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I don't get this meme.
Do both, vote for the lesser evil and demand change by protesting. Those are not mutually exclusive concepts. You are definitely not going to get change by not voting, all you are doing is allowing the more evil to win and prevent you from protesting ever again.
well it's don't just vote for the lesser of two evils...
but i don't remember anyone saying biden was the only thing needed to stop the arming of israel...
I said that.
Biden can solely stop the arming of israel by declaring they are committing human rights violations which would prevent arms exports.
Do you honestly think people haven’t noticed that your entire account is nothing but anti-Biden rhetoric?
You might want to pepper your comments with some authentic sounding *bOtH siDeS” rhetoric if you really want to sound believable.
Who is the current president right now, Donald Trump?
Is Donald Trump going to stop Joe Biden being complicit in Genocide?
And what you're saying is not even true I have plenty criticized Republicans.
I’m pretty sure anyone can see what I’m saying for themselves. But whatever you want to thing.
It’s still a free country.
Yes people that can see that Biden is the one complicit in Genocide.
It's like DNC voters have turned into the 2016 MAGA cult, purely voting for Biden no matter what he does.
Biden is supposed to not be the Fascist Genocide guy.
That guy is probably a bot
I got a bunch of these tagged as Russian Shills. They love it when i point that out 🥰
Far left rhetoric and right-wing propaganda is almost indistinguishable.
From an establishment, pro-corporate view, I can see how populist rhetoric on both sides sounds similar. Scratch beyond the surface, and it becomes plain to see why right wing populists are given carte-blanche, and leftists are given the silent treatment.
It’s like far-left anti-voters have turned into the 2016 and 2020 Russian disinformation bots, purely intending on disrupting democracy America.
It's like liberals have turned into 2016 Trump supporters willing to vote for their God Emperor no matter what he does.
Naaah, it’s more like ACTUAL Americans doing what it takes to save democracy even while a bunch of seemingly ignorant and petulant children are working hard to make it as difficult as possible.
You kind of just…. Did- yourself here.
And- It’s amazing how on a far-left leaning platform, you all still manage to have unpopular opinions. I’ll tell ya….
It’s refreshing to finally see people calling you all out for what you seem to be. There’s hope for lemmy yet!
What part of right-wing propaganda are you having trouble understanding?
There are two arguments I personally find persuasive. First, are you okay with having voted for a candidate that knowingly supported a genocide with words and with weapons (because it looks more and more like this is / will be the case). Second, what other leverage do you have over the Democratic party. Let them know that they can not win with such a historically shitty candidate, lick your wounds and try again next election.
And if you think Trump is literally Hitler, please do some research and look up what happened after Germany voted for the lesser of two evils (Hindenburg).
I am NOT ok with Biden. I'm going to vote for him anyway, because in the next term he will be less bad for Gaza than Trump would be. Even taking into account Biden's current genocide.
Voting is but one of many political actions you can take, and is therefore better considered as a small part of a larger political strategy. The best strategy for a leftist in this election is to vote uncommitted in the primaries and for Biden in the general - to send a message to the Dems while also staving off a more rapid decline to neofascism - while spending most of your time and energy engaging in direct action (i.e. protests).
If I were in Germany in 1932 I would probably have voted for Ernst Thälmann, but the German electoral system is not the US electoral system. We have no 3rd option, and that is not something that can be addressed either by voting or abstaining. To address this will require direct action.
you are a shelter of sanity in a sea of cultists.
Well that is kinda what the post is about. You can do both, the meme says don't JUST vote.
No one really gets it. Just like most of the far left’s ideology- it doesn’t really make any sense unless you suspend reality and replace it with the one they created for themselves.
The far-left absolutely makes sense, without suspending reality. You must be thinking of the right wing.
And that's why I wont vote lmao.
You misspelled "that's why I'm giving my vote to trump" ( that's what not voting does)
"Either you're with us or with fascism", they say, every 5 fucking years.
Nah, he’s not voting for Trump which is the same as voting for Biden
That is specifically why people bang on about this. It's counterintuitive but it's literally not like you put it.
Whichever side you want, not participating in voting gives you the best chances of ending up with the person you want the least to be in office. It's not a biden or trump thing. This is why voting matters.
Actually not voting is a vote for Biden, because I was going to vote Uncommitted, which I've been told was a vote for Trump
You don't get it because you thought about it. This account seems to a mis/disinformation account. Remember to call out and report these accounts.