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Vote for Republicans = You're an evil Nazi
Vote for Democrats = You're an evil liberal, and liberals are just veiled fascist
Vote for third party = You're wasting your vote, you're probably just a foreign asset
Vote for progressives = You support neoliberalism that masquerades as milquetoast socialism
Don't vote at all = You're a privileged asshole who caused all these issues by not voting
It literally doesn't matter what you do or who you vote for, you simply can't win with these people. There's no appeasing them, they will forever complain about how you vote.
Ever since the 21st century, voting Democrat (voting against Republicans) has been compulsory to stop the degradation of our institutions to corruption and towards autocratic rule.
But a lot of people didn't get the memo.
And to be fair a lot of Democrat candidates didn't offer anything themselves, but to not be the destructive Republican guy.
The memo part has a lot to do with the massive far-right propaganda machine that is literally controlling minds (just not instantly or with a wavy beam)
The latter part has to do with the mass precarity that neoliberalism allows to persist. If you're going to be in danger under King Log, why not vote for King Heron. And this is an issue across many nations with principle parties being neoliberal and far-right.
You forgot someone on your list. You. How would you describe yourself, I wonder? I know how I would.
Let me guess, am I nazi too?
No, you are a propagandist, trying to spread apathy amongst voters who could make a difference. You aren't trying to get fewer people to vote for the Republican fascists, your goal is to spread apathy between the people who might vote against them.
I see my point is being proven already
Your point is amplifying troll messaging and rolling over to defeatism. It's about as weak as discourse gets.
Your "proof" is that there isn't a position that will win approval with everyone?
As a US citizen, yes my country sucks. It has sucked before and it's sucking just about as hard as it has since the trail of tears. I am embarrassed by my nation's leaders abetting genocide, defunding aid programs, putting people who live here in prison for the crime of existing, refusing to tax the rich or corporations, etc etc.
But there are a shit ton of us that aren't like that. We have a totally fucked election system, a flawed and vague constitution, and fascists in every branch of government.
It's really not all of us, I swear, and not by a long shot.
It's literally what you are doing, and the best you can counter with is with pre-school sandbox logic?
Because the only imaginable positive outcome is appeasing everyone of course.
How about trying to minimize harm to as many people as possible?
That's stupid, of course it isn't. But the whole point of posts like this one is try to shame people for voting or not voting. These are the types of people who expect appeasement. MAGA isn't the only thing our political landscape that wants appeasement. Either way, this type of thing never works. People like OP will never be pleased no matter what. People don't vote to appease others nor should they. Everybody wants to minimize harm, but what that means is something that's entirely subjective.
It's not subjective. That's an obvious lie. Everyone is being harmed more under Trump than they would be under Harris.
Tf? I am Arab