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[-] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 5 days ago

Wanting the lesser of two evils on one issue to win is not the same as co-signing an entire party’s agenda.

I genuinely don’t understand how participation in democracy became conditional on 100% agreement on every issue. If you want a party to agree with you 100%, start a local party and run for local office in a non-presidential election.

Voting is supposed to be a civic duty, not a popularity vote and certainly not a purity test. Pull the lever and let the train hit one person instead of fucking everyone and everything. It’s not an intellectual exercise right now.

What is President Trump II / President Vance going to do about climate change? Women’s health? Concentration camps for immigrants? Future elections? Just please be reasonable and realistic.

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

If we can't agree 100% on genocide being bad then they've lost the plot. And speaking of purity tests the dems are smearing people in congress criticising this as anti semites. Cori bush was fucked over due to this. Saying not voting is a vote for trump isn't a purity test? Plenty criticising the US empire being branded as a Russian bot isn't a purity test? Jill stein being called a russian asset isn't a purity test? Lets ignore that the issue you've said is a purity test is an ethnic cleansing coming on the back of a brutal apartheid where not even the bare minimum was done. What is done is the US cutting funding on the UNRWA that was for desperately needed food and covering up obstruction of food transport by the admin. It aint just Gaza btw but this is an example of whats wrong with this admin

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