• disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    As I wrote in a thread further down, discouraging people from voting is unethical disengagement. Trump’s base will vote for him even if he’s convicted of all 88 criminal charges, so your argument is falling on the ears of his opponents.

    My point above is that the voting options are bad or worse for Palestinians. Worse also comes with harm to Ukrainians, Taiwanese, and Americans.

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      And Biden’s base will vote for him regardless of the number of dead innocent men, women, and children killed with US funding and weapons, so that should cancel out any support from Trump’s base.

      Don’t speak about ethics while demanding that we support slaughter.

      There’s no “bad or worse” here. If you vote for Biden or Trump, you’re voting to make things worse for everyone.

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          Meaning as long as shitty Republicans are around, the Democratic party can count on your vote, right?

          Do you not see how that gives them zero incentive to rock the boat or make any of the drastic changes that are sorely needed?

          Do you think one day the Republican party is just going to evaporate leaving the Democrats to ‘finally’ start doing all that stuff they’ve been promising us in order to get elected?

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            I absolutely see the problem. That doesn’t mean I’m stupid or arrogant enough to sit out and make things worse.