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[-] LazyPhilosopher@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

When Martin Luther King Jr said the white moderate was the biggest stumbling block of progressive politics he meant shit like this That favors order over Justice.

When it said that you cut a liberal in a fascist bleeds they mean you.

I'm an American that lives in a very blue state. I will be voting third party this election because my state and my vote will end up going to the blue team anyway. What I know is that if a third party gets 5% of the vote they get funding in the next round. I don't know about all you guys, but I am tired of constantly picking the lesser evil and having every election I participate in be the most important election of our lifetime (so far

But sure Just say I'm a Russian bot. I'm sure that won't distance people even further away from your politics.

[-] kinther@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Donate and campaign for your local ranked choice voting groups https://fairvote.org/ - if you aren't engaged in changing the system, you should be.

Until we have change like this, I'm still voting for the person who sucks the least, because I know only one of the two mainstream candidates will win.

[-] violetraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

That's because you have the privilege of living in a blue state and our votes going towards an electoral college rather than popular vote in most cases. I voted Green Party before seeing her in the Russian op photo. National doesn't matter as much as local votes do

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Are you voting for Bobby Jr, Cornel or Jill?

Because Bobby's the only one who might get 5%. Would that be saying you are okay with his policies?

What are you going to do in the next election cycle to make sure the nominees align closer to your values?

[-] Anomaline@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago

...you realize MLK was talking about people like you that would rather throw your hands up and do nothing than help, right?

If Trump wins, minorities and LGBT folks are in danger. That's on you. In the same way that white moderates are critiqued for sitting around and doing nothing in the civil rights era, people who are sitting around and doing nothing against the rise of fascism in that way because they don't want to take the time to focus on who's in danger are to blame. You are the modern white moderate.

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