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That alone sounds like a solid reason to vote for them. Why are people ignoring it? Are they fucking dumb??
The lesser-of-two-evil choice only makes sense when you’re using it to avoid a singular looming catastrophe. When it describes every election, people disengage from that process instead of actively voting for “evil” over and over again.
Short term utilitarianism is how you end up voting for 99% Hitler. Demand better.
People make decisions for reasons beyond a cold-blooded cost benefit analysis. Sometimes, when faced with an ultimatum, people will pick the worse option out of spite, especially if they are presented with the ultimatum repeatedly. If the only choices are dying quick and dying slow, hopeless people will pick "the less optimal option".
To be clear, I do not endorse this. This analysis is not justification. However, it is important to understand why this behavior happens in order to change things. If we want people to "stop picking the less optimal option", they need to be presented with better choices.
Sure, but if you don't endorse it, why entertain the idea that it's wrong to point it out? (not saying you do, but that's the OP)
Voting for the lesser evil and working for a better choice should be the way
When you say, "They're fucking dumb", it feels like you have no interest in understanding or changing why people make "less than optimal choices". The thing I don't endorse is disengaging from politics. I would like more people to be more active in politics because I believe in people power.
I 100% agree with you that people should be more active in politics and trying to change things for the future, but lesser evil politics is a very big reason we are in this mess right now. Because the Democratic Party has constantly been offering garbage options, people have decided to disengage from politics. People would rather jump off a burning building than die to the flames.
You'll never negotiate that point here. You'll get downvoted to oblivion instead. All sides that aren't a new candidate are just equal and the same and there's no nuance because otherwise you couldn't just sit on your couch and doom comment. You'd be have to be accountable for doing literally nothing and waiting for someone else to bring you a candidate.
That's the lazy entitlement you're dealing with here.
It's ELecTorALisM to point out the practical reality of the situation and generally speaking you just catch a ban. Double true in the next 12 hours when the other hemisphere provides its vast expertise on the 2 party system.
Fun times.
when the "lesser evil" is still a fascist who wants to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, they aren't a lesser evil than the group who also wants to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, you dumbass fucking nitwit. you absolute fucking baboon.
Hey can you come up with some more insults for us plz
I'm writing these down so I can use them to put some more weight behind my own arguments in the future
You seems to love insults because it allow you to deflect from the main argument
my argument didn't need any more weight, the insults were just for fun because you're an idiot.
And this is how the right wins. People acting like voting the lesser evil is the solution and not putting your foot down and saying “no more”.
So how has not voting for the lesser evil been working out for us lately?
there is no lesser evil. both sides are voting against trans rights, both sides want to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, both sides want to increase corruption, both sides want to funnel money into the military industrial complex, and both sides want to make the US more authoritarian and increase government surveillance and decrease civil rights.
voting for the "lesser evil" only works when there's a lesser evil to begin with.
You're doing all non-white and non-cishet people extremely dirty by acting like there's no difference between the two parties. You sound extremely privileged. There is a word of difference between kowtowing to corporate interests (which, yes, both parties do) and also actively seeking to exterminate all "undesirables".
eight democrats just voted for an anti-trans bill. don't even try that line, especially to someone who is a PoC and queer. your kind has been trying to wipe mine out for decades, the only difference between you and the republicans is that they are at least honest about hating us.
"My kind?" Sounds like you've become what you hate.
I'm an antifascist, I would never become a liberal
You must not have been following US politics for checks notes the last 5 decades
You must not have been following US politics for checks notes the last 5 decades
You got Trump because of the lesser of the two evil bullshit. Majority of americans decided Trump was the lesser of the two evil. I wonder how many more trump like president do you need to understand.
No, putting your foot down and saying no more was how the right won.
The left can't "just" win though. We need to be actively working to ratchet the party back to its principles.
Both sides are equally bad is stupidly binary thinking that only benefits the right.
I put a zip tie around your neck every minute you tell me whether to tighten it one click or two not saying one every time is stupid right maybe you start to resent the zip tie and tell me to fuck myself maybe you try to cut the zip tie or propose not tightening it at fucking all because you want fascism you chose two clicks by not saying one this is your fault
Good idea. Speed run that zip tie. Smart.
life is a zip tie
I just so happen to have your account tagged as “genocide defender” so it’s predictable that you would say something like that.
Yeah ok I'll tag you as "doesn't worry if the US goes even further down the shitter" so likewise I guess
You: “Why can’t you be guilted into voting for someone that can’t even pretend to try to stop an ongoing genocide being funded by their own constituents?!?!”
Hah stuff like this always reminds me about the guy from Gaza on Hexbear who made a last minute plea a few days before the election to please please not let Trump win, and the 'bears basically flipping him the bird
Haha. Stuff like this reminds me of THE MEME THAT THIS COMMENT THREAD IS FOR.
You’re literally demonstrating OP’s meme. Thanks for that. Great bit (though it IS a bit on-the-nose for my tastes).
Because their lives almost invariably get progressively worse under each administration, with the ruling party deciding the pace more than anything else? No form of government lasts long with only sticks.
Why would they choose the party that makes it go faster?
Kamala Harris put me in one of her rape dungeons when she was a head cop there were no points to be gained yet it was just a personal call say again I should have voted for her because I'm not the only one she did that too I wasnt there for long I got declared not guilty too so she got me raped for literally nothing and you think anyone should have supported her or any party who backed her what the fuck is wrong with you seriously fucking tell me what the fuck is wrong with you
Do you think Donnie T is keeping anyone from getting raped?
Sorry, but if you care about the total amount of rape you should have voted for her
This is the entire democratic party
They don't; people who don't see hope just don't vote. The people who do vote red are those who (correctly) see the current status quo as hopelessly corrupt but (incorrectly) believe their favorite fascist demagogue is the solution. That's what the "draining the swamp" stuff comes from.
Well who's dumber? The one who makes the wrong analysis and votes or the one who sees things right but doesn't?
There's things other than voting to be done
They are depressed and jaded. Money just keep flowing up, no matter what they do.
Nothing short of a revolution is going to change that.
If they're sitting on their asses during elections waiting for a revolution to drop by I guarantee you they're going to see a whole lot more money flowing up
Exactly. This is sort of why I agree with the accelerationists. Things have to get bad enough, quickly enough for them to get shocked into action.
Ratchet effect can only be so dead different between getting blown up with ten pounds of dynamite up my ass or a hundred is what even its what got idiots voting trump the fact nobody in system will ever advocate for even some of the like five or six things most americans agree on like money out of politics fix healthcare weed good genocide ~~bad~~expensive abortion when pregnancy nonviable pregnant life at risk and while thing result of rape cops ~~bad~~overpriced and do not need bunker busters