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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] 5 points 1 year ago

I have friends all over the world, so the takes tend to vary a lot. Most of my uni friends were from China and have since moved back there, we tend to have pretty similiar politics. I live in Japan now and discussing who you are voting for would be a rarity, I don't even really know how my partner votes. I don't think I have ever met a single person in the country who was excited to vote for a LDP candidate.

I do have friends in the states still, who tend to be the most vocal about this kind of thing. Most that I would truly consider a friend over there is fairly leftist. A few of the more liberal ones grudgingly vote Democrat, but none of them are excited about it or would try to convince me to do the same.

I have acquantances who are shitlibs and are excited about their purple candidate of choice, but it's not really worth getting into it over a guy I last saw in person five years ago.