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Edit of yesterday's meme with accounted for non-voters

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

"In this example, your options are:

A. Voting for Hitler. (Hitler wins)

B. Voting for Super Hitler. (Super Hitler wins)

C. Voting 3rd party (Super Hitler wins)

D. Not voting (Super Hitler wins)"

Me: Ok, those options suck, but 'A' I guess?

"OMG, wow, advocating voting for Hitler? Literal fascist."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (17 children)

I can't believe I have to say this, but "being literally Hitler" should be automatically disqualifying. You should not, under literally any circumstances, support Hitler.

This should not be controversial.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

It isn't controversial, but voting isn't the same as supporting.

Nowhere in this scenario between Hitler and Super Hitler would I support Hitler, but I would still vote for Hitler out of the two because it would lead to best results out of the possible outcomes at that time.

Your pearl-clutching is saying you're equally fine with both Hitler and Super Hitler, which is objectively worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

@[email protected]

Why are you voting at all? Haven't you figured out yet that elections are a circus designed to make you think you have a choice? How have billions of people been convinced that playing by rules established by 'them' is going to work to benefit justice? Who counts the votes? The very same people you might be voting against command the ones counting the vote. If the electorate is not separate from and superior to the political power, then an election is a farce no matter who votes, and no matter who wins.

All the candidates are Adolf. All the candidates are always Adolf. Adolf Senior, Adolf Junior, Adolf Lite, Fuzzy Adolf, Slimy Adolf, Orange Adolf, Busty Adolf, Regal Adolf, Caesar Adolf, Genghis Adolf, Pope Adolf, King Adolf, Queen Adolf, etc., yada, yada, yada .....

These days it seems that Godwin's Law has been heavy-dosing steroids and meth. Adolf died 70 years ago and went to seed. Now we have 100 thousand Adolfos all in cahoots.

Voting from the pool of candidates chosen, groomed, and funded by the real rulers, is literally slaves voting for the less evil of pre-approved masters.

VOTE HARDER.

#VoteHarder #ThatWillShowThem

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If for no other reason, then because the election gives an opportunity to advocate for a socialist platform and ideals. According to Lenin, socialists have a responsibility to participate in bourgeois elections until the people have given up on them and stopped paying attention to them.

Whilst you lack the strength to do away with bourgeois parliaments and every other type of reactionary institution, you must work within them because it is there that you will still find workers who are duped by the priests and stultified by the conditions of rural life; otherwise you risk turning into nothing but windbags.

Our culture considers how you vote to be the defining aspect of your political character. Voting for a specific candidate makes people feel more inclined to defend that candidate's actions. Not voting promotes disengagement from politics altogether. Moreover, a party like PSL can use the attention it gets from the election to promote itself which it can then use to organize in other ways beyond elections.

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