• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I’m voting Democrat down ticket. I’m just not voting for genocide Joe.

    That’s the only way I can exert any pressure on him, and I don’t have to wait a year for that pressure to manifest. If enough Democrats had the courage to stand up to Biden he’d be forced to change his policies. Instead, you are all choosing to be complicit in genocide.

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      10 months ago

      Not voting is a valid choice, one that says you’re okay with either candidate winning. And that is being complicit with genocide. If you’re not okay with that, vote.

      If you don’t want to wait a year, you can call, write, protest, and donate to groups to do those things on your behalf. But to throw away your vote is incredibly short-sighted.

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        I’m voting for Democrats down ticket, hardly throwing it away. I’m just not voting for any pro-genocide candidates.

        And if Biden is smart, he’ll see how much support he’s losing and change his policy towards Israel.

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          Biden is an empty suit. If the party tells him to change, he’ll change.

          Alternatively, Trump wins and everything gets even shittier, and we lose even the possibility for things to get better.

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            And the Party would tell him to change if the Party knew they’d lose the presidency.

            Do you think the Party would rather Trump win than stop supporting Israel? I doubt that.

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              They know they’re not going to lose on this issue, though, because anyone who seriously evaluates the election has come to the same conclusion that I already said: a Trump victory is the worst outcome. Again, you’ll have to put pressure on the party through other means, just one of which is electing more leftist downballot candidates.

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                They know they’re not going to lose on this issue, though, because anyone who seriously evaluates the election has come to the same conclusion that I already said: a Trump victory is the worst outcome.

                Okay, so my vote is irrelevant, got it. I’ve asked elsewhere and I’ll ask it here: why are you crawling up my dick about it? If my presidential vote doesn’t matter because “they’re not going to lose on this issue” then I can comfortably just leave that spot blank.

                Again, you’ll have to put pressure on the party through other means, just one of which is electing more leftist downballot candidates.

                Which I’m doing.

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                  Exactly these people talk out of both sides of their mouths. On the one hand we don’t matter, on the other we’re responsible for HRC losing in 2016. It’s so fucking pathetic.

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              10 months ago

              I don’t understand why people think the democrats losing to someone farther right would make them move left. Doesn’t it make more sense they’d move to the right since that’s what more voters wanted?

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                  10 months ago

                  That’s not what I said. Moderate dems need to lose to progressives and not to conservatives to move the party left.

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                    It’ll never happen. Too many primary voters are specifically out to fuck over leftist and progressives. Then they turn around and cry foul when we refuse to show up in the general. Fuck them.

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            10 months ago

            I like how you found yourself being down voted the moment you acknowledged what a piss poor excuse for “Democracy” this is.

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              Yup. But in the choice of who to vote for president, there’s the establishment candidate, or the “dictator for a day” candidate. Or there’s not voting, which is saying “yes, either of those are okay”. One of those things has the chance of making progress, and it should be obvious.

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                  Insulin prices are lower now, a bunch of student loans are being forgiven. I know it’s not the single payer collectivism we’d all like but to say it’s not progress at all is a bit hyperbolic.

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                    If we’ve progressed over the last 20 years then what are you panicking about? You can’t tell me we’ve made progress while also telling me our Democracy is less secure than it was 20 years ago.