119
lets stop thinking guys
(feddit.nl)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
119 points (83.6% liked)
Political Memes
11687 readers
353 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
1) Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
2) No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
3) Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
4) No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
5) No AI generated content.
Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Again genocide isn't a small thing, Harris also was very questionable on trans issues and extremely pro imperialism and cop.
Well it's good that we went with the low IQ felon rapist pedophile fraud who threatens to wipe civilizations off the face of the Earth and robs us blind.
Man, we almost ended up with an imperfect highly educated black woman with no criminal indictments instead. Can you imagine?
And you use low IQ as an insult I see what kind of person you are.
You understand not voting beat both options right? It wasn't a race between Kamala and Trump because they have isolated entrenched voter bases.
It was that a corpo cop who would keep the genocide on simmer and was anointed cantidate didn't inspire many.
She lost to the couch.
When the fight is between the right and the far right, you don't let the far right win even if it's not inspiring.
Voting is a practical, political act, not a moral one. Anyone that tells you different is tricking you.
Why are act utilitarians so insufferably smug?
So, you've got zero problem with Trump voters on moral grounds, correct?
How could one possibly twist themselves into believing that a political act can somehow exist outside the realm of ethics and morality? Politics is ethics. Ethics are political. Why are you you trying to decouple these? Oh wait.... its because yall will do whatever mental gymnastics are needed to justify voting for a genocidal, former cop.
In America's general election you get two choices for president, the bad choice and the worse choice. That's the undisputable reality. As South Park once elegantly put it, choose between the giant douche and the turd sandwich. Now, often times which candidate is which is a matter of perspective, but sometimes it's pretty clear to see who the worse choice is.
For instance, so many people got on a high horse against Kamala for supporting Israel, and they weren't wholly wrong, but her opponent was very well known for being an admirer of Netanyahu and never took a stance against the genocide either. So considering both parties seemed likely to let Israel keep on keeping on it was a very strange thing to get hung up on electorally; there was little to no chance that we'd have an election outcome would have ended well for Palestine regardless, and having lived through Trump's first term and his attempted coup there was plenty of evidence to suggest that he would be the worse choice.
Now, many people used the argument that politics and ethics are completely inseparable, saw that both candidates would be bad for Palestine, then refused to vote on moral grounds, thereby doing their part in condemning America to its current circumstances of grappling with human rights crises at home. Thousands brutalized by ICE and CBP, shipped to torture centers for crimes the didn't commit (e.g. El Salvador) children separated from parents (again) and effectively orphaned (again)... Much of this very much predictable given his first term. I'm not seeing this supposed moral high ground.
The act of voting is indeed a political act, and not a moral one. One's politics and ethics may intertwine, but at the end of the day you only get two choices and chances are that in order to avoid the greater evil you need to ensure the lesser evil prevails. It shouldn't work this way but sadly it does.
Genocidal former cop.
Felon rapist pedophile fraud who threatens to wipe civilizations from the face of the Earth while robbing us blind and destroying all our alliances.
Man. That's a tough fucking decision.
almost like any other option is better
lol, america is so fucked
If you have to vote for someone who supports genocide you’re already fucked.
You're right. America is fucked, but speeding up it's descent into fascism is bad praxis
Sure, but if you care about slowing the America’s descent into fascism, voting should not be your primary focus.
What does that mean, exactly?
Genocide is by far one of the worst crimes against humanity. If someone supports genocide they are morally corrupt to the core. They don’t care if you live or die. They will sell you out the moment it gives them a personal advantage. What kind of democracy forces it’s citizens to choose between two such people?
Americans generally don’t support genocide nor do they want a leader who would treat them like chess pieces. Unfortunately, the American electoral system is incapable of reflecting popular sentiment. If it can’t do that, then it’s not a real democracy. Change can only come to the US if people learn to wield their collective power in ways that don’t depend on the elections. Barring that, Americans are fucked regardless of who they vote for.
And what about gay, queer, or trans people? Have they not died enough? Because there absolutely is a difference between the parties for them.
Why, if the majority of Americans are against genocide, does democratic leadership support genocide? If they don’t think Palestinian lives matter why would they think gay, queer, and trans lives matter either? Vote for democrats all you want. I don’t care. Just don’t be so self righteous to think your vote meaningfully protects marginalized people.
Well at least we ended up with the felon rapist pedophile fraud who threatens to wipe civilizations from the face of the Earth while robbing us blind instead of the flawed but highly educated black woman with no criminal record.
We really dodged a bullet, right?
Again, and this is painful to repeat so often:
I agree with your point, but you must agree there was absolutely no feasible outcome of this last voting process that had any advertised improvement for gaza from America -- but there was at least hope in the candidate those losers didn't vote for.
Some voters vote for the future. Some for accountability for past actions. You don't get to tell people the right way to vote.
In many ways, you're advocating an inferior strategy. Politicians lie all the time, and their campaign promises are mostly wishful thinking. But holding a party accountable for their past actions actually has real data to go off of.
Except electorilism isn't a useful never mind the only method for changing society, as well as other options even for voting and anti-genocide should be basic. Never mind Harris isn't "vastly different" she promised the most lethal military, cracked down hard on sex workers, promised to be extremely tough on the border, as AG discriminated against imprisoned trans people, promised to increase police budgets and I could keep going.
So you're saying you don't grasp that it was either Harris or Trump and that there really is no argument for which one is worse?
Because that's what the person you're responding to is saying and you don't appear to grasp it. Despite being a pretty simple concept.
Seems like you can't grasp that they have refuted the other comment's point. They grasped the point just fine and then dismantled it.
It's always the same with common sense posts like yours on Lemmy. You get more upvotes than downvotes, which is good. But the number of downvotes is alarming and not a great sign for America's future.
This country has a SERIOUS problem with common sense and accepting reality.