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What about the idiots who chose to stay home and not vote at all. They may not have voted for it, but they weren't voting against it either, and ambivalence in the face of fascism is tacit support.
245 millions could've voted, 90 millions didnt vote, 77 millions voted for trump.
68% of people either didn't care about fascism or wanted it.
Dear americans, wtf happened. Where were you.
They were programmed through the magic of Designer Outrage™ that unless there is zero genocide happening in Palestine¹, they and everyone else should abstain from voting.
¹ Ukraine was not mentioned because they couldn’t give a shit about the atrocities committed elsewhere as long as they could disrupt the election in America.
That was a very small percentage of voters. Most Americans didn't care about Palestine and just believed Trump's promises to fix the economy.
They are every bit as responsible as Trump voters.
only the people who voted for a candidate are responsible for electing that candidate.
I and many others have tried to explain this to you people so many times that I don’t have the patience for it anymore, so I’m not going to take the bait.
But you’re wrong.
saying doesn't make it true.
Cool! And denying it doesn’t make it not true.
it's tautological that votes for a candidate are what elect the candidate.
Denying it doesn’t make it untrue.
Don't worry, you can take the path of the president you didn't vote for, yet helped elect and deny responsibility for your own actions. Like at work when they ask you if you'd rather work all weekend without pay or with pay, and you don't want to work the weekend at all so you just let everyone else decide for you. It may not be the best move, but it's the best move you can bring yourself to commit to.
I'm only responsible for my own actions, just as everyone else is responsible for theirs
True enough, and while I personally believe that anyone who has an opinion (and an opportunity to act on it to avoid a collapse of the society they participate in) and fails to act on it is acting irresponsibly, it really doesn't matter what I think, and it shouldn't matter to you. Yet if you come into a politically charged and admit to being proud to have not voted, I suspect you expected some judgement to come at you.
that didn't happen. you're making leaps of logic.
And you all fail every time because you're just wrong
Tell me, the millions of people who didn't vote in California, who did they "vote" for by being silent, given the fact the electoral votes of that state went Dem, as everyone knew would happen?
If non-voters are equally as responsible as voters (a stupid notion to begin with but let's roll) then you have to take into account where those voters were or you're obviously just looking to blame people
Did you miss the part where I said I’m not taking the bait?
If you saw someone about to get raped on your sidewalk, and you just went inside without defending them or calling 911, don’t you realized you helped FACILITATE the rape? Not voting is facilitating the other votes to matter more.
so by not voting, they made the Democrats votes worth more, too.
Correct, but you can make the “better side” votes count more than the “worse side” votes by participating. Sitting on your couch and not absolutely includes you in fault of the worse side winning, just like the rape scenario you didn’t comment on.
I am not responsible for the bad behavior of others.
no, you're just responsible for not standing against the worse side, or can you still not tell which side is worse?
you have no idea what I do.
you've made it clear what you don't do
whatever you are insinuating, you don't know anything
I’m going to explain this for you as simply as possible:
So.. Imagine a scenario where a driverless car is rolling towards a baby in a carriage. Now imagine there are 10 people, one of them being you- standing about within eyesight of the car that is heading towards the baby-
In this scenario:
The car = trump.
The baby = our democracy.
The 10 people = the only influence able to change the scenario.
Now, what ties this all together to make it more relevant is that we will now give the people standing about the choice to to push the car into the baby, do nothing, or stand in the way of the car in order to stop it.
This means that:
5 people that will push the car into the baby = Trump supporter.
1 person that will do nothing = you.
4 people that will push the car away = Harris voters.
So now… Here we have two groups of people that have no intent whatsoever to help the child in any way. One- directly and the other indirectly- and only one group that is trying to stop the car.
Those standing around watching, (you) could help stop the car- but don’t. Thereby watching the car roll over the child because not enough people helped stop it.
You made the choice to withdraw your help and thereby share in the responsibility.
we don't have a democracy and never did. your whole analogy fails to encompass the complex system of oppression used by politicians and capitalist interests.
“We?”
"our democracy" never existed
You didn’t vote to protect it, I don’t think you get to claim it. You abandoned it.
Discussion over.
the Constitution doesn't establish a democracy
you have no idea whether or how I voted
dang, thought you wouldn't notice
As a citizen, hopefully of good conscience and morals, you ARE responsible for NOT doing good when you can. We all are, no matter how many downvotes you collect by arguing against this common sense fact.
this is a stack of platitudes dressed up as a moral message.
https://durangotexas.blogspot.com/2015/11/according-to-experts-evil-wins-when.html?m=1
you don't know that the nonvoters aren't doing something, possibly something even more effective than voting. at least you seem to be acknowledging that they're likely good people, anyway.
They should at least give us a sign, that they are doing something, by now, I mean, would appreciate that, hope is needed now, more than ever, not?
given the vitriol I've seen here, I don't know why they would want to talk to Democrats at all
those damn democrats, yelling about how tmurp's going to destroy the country, then telling everyone who voted for them they voted for a guy who's destroying the country. Damn their eyes, don't they see that our symbolic gesture made us feel like we were above it, all the way until inauguration day?
that's a nice strawman you've set up. can I watch you knock it down, too?
it's arguably still a free country.
Hu? I was not talking about democrats??