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[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 months ago

If the choices are fascism or moderate fascism, maybe try offering something better than fascism?

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com -2 points 7 months ago

if my only choice is evil i will always automatically choose less evil. its really not even a choice.

if we really care about this shit, we would be pushing grass-roots ranked-choice voting to incur actual 3rd parties that matter. but we arent. so less evil it is. you can choose more evil if that makes you feel better, but you should know youre fucking everyone else over.

[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Or you can choose something else entirely and not support a genocide. Turns out, if enough people do this, there's even a small chance they might win. There's even a chance that if they don't win that this will push or even terrorize one of the major parties into moving to your position. But perhaps your conscience allows you to support a genocide. I certainly don't have the stomach for that though.

Edit: A word

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago

Who are you suggesting to vote for in the US presidential race that doesn't support Israel?

[-] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Party for socialism and liberation.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago

Check out Jill Stein and Cornel West.

[-] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

you know if no one voted it would be harder than it already is to claim a ligitimate democracy

[-] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one 0 points 7 months ago

They haven't thought that far ahead.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

i live in the US where my choice is evil or more evil.

youre telling me to choose more evil

choosing more evil at home might make you feel better about foreign policy, you are voting against your own ability to make this choice in the future. you are making your home life worse thinking you are helping people abroad, but in the long run you are not only helping evil at home, you are not going to help those abroad as the US is more than the president. it is silly to pretend trump will do anything but help russia and israel.

again, you only have 2 choices evil or more evil. pick one.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago
[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

The immortal words of Comrade Aaron Bushnell

[-] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

that is a false dilema, you also have, writting "Fuck Off I want someone better" on the ballot in that spot. Does it count as a vote... no... is it evil, no in the choice I gave you you did not chose evil at all.

[-] yeather@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You have a secret, third choice, not seen successfully on a US president since Kennedy.

[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Does the US not permit Write-In candidates or third parties? Crazy, I could have sworn they did. A miniscule, even infinitesimal chance of winning by voting for a not evil candidate sounds more morally palatable to me than voting for a war criminal. You do you though, I'm quite certain your conscience can handle it.

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

yes and no. depends on the state, but reality dictates in our current system and with the current candidates every vote for 3rd party will be a tacit vote for trump.

dont vote? thats a vote for trump. vote for a 3rd party? thats a vote for trump.

until we have an actual system that supports 3rd parties we have no choice. because the vote for trump/republicans leads to a system with less parties than 2, not more.

my conscience says i want more parties. my conscience says 'vote less evil not more'.

[-] CooperRedArmyDog@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

no they are not "votes for trump" are they votes biden is not getting yes, however the only way they are "Votes for trump" is if you are starting with the assumption that Biden either already has or inharently deserves the votes. He does not, he does not have my vote and not giving it to him is taking a vote from him. he has to earn it, and he has not

[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Amazing! All those votes that came in for Trump and they could have just voted 3rd party instead to get the same result! Why does anyone even bother voting for Trump? They could just vote for the person with the shortest name that isn't Biden!

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

Actually if the US became a single party state for a term because there is no difference between the established parties, assuming first past the post is still in place, a 2nd party would be forced into electoral relevancy, so that would actually be the preferred outcome of not voting for the current two parties.

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

Third party votes being for Trump is only correct if you assume libertarian votes are for Biden.

[-] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one -3 points 7 months ago

Turns out, if enough people do this, there's even a small chance they might win.

Do you have an examples you'd like to cite of this happening in the context of a US presidential election?

[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

Nope, just the ability to perform elementary arithmetic.

[-] ShortBoweledClown@lemmy.one -1 points 7 months ago

Oh so, what's the arithmetic for how many times this has happened?

0 + 0 = 0

Coincidentally, that's also the likelihood of this happening.

[-] gitgud@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Well thank god such a renowned statistician has taken an interest in this subject.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You're already in here pretending to be a renowned electoral scholar. I say thier math adds up better than yours.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

This is what lesser of two evils politics gets you: enthusiastic support of a genocide.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago

The country I was born in is full of collaborators; and I promise, if anyone ever comes along asking me to sell them out for citizenship elsewhere I'll do it in a New York minute

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 7 months ago
[-] ReallyKinda@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago

I have a beetle and a spider in front of me. Which one should I squish? It’s all on you!!!

[-] Thevenin@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Tangential: ranked choice voting seems to be gaining momentum in progressive states. Definitely keep pushing for that, too.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

This is the same logic as those people who argue that bombing Japan actually saved lives, because an invasion would've resulted in more deaths. You've been brainwashed. Full stop.

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