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Careful, if you don't vote for me, you'll lose my feckless genocidaire cabinet too (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

kind-vladimir-ilyich

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for reminding me that Neera Tanden is part of the cabinet lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

She was rejected everywhere she went, so naturally Joe fucking Biden had to give her a pity position

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

we need more of this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

So, how come so many of the Cheetos people still have jobs in this administration?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Feels like a threat

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (32 children)

But seriously: if you're not voting for Biden, does that mean you instead vote for Trump? Or do you not vote at all? What if that results in another Trump presidency? What is the argument against voting for the lesser evil? Is it a matter of principle, then?

Unless you think Trump is the superior candidate, in which case I am not really interested in talking to you.

I mean, yes, it would be better if instead of Biden they ran someone younger and more progressive. And even better would be if the ridiculous two-party system was replaced altogether. But slim as the chance of that happening with Biden is, it is surely even more unlikely for that to happen with the Republicans and Trump in power, right?

I'm not trying to convince anyone, I'm just genuinely confused as it seems I'm missing something that's perhaps obvious to you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

Let me tell you the thing that changed my mind on lesser evil voting.

It used to be, when people said "if you vote for the lesser evil you are endorsing evil" I would balk, because thats not why I was voting lesser evil right? I was voting for the differences.

Then it hit me, thats not how the candidate and party see my vote is it? No, they see my vote as a 100% endorsement of everything they are doing. Which in this case includes a genocide.

In 50 years I dont want to look children in the face asking me what I did during the Gaza genocide and say "voted for the guy committing the genocide because he was nicer".

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