I don’t care. I’m not voting for anyone who supports genocide. I have to be able to live with myself.

And if I end up in death camp (because, by the way, I’m gay), that would be better than knowing I supported a genocide.

Is democracy when you feel you have to vote for whoever the DNC tells you to vote for, even when you don’t like them and they’re funding a genocide?

Who names their kid “Chase”?

Is he a dog?

Oh, nevermind, I see everyone already made that joke.

jaded and entitled children that think our every want and need will be addressed

Yes, how spoilt we are to not want checks notes genocide.

And I would like everyone in America to consider the material outcomes (genocide, environmental collapse, corporate oligarchy) of voting for the Democrats instead of voting for the Greens.

You know exactly what I mean when I say the “PM seat”.

No, I have no clue.

In theory, a major party and a minor party can form a coalition, and the leader of the minor party becomes Deputy PM.

I don’t think it’s ever happened at the federal level in Canada, though.

It’s a pitty Bibi didn’t hang himself while jumping off a railing.

You’re also comparing house of commons seats to PM seats, which is a bad comparison because of the scale and difference in location of said elections. A FPTP election in a locality will inherently have easier competition than a national level FPTP election.

There’s no such thing as a “PM seat”. The Prime Minister occupies a seat in the House of Commons like any other, for which he must win the election in his local riding. Justin Trudeau is the member for Papineau, a neighbourhood in north Montreal.

The Governor General (representative of the King) then invites one member of parliament to form government as Prime Minister, for which the other members of the parliament must give a vote of confidence. By convention, that person is the leader of the party that wins the most seats in the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister of Canada is not directly elected in Canada. There is no nation-wide FPTP election for PM.

Setting aside November for a moment, shouldn’t we be having a discussion about whether Biden is fit to be president right now? It can’t be good for all of the nation’s enemies to know the US of A has an addled president, can it?

He should be stepping aside and letting Kamala take over.

Let Democrats see how President Harris fares for a couple months before the Democrat convention has to decide in August whether to run a different candidate or stick with Harris.

That way, if they do decide to run with Harris, she’ll be entering the election as an incumbent.

ignore the hundreds of thousands of people who are going to die in various horrible ways because of your inaction, at least you didn’t have to make a choice.

Tens of thousands of men, women, and children are dying right now, and your guy is supporting it.

And I am making a choice. I’m choosing third-party.

Because you’re a citizen. That’s what being a citizen means.

As a citizen, I am working on building support for third-party candidates who are outside of the Democrat-Republican Duopoly (which is really just a Monopoly).

I don’t care if it’s realistic. It’s the only option I see. I’m not supporting a genocide.

Relevant pic: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/11rrvt/be_this_guy/

why don’t you outline a realistic plan that leads to neither Biden nor Trump being elected

The Democrats replace Biden with a better candidate, like Gretchen Whitman.

(Not Gavin Newsom. He’s just as pro-Israel as Biden.)

and how you plan to achieve that

Why is that my job?

It’s astounding that you manage to miss the entire point of a trolley problem.

Internet memes about the trolley problem actually fail to present it completely. After the ponderer decides that killing one person is better than killing five people, they are then asked if it’s okay to push a bystander off a bridge onto the train tracks if that would derail the train and prevent it killing five people.

To me, the ultimate lesson of the trolley problem is that morality is not a matter of trading fewer lives for more lives. That’s why I’m not listening to your “Biden probably means fewer deaths than Trump” argument. Voting for either of them violates my sense of morality.

I’d rather work on dismantling the tracks, even if it might take a while.

You’re trying to make this a false dichotomy. That’s a form of logical fallacy, and it’s manipulative.

It’s like those trolley problems about “do you throw the switch or not”? The thing I would do is try to fix the brakes. And if people on the track die, that is the fault of whoever tied them to the track, not me.

I’m not supporting either Trump or Biden, and neither should you.

You’re trying to say Trump is worse than Biden, and though I disagree with some of your points, it also doesn’t matter because I am not choosing either of them. I’m trying to fix the brakes.

See, what’s happening here is that you’re viewing my behaviour as deviant, because in the US, voting for one of the two main parties is a social norm. But there’s no need for it to be a social norm.

US politics will not get better until people choose better options. The Democrats and the Republicans have no incentive to be better until people are willing to vote for other parties.

It’s time for that social norm to go.

Blaming, say, Green party voters for a Trump victory “because they should have voted Democrat” makes just as much sense as me blaming Democrat voters for a Trump victory “because they should have voted Green party”.

The truth is, none of us are obligated to vote for anyone except the candidate our heart feels is best.

Oh, I do think Trump is a fascist. (And Biden is supporting a fascist in Israel, so what’s the difference?)

I meant that the bit about death camps was scaremongering.

Trump says murderers and rapists will pour across the border. You say Trump will bring in death camps. Aren’t you sick of all the scaremongering?

And even if death camps are a possibility, you’re asking me to weigh the possibility of death camps against a very real genocide that is happening right now.

And, I’m sorry, but it is not even close. You still have more power than any Palestinian has. You have not been bombed by your government. Your borders have not been closed. You can flee to Canada if you need to. The Palestinians can’t.

Your scaremongering hypotheticals are not going to distract me from the actual genocide I can see unfolding in front of us.

Is this the Democrats’ strategy? Acting entitled, as if they’re owed votes, and any voter who wants better is a traitor?

Good luck with that strategy.

No, you’re trying to make me responsible for other people’s actions, and that is fucked up.

If Trump wins, that is the fault of the people who voted for Trump.

If you want to use mental gymnastics to blame it on other people, why not say it’s Biden’s fault for supporting genocide.

That is some twisted mental gymnastics.

American munitions are being used to rip apart Gazan children as we speak. Biden supports it. Trump supports it.

People who vote for Biden are supporting it. People who vote for Trump are supporting it.

The only ones who aren’t supporting it are the people voting third-party.