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You have only 2 outcomes. You can go there and shit on the ballot, that's an option. But it doesn't change having 2 outcomes.
You have only one outcome: the USA will move rightward.
To the extent that voting matters in a fundamentally broken electoral system like ours, voting for the democrats is an affirmation of the choices they have made: affirmation of their choice to arm genocide in Gaza, affirmation of their choice to move right on immigration, affirmation of their choice to abandon death penalty abolition from their platform, etc.
Why would they ever change course as a party if they still get the only thing they want from you either way? Lesser evil voting is a race to the bottom, and the longer people wait to correct the democrats' course, the more painful it will be to endure a republican government in the meantime.
The democrats will never stop this country from its rightward trajectory if they keep moving rightward with it because their base continually validates them.
There's actually an immense number of choices, but only 1 outcome, it's the same shit with either of the two possible winners. This is your candidate. I'm sure the woman who voted against federal funding for abortion on two separate times will turn out to be a great crusader for Roe v. Wade
The best you can do is work towards creating an alternative for the future, which requires that you do not vote for them - And I need to be clear, not voting for them is less than the least you can do. The least you can do is go out and [redacted]
Two outcomes for the election, not two choices. You exist outside of a ballot box
Elections are not isolated events in a vacuum, devoid of context, purely about which genocidal Imperialist wins.
From the Mario and Luigi of Communism,
At this point you're so fucking annoying that I kinda want whatever outcome hurts you
You're doing a great job campaigning for but we just won't vote for him sorry
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