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Voting isn't a love letter, it's a chess move. Biden, Harris and other establishment liberals absolutely deserve to be relentlessly mocked and criticized (and frankly indicted) for cheerleading Israel's genocide, but aiding in the political victory of someone twice as genocidal as them, and who also intends to end democracy and target his political opponents would be a dumb move.
Chess moves is a great analogy. There is many situations in chess where you might win a figure but move yourself in a loosing position. The best chess players are those that can think the furthest ahead.
The political culture is embracing you to never think past the next election. Dont question the set up you are given. Dont think outside the box. Dont think how not punishing the supposed moral site of politics for genocide might make genocide accepted morals in the long run.
And then if brown people can be genocided in the Middle East, why not in Central America before they flee to the US? And once we are accustomed to that, what about the brown people already living in the US? Sure they speak Spanish instead of Arabic, but there is so awful many of them these days....
That is the longterm outset we see. As climate change will push for migration and refugee seeking beyond anythinf we can fathom these days and as the supposed moral sides of politics in white supremacist countries are embracing "solutions" that used to be of the fringes of the far right, we are descending into white supreme fascism.
Hey, just one human to another. That "Voting isn't a love letter, it's a chess move" just does absolufuckinglutely nothing and comes across as insulting/pompous on your part. You're insulting someone's vote as a "love letter" (great way to get someone to read and contemplate when you're taking the meaning of the vote out of context). And your "chess move" isn't as intelligent as you think, you're in check and you only have one move.
Just one more fucking week to go and I can't wait. It's gonna be so great to see next week how Lemmy is just flooded with 3rd party initiatives, voting changes organization, donations to local and national 3rd party candidates, a heavy focus on anti-gerrymandering and securing voting rights. We're not gonna continue to discuss how there's no options and we can't support other candidacies for at least 3 years....right? Everyone saying now is not the right time is gonna be super active next week with pushing to support the future parties.... right?!
Pretty sure that's the intent.