• mlg@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I mean doyee?

    No one’s voting 3rd party because they think they’ll win, they’re just throwing away a vote for Harris. Their statement is that they have no issue with another 4 years of Trump because their demands aren’t being met anyway (cough genocide).

    You can argue all day about the rationality and lack of utilitarianism, but it won’t change anything.

    If MLK were alive, he’d probably vote Democrat because he believes there is a solution in comprise over time, and keeping Republicans out is beneficial to that. (He generally favored the more progressive party).

    If Malcolm X were alive, he’d probably be protesting just like the uncommitted group, but choose not to vote if his major demand wasn’t met, because his reasoning would be that any promised or hypothetical solutions would not come to fruition. (The Ballot or the Bullet)

    Both have valid reasoning, and it can obviously depend on the situation, but it bugs me that 50 years later people still don’t understand why people choose to vote a certain way.

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      Change won’t come overnight (at least without revolution). Like evolution, it requires constant pressure on the system. Changes that are too radical kill the organism.

      A long as people think we can jump from Geoge H.W. Bush to Bernie Sanders in one election it’s going to continue to fail.

      Votw Harris this time. Vote for the person slightly more liberal than her next time, etc. It’s a process.

      • Socialist Mormon Satanist@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        But with the Democratic party, the conversation is ALWAYS “Vote us this time…” or “This election is too important!” They’ve been saying that for 50 years. Nah, friend. Now is the time for me to vote third party. Tired of waiting.

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The US isn’t causing the genocide in Gaza and it will if anything be exacerbated if we bring in Trump to support Bebe

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    1 year ago

    So practically speaking, there is no anti-genocide vote. There is no health care for everyone vote. There is no reduction in firearm caused deaths of children and teens vote. There is no anti corporate regulatory capture vote. These things just are not possible to achieve in America by voting.

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        1 year ago

        Edit: I dont know what the hell is going on with this person. I am for damn sure not a nazi.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There is a vote for MORE or LESS of all of the above. It’s not like your vote doesn’t matter. Do you want more genocide, or less genocide? “No genocide” isn’t an option. So do you want more genocide, or less genocide?

      • SeanBrently@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        OK I want LESS.

        I have been wanting less for a long time. Those things I want LESS of don’t seem to be reduced by much since I became eligible to vote. Voting’s not enough.