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Small acceptable amounts allows for a slightly larger amount next time. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by [M] to c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
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[–] [S] -2 points 3 months ago (16 children)

lesser evil won in 2020 & we got:

  • genocide
  • record police killings of Black Americans
  • record COVID deaths
  • record trans murders
  • 1st declared LGBTQIA+ emergency
  • homelessness criminalized
  • record inflation

Democrats didn't try to repeal the Patriot Act. They kept reauthorizing it. They didnt try to address Citizens United, they ignored it. They didn't try to close Guantanamo Bay. They didn't try to roll back ICE funding. And all the stuff that Trump is currently doing, they will do absolutely nothing to roll any of it back. Liberal lesser evil enables the greater evil. When liberals say lesser evil, what they mean is the same evil but affects them less.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago

    I will poke only one hole in your little list there.

    lesser evil won in 2020

    record COVID deaths

    pretty sure any number of deaths would've been record numbers...

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (12 children)

    And now the bigger evil won in 2024 and we got:

    • even more genocide
    • literal racist death squads (broke record too)
    • return of plenty more diseases
    • even bigger record of trans murders
    • declared LGBTQIA+ as enemies of the state
    • homelessness killings and deportations
    • even bigger record inflation that is making people go bankrupt

    Thank you for proving the point that voting lesser evil slows the decline.

    Fight for a third party during pre-election, but not during the election when it is obvious to everyone the third party isn't going to do anything.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    It doesn't slow anything, there's an option of no harm but liberals are terrified of using it because the current system benefits THEM so much. All the harm that trump has created will be kept in place by Democrats once he's out, the exact same way they kept most of his first term stuff under Biden. Their ratchet effect always prevents Republican actions from ever slipping back.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (10 children)

    What's the no harm option?

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Expressing power outside the voting booth

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (8 children)

    OK, so what stops you from doing that as well as voting?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    Nothing. And that's what we all have to do, since voting doesn't fix 99% of the problems we need to solve. It's like trying to build muscle by studying math. Will studying math help you when you need to track your progress and understand angles and pulleys? Yes. But studying math isn't going to build muscle. Nothing is stopping me from going to the gym and also studying math, but studying math isn't actually the thing that will build muscle.

    Voting isn't solving any of our problems. Can it help a little bit with some of them? Maybe. But we need to be honest about what it will solve.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Can it help a little bit with some of them? Maybe

    Congrats, you agree with me.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Hey, don't let me stop you from signing up for trigonometry in order to build strength.

    I'll be at the gym.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

    Jesus Christ it really is like talking to Trump supporter.

    My message is an always has been doing both. Dumbass.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Why stop at two things? You could also be praying, buying crystals, and never changing your lucky underwear

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Because those don't do anything. Voting imperially, factually, undeniable makes some difference, you already admitted that.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Oh yes, I agree that voting makes some difference. But it's never stopped a war in 250 years. It's never stopped a genocide in 250 years. It's never liberated the working class in 250 years. It didn't give women the right to vote. It didn't give black people the right to vote. Honestly, I can't think of a single major policy that voting ever effected.

    Oh wait. I know why I think that. Because it's been empirically proven: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure record covid deaths happened in 2020 not 2021 when Biden was president.

    Also, you do realize that "first declared" is better than leaving it undeclared right?

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