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Ah so you think the third of the country that didn't vote was based and revolutionary, not just passively endorsing Trump.
No. I'm saying we need something new.
Whatever side you are on, unless it is the billionaires, the USA dies when Elon was allowed to take every bit of our most sensitive data and secrets. We are talking about the Pentagon, OPM, and Social Security. Unknown foreign agents with ILLEGAL access, downloaded it all to external servers and I stalled AI and code.
On top of this, our government has been revealed to be a majority of foreign paid agents from Israel that have blackmailed the worst of our politicians into doing their bidding.
These tech Nazis have been given actual military units and ranks, and now Palmer Lucky and Elon Musk will be overseeing killing, autonomous drones that may or may not have nukes.
We lost, we aren't voting our way out of this
Ok
I get that.
I really for sure get that.
But there's an election happening I'm not not going to let Republicans take office while I still can vote.
So while we're all gearing up for the downfall of the American government, I'm going to vote for anyone who's got a chance of winning against Republicans.
It's not going to magically fix the system. I'm not under any pretense it'll fix this mess.
But I'm going to do everything I can, and that includes voting.
I will be forced to vote for AIPAC and genocide too. And then our slim margins will always mean "you don't want another trump in here!"
Maybe it will wake people up when no one from MAGA is really punished or he doesn't accept the results and there is no one to enforce the law. I think we will just reenact everything from Iraq again.
This can't go on
So people who don't vote actually dont endorse a candidate. This is a bit of an advanced piece of politics, but the way voting in the US works is you vote for a candidate and if you dont vote for someone, then they dont get your vote.
Your logic rests on an assumption that the democrats are owed your vote, which they aren't. Had Harris won, then you wouldnt be saying the people who didnt vote passively endorsed her, but they would have done that just as much.
Those who don't vote are in fact doing the opposite of endorsing anyone, they are signalling apathy with the system.
Because the only political action one can take is vote, alright
You dont contribute to "lessening" evil by voting for a genocider.
You talk about sitting out of reality, yet you exist in some fantasy land where democrats haven't made everything much much worse
The only one that matters in the current reality. Yes
Not really, no. Your ahistoric approach to politics where you only think of the specific immediate moment is how we got here, and that thinking is how we stay here.
There are plenty of viable alternatives with a decent organisational structure already. One way to help them grow is to vote for them, and that is better use of a vote than wasting it on fascist genociders.
How did that third party vote work last time. Or the time before that. Or the time before that....etc etc etc.
Your fantasy vision is not reality. It is your fantasy. And your inability to see the difference is incredibly dangerous
This thread is so old there is no longer an audience and you yourself are clearly beyond reason, so I will not waste my time writing more responses to you in this thread.
Worked quite a bit better than voting for genociders, considering how you have to pretend to give a shit, AIPAC has become radioactive, everyone keeps bringing me not voting for a genocider up as the reason the genocider lost - thus actually making a demand of the candidates.
Tell me, how has it worked voting for someone marginally less aesthetically shit than the other guy? Have conditions improved or are you now at a spot where not even genocide is a red line for your candidate?