost.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well purely on the genocide topic... While both major parties appear to be okay with one genocide, only one of them appears to want to do their own genocides within the US.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There's a difference between doing it against foreign brown people or American brown people?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where on earth did you get that from my comment? If one genocide is bad, surely that same genocide (although arguably made more effective) plus an entirely separate, second genocide is worse?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You're saying the red line is at 2 Genocides not 1 Genocide?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You're very good at misrepresenting what people say. Are you saying that 2 genocides is not worse than 1 genocide?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No I'm finding out where you stop voting for Democrat.

Say Trump does 25 Genocides and the Democrats 24. What are you voting for?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will always use my vote to the maximum effect of harm reduction. Why aren't you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you're voting third party?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I said harm reduction, not living in a fantasy world.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you reducing the harm or participating in it?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Any action, including inaction when you can act, is participating. I'm choosing the most effective way to minimise the harm.

Why are you trying to encourage people to take actions that have the result of making the situation worse? Why are you supporting more genocide?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

You are the person voting for Genocide and actively supporting it. It seems you are projecting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes Kamala is in favor of a two state solution and thinks more should be done to protect the innocents caught in the middle, and Trump told Netanyahu to “finish the job”.

Quite the choice.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So Trump is honest and Kamala lies to get votes?

Guess who "is in favor of a two state solution" as well: Biden says he's pushing a 2-state solution. Let's put him to the test.

Liberal memory capacity is a sight to behold.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jill Stein. No one said you have to pick your favorite of the 2 Hitlers to vote for.