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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Think of it like a trolley problem:

pull the R lever: more rape, fascism, genocide, omnicide, good chance your team wins;
pull the D lever: more oligarchy, genocide, with slightly slower omnicide, good chance your team wins;
pull the l, S, or G lever: reverse anthropogenic climate change, create an ethical economic system, sanction genocidal regimes, low chance your ideas win now - maybe later tho;
don't pull any lever: let the other 58.63% who vote, decide.

Edit: corrected %.

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[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)

pull the l, S, or G lever: ~~reverse anthropogenic climate change, create an ethical economic system, sanction genocidal regimes, low chance your ideas win now - maybe later tho;~~ NOTHING CHANGES

You pull the D lever. You get an immediate result.

Besides, compromise doesn't work this way. Whether you like it or not, you live in a country that has embraced fascism. They are a clear and present danger to the entire globe. But, sure, tell the parents of the dead Iranian schoolgirls that "Hey, I wasn't about to compromise my values just to save your little girl's life!"

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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago*

Being complicit in making the system more evil is fine for people who vote for the Ds; but if the Ds want the votes of the 41% of people who didn't vote (some because they won't cross ethical lines like voting for a pro-genocide, pro-omnicide, pro-capilatist party), then they need a different argument than "vote for the lesser evil again bro", because that didn't work against W and worked only a third of the time against Turmp. The Ds need to either give better reasons for voting for them, or they need to stop being a pro-genocide, pro-climate cascade, pro-capitalist party.

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