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Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠 (lemmy.ml)

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[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

I am reminded of two quotes from Fear And Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72 by Hunter S. Thompson:

How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?

How low? Now, I guess we know. Voting for the lesser evil for 50 years has got you Trump. Twice. How much lower are you going to go?

I have no solutions. Things will probably have to break completely before the mending can begin.

[-] Edie@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/i-wont-vote/

Since I was twenty-one in 1889, I have in theory followed the voting plan strongly advocated by Sidney Lens in The Nation of August 4, i.e., voting for a third party even when its chances were hopeless, if the main parties were unsatisfactory; or, in absence of a third choice, voting for the lesser of two evils

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[-] faraiwe@mstdn.social 8 points 2 months ago

@Salamence 100% accurate

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

I mean, the DNC supports genocide. Trump is worse, which is really a testament to how phenomally bad he is for just about everyone on the planet. I want progressive democrats on the ballot, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm still going to vote, and I'm going to vote for the least bad option.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

voting for any non-progressive candidate perpetuates this system that's controlled by baby raping/eating/killing oligarchic billionaires.

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[-] faraiwe@mstdn.social 6 points 2 months ago

@themeatbridge yep

voting is not a marriage proposal, it's a chess move towards a better future.

I still want everyone at the DNC leadership to choke and die, soonest.

[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

chess moves implies control and voting for the lesser evil isn't a strategic move; it's just hoping that the piece you think you're forced to move does the least amount of damage.

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