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[–] [email protected] 172 points 6 months ago (7 children)

I'm with you on what the meme is trying to say, but the bottom track needs to be shown looping around to the Republican track and running over everyone.

Because that's where the third track leads.

[–] [email protected] 92 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Yep, not voting is unironically pretty much the same as voting for the party you least want in charge.

Because you're making it that much more likely.

Don't throw away a right that your ancestors fought for, as it may result in future generations no longer having that right.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Hitler's government was a popular government; the vast majority of Germans preferred the rule of gangsters to the effort of thinking and doing for themselves. They abdicated their franchise.

[...]

The former Berlin businessman I referred to earlier told me that he blamed his own group, people with the time and the money and the opportunity to know better, for what happened to Germany. "We ignored Hitler," he said. "We considered him an unimportant fellow, not quite a gentleman, not of our own class. We considered it just a little bit vulgar to bother with him, to bother with politics at all."

They thought of the government as "They." The only possible route to a clear conscience in politics is to accept political responsibility, either as an active member of the party in power or as an equally active member of the loyal opposition.

—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Similarly, MLK saw "the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice" as the biggest impediment to civil rights.

The bottom line is that being secure enough in your position in society to think you don't have to engage in politics, or that you can afford to vote your principles instead of tactically, is itself a form of privilege. Those sorts of privileged people think themselves neutral or uninvolved or maybe (in the case of professed leftists refusing to vote Dem as a protest) on their own third side, but the reality is that they are the right-wing authoritarians' greatest ally every single time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Lol imagine thinking "moderate white" doesn't perfectly describe the majority of people walking into the 2020 primaries and voting for Joe Biden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're not wrong about the primary, but you are wrong to conflate the primary with the general election when it's the latter that we're talking about here.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

Lol so I'm "radical" in the primaries when I don't vote for Biden but I'm "moderate" in the general when I don't vote for Biden?

That's not how labels work sir.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

That's not how it went, though. It's, in fact, the opposite of how it went. Hitler had relatively little popular support, but full support of the industrial elite. It's blaming the people for the crimes of the elite. "They abdicated their franchise" no, fuckface, half of them voted communist. "We ignored Hitler" no, fuckface, you put him in power because you thought he'd be malleable.

I'm not surprised Heinlein bought it, though. And I'm not surprised people here are buying it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

It's funny that both democrats and third party voters will look at your comment and think you're on their side.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like so?
Also, let's have 'im on the track too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

"Oh, no, I'm not in any of those groups on the track, so I can safely not vote and have a clear conscience as it crushes everyone!"

Then they came for me...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

"All men were created equal"

IS SLAVE STATE

always jave been coming for us.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

As someone who for the first time did not vote in 2016. I started voting in the Bush era. I fully agree, no action leads to fascism apparently. Don’t do what I did because I was pissed that Bernie was cheated out of the nomination. Vote or Trump will be back in office.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't matter where the track leads if the trolley can't get to it. It could lead to rainbows and sunshine, but that isn't where the trolley is headed because there is no possibility that someone other than Trump or Biden is elected president. A few cry babies voting third party won't get some third person elected. A vote for the third track is a vote for a track that will not be ridden.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

It could be a little model trolley track going in a loop with no trolley on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It makes sense because you can see that the track exists and is better, but there’s no way to actually get the train onto it

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

the bottom track needs to be shown looping around to the Republican track

Okay, but the guy at the controls needs to be the swing vote on the SCOTUS.