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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (56 children)

Get out of here with this tired stuff.

All of this (gestures broadly) is the direct and inevitable result of lesser-evilism. A few people not sitting out the last election may have delayed this timeline (though I’m doubtful there were even enough protest-non-voters to make any difference), but this has been building for a long time and Harris hadn’t talked about any plans to reverse that trend.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (43 children)

    Immigrants and trans people are just collateral damage to you?

    Our suffering is a necessary evil?

    What if I don’t want to be a pawn in your fucking game? What if I just wanted to live a happy life?

    Fuck me for wanting a normal life rather than being fodder for your battles?

    Your assumption that we’d defeat this so called “inevitable threat” throws people like me into the fire, and you could be wrong.

    What if you’re wrong?

    What if NOT letting this happen was our last chance, and we will never be free the way we used to ever again now… because of people like you?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (18 children)

    I think you misunderstood me. Voting for the “lesser evil” is a valid strategy if it comes up every once in a while and you can use it to avert disaster, but when every single election comes down to voting for the “lesser evil”, then you just end up on a steady march toward an evil outcome.

    We’ve been on this path for decades, with today’s Democrats being far to the right of where Republicans were fifty years ago. Even if Harris wasn’t as bad as Trump (which she almost certainly wouldn’t be), she would help build the framework for the next Trump-like monster that followed her.

    You don’t fix an evil system by voting for evil over and over again, evil if it’s the lesser evil. We need to stop seeing Democratic candidates like Harris and the like for any movement away from evil to happen.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (14 children)

    So the answer is yes.

    Minorities are collateral damage to your moral crusade.

    Maybe look in the mirror every so often before repeatedly spouting off about evil.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    And don't forget the thousands of brown people that have been murdered in their own countries as a result. Their sacrifice is apparently acceptable if it helps save glorious American politics.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    We need to stop seeing Democratic candidates like Harris and the like for any movement away from evil to happen.

    And we need to stop electing fascists if we ever want a chance to "see" (read: vote for) such a candidate. It's actually not about this abstract, undefined "greater evil vs lesser evil" bullshit, it's about what the two viable candidates were actually likely to do once in power. Everyone knew Trump was a fascist who would try to literally end democracy, he's done it before and it was essentially his entire platform. Yet here we are. Dems, as experience has taught us, were likely to piddle around for four to eight years and do some performative but ineffectual lip service to their base, while keeping what passes as democracy in place. Seems like a pretty easy choice to me. You can't fix a system from within if the system has been burned to ground.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I totally agree. I think keeping the extreme evil of Trump out of power was worth voting for a controlled opposition establishment Democrat (and of course I voted for Harris and didn’t sit the election out).

    A campaign based on lesser evil drives down voter turnout if it’s used every single election, which it has been for so long. The one reprieve we’ve had was Obama (the first time, when he still seemed progressive) running on a campaign of hope and change. Trump is the worst we’ve seen so far, but all of the Republican candidates back to at least Reagan were pretty awful people and the Democratic stance was mostly just pointing out how awful they are.

    If we consistently don’t get opposition candidates with a positive message and plan for fixing things, we end up with low voter turnout and monsters like Trump in office.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    So you're an accelerationist and can be totally disregarded.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Pulling your head out of the sand doesn’t make you an accelerationist. Nobody with any sense wanted Trump, but thinking that a Harris win was going to set us on the right track is delusional.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    Who said anything about righting the ship? You do that by primarying democrat incumbents with progressives and socialists in every primary, and then in the general you prevent republicans from winning by picking the democrat because third parties are not viable in virtually every district, hence the overwhelming majority of federally elected representatives being from one of the only two viable parties. But you have to stop the fucking republicans from getting elected first. Pay fucking attention.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.

    Get out of here with this tired stuff.

    Nope. Never gonna not call that out. You vote or you blindly accept the consequences; but we don't need to accept or respect non-participation when their actions affect us.

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