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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Correct. If you didn't vote then you are spineless, a coward and lack any morals. You saw fascism coming and ignored what everyone said and then decided that it wasn't worth the bare minimum effort of voting.

If you did not cast a ballot and you were eligible to do so then the things I want to say to you would get me banned from lemmy and probably arrested.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Correct. If you didn’t vote then you are spineless, a coward and lack any morals.

Not correct, if you didn't vote you didn't vote period.

People saying and persuading others to vote for murderers with blood on their hands are much bigger spineless coward with no morals.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Inaction is still a choice, so not voting means you're ok with this. Voting or not voting, you still made your choice in November and here we are.

People saying and persuading others to vote for murderers with blood on their hands are much bigger spineless coward with no morals.

That's the most bullshit argument to justify your shitty choices and is textbook DARVO. Not voting for the lesser murderer means we get an even bigger one who will actively increase the suffering, and it's hilarious to me how you're trying to pretend that voting to prevent more genocide is cowardly. But cowards love to pretend they're not cowards and blame others when they don't have the stones to make hard decisions. And lol, using morality to justify letting trump genocide people home and abroad shows you have none.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Inaction is still a choice, so not voting means you’re ok with this. Voting or not voting, you still made your choice in November and here we are.

The choice not to support a rigged as fuck system that needs to go for the sake of humanity. You are not supposed to vote for any murderer of any scale under any circumstances. When the choice is between two murderers it's time for plan B

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was plan B sitting on your hands?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Plan B is not support the government

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So somewhere between doing absolutely nothing to armed revolution. How enlightening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Anything you do that is not supporting the government is better than supporting it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

That's still a choice though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You sound like one of the idiots my grandfather tried to warn in Germany in the 1920s before he got the fuck out and came to America on forged papers on a Japanese fishing boat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And you sound like an idiot using a poor comparison to defend scum as bad as the nazis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So lemme get this straight. The Democrats are the Nazis here, not the people literally throwing up a seig heil?

You really have no say in this conversation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Globke

Most governments around the world are ruled by villains consumed by greed and lust of power. If you support and fuel a genocide you are bad on pairs as nazi regardless of your country or political agenda. The government of israel by definition can't be nazi but they are committing crimes as the nazi were.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

As said, you have no say in this conversation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nope. It is dead correct. If you were eligible to vote and you did not vote then you should feel horrible. You should feel attacked. You should feel like everyone hates you. They do. You decided that fascism wasn't important enough to vote against. You decided to go "Well both sides suck" when one side was actively planning genocide and destruction of the United States.

You do not get to have a say. Why? Because you didn't vote. You decided not to use your voice so guess what? You don't get to have one here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can try to blame people who didn't vote the red and blue party as much as you want but they are not going to feel horrible because they didn't support any murderer. You seem to be projecting a lot of resentment perhaps deep down you don't feel happy about your choice?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

See previous comment.

You don't vote? You don't get to have a say in the conversation. You have willingly silenced yourself for the next 4 years. So sad for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean my vote hasn't mattered in the last 2 elections. My state hasnt flipped blue since Obama. There's a lot of situations where voting is a waste of time. Making that not be true is what's going to increase voter turnout, not trying to shame them for something they're not responsible for

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

And if everyone in your state who thought that actually decided to vote then it might have actually made an impact.

See previous message.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

K. That doesn't explain your nonsense about "If you didn't vote then you voted".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It literally does. Your reading comprehension skills are not my problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not my reading comprehension that's at issue here, it's your abilities with basic logic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ratio says otherwise. You are getting hammered with downvotes because you can't grasp the simple concept that I put forward.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ooh, "I'm popular so I'm right". Yep, you have a major problem with logic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Man, you have just actively avoided logic at every possible opportunity here. You're just burying your head in the sand and screaming that everyone else is wrong. The downvotes isn't because i'm popular, it is because you have no idea what you're talking about. Have fun with that, I'm done wasting time on you. There's no point in having a conversation with you if you're just going to divorce yourself from reality like a Trump or Pollievre voter.

Have fun with the bed you made. You aren't worth a single second more of my time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I avoided logic? Aren't you the person who claimed "if you didn't vote then you voted"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

See previous comments. Once again, your reading comprehension skills aren't my problem. If you can't understand, then just go away. In either case? I'm not wasting anymore time on you. Either you are incapable of grasping an extremely simple concept that everyone else has grasped or you're just a troll. At any rate, you have a negative value in my life and aren't even remotely worth the effort. Nothing can be gained when you are acting this way. You will never add anything of value. You have no worth in this conversation when you cannot follow along and I do not have the time, patience, or crayons to explain it to you.