I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home.

Not voting isn’t going to stop the genocide in Gaza. The US will continue to funnel them arms no matter which candidate wins this November. Trump practically campaigns on how much he hates the Jews and he’s publicly told Israel to “finish up their war”. He’ll also make life a living hell for anyone who isn’t a straight cisgender male back here at home.

A vote for a candidate is not an endorsement of them or their policies, it’s a statement that you like their policies more than the other guy’s, and “sticking it to liberals” and “refusing to support genocide” (that’s not what voting for Biden is doing, by the way – a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide and a vote for neither is an endorsement of both) is not more important than keeping the furthest right politician America has ever seen out of office.

How incredibly privileged do you have to be to see an entire national election as what will happen in the Middle East and ignore Trump’s campaign promises to wipe transgender Americans off the map, and further, to not realize that the same thing will happen in the Middle East regardless of which candidate wins?

I hate Biden as much as every other leftist here. But I’ll still vote for him because Trump is worse. If there’s a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too.

  • @brianary
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    43 months ago

    Explain and distinguish both, then. I genuinely don’t see it.

    • HACKthePRISONS
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      on the one hand there is gerrymandering which has the effect of splitting up voting blocks.

      on the other hand there is the lie that votes are owned by or owed to only two parties, and any vote outside of those two parties is stolen by the so-called third parties.

      in fact, the votes belong to voters, and it is up to them to decide who they want to vote for, and it is up to the politicians to try to win those votes.

        • HACKthePRISONS
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          33 months ago

          >I assume you haven’t seen enough elections to understand that yet.

          condescension and baseless attacks on my identity wont get me to vote for fascists

            • HACKthePRISONS
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              my identity doesn’t change the truth of anything i’ve said. it has no bearing on this conversation, but your attempt to raise it implies you are going to be attempting to use my identity rhetorically. that’s called “ad hominem”, when you attack the speaker instead of what they have said.

              • @brianary
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                43 months ago

                And you continue to employ the fallacy fallacy.

                I think asking what you personally risk from a Trump vs Biden presidency speaks to whether your insufferable self-righteousness is gambling with other people’s lives at no cost to you.

                • HACKthePRISONS
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                  23 months ago

                  >think asking what you personally risk from a Trump vs Biden presidency speaks to whether your insufferable self-righteousness is gambling with other people’s lives at no cost to you.

                  appealing to emotion doesn’t change the truth values of any of your claims, either.

                  • @brianary
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                    It’s obviously all performative nonsense at this point.

                    If moral acts were determined by intent rather than by impact, the road to hell wouldn’t be so thoroughly paved.

                    As I said earlier, good luck, I wish you well.