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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Personally I usually vote. Because I usually have welfare that if I didn’t have I wouldn’t be here much longer. So like for me voting feels life and death.

Fucking mood. I'm currently fighting with healthcare and SNAP. As if dropping 40 pounds in the past fucking year and a half wasn't enough.

But I definitely also can understand people who won’t vote for the “less worse candidate”. If the less worse candidate has been bombing your family yeah no. No vote. Obviously.

Who does that serve? Murdering someone else's family? Murdering more members of one's own family?

Fuck, man, several million people are already slated for death because the less horrific candidate didn't win the last election in the fucking USA.

Voting isn't a love letter, and if someone thinks their feelings of moral purity are more important than lives of marginalized people, they aren't moral in the least.

Let me put it this way - the SPD, KPD, Zentrum, conservative parties, and the Nazi Party were all intensely homophobic. The SPD was less bad than the rest.

Is letting the Nazi Party win in Weimar Germany, then, a morally acceptable alternative to voting for the SPD, or any of the others, if you're a member of the LGBT community?

If a Ukrainian-American refused to vote for a candidate promising to stop supporting Israel's genocide against Palestine because the candidate didn't pledge any change in support for Ukraine in their struggle against Russian imperialism and genocide, would that be morally acceptable?