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What do you tell your “left-leaning” neoliberal friends when they guilt-trip you into voting for their candidates (lemmygrad.ml)

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In every election “left-leaning” neoliberals always try to guilt-trip Marxists into voting for their candidates with the usual schpiel: “Your party doesn't have enough votes to win. You are just letting conservatives win”. What do you tell these people?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

It’s always the same “something something First Past The Post” spiel. You gotta vote for the opponent of who you hate. I just argue about how broken it is and I may get some nods in agreement here and there but everyone always says “that’s just how it is.” Anytime I bring up the possibility of the system needing to change, through whatever means necessary, I get shot down and condescended to.