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Pardon me for not finding “vulnerable people need to die for my ideology” very convincing.
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“I’ll be a dictator in day one” and “they’re poisoning our blood” seems a little more fascist to me.
Yes it is. Boolean ultimatums and ultra-idealism will always fail to make progress. Conflating Biden and Trump isn’t just dumb, it’s dangerous. It’s like having to choose between a paper cut and nuclear fallout and saying “both hurt so they’re the same; I refuse to choose either because I don’t like pain.” Well no shit Sherlock, nobody likes pain. But if you have to choose, do it, otherwise you risk others choosing nuclear fallout on your behalf. Suck it up and take the paper cut.
I got a little curious and started looking over your user.
Overall, I call bullshit
I found all that on the first page 🙂
You’re off the deep, buddy. I don’t know who you’re accusing of all these things, but none of that is me. Remember to take your meds, I do.
I sure hope you're a cishet white man, because otherwise this attitude is going to make your life worse when Trump wins and makes your life worse
Let's say this is accurate. Forget the actual good things he's done which others have pointed out already, let's say he's literally going to do nothing good, and the only thing he has on Trump is that he's not as bad.
It's still a moral imperative to vote for him. You have a choice between some people suffering, and more people suffering. Choosing to let more people suffer so that you can pretend you had nothing to do with it makes you partially culpable. It's like the trolley problem, but the choice is between 1 person or that 1 person and 5 more. The only thing you can do is pull the lever and make the trolley miss the 5 people, and you're complaining that one person will still die, so you'd rather see all 6 dead than participate the system and save anyone.
You can pretend that it's a way of protesting all you want, you can pretend that maybe it'll signal that the system needs to change, but not engaging with the system out of protest is visually identical to not engaging with the system because you don't care at all. Vote in primaries, spend the other 1,460 days between elections protesting all you want, but on election day, you have exactly two choices: some people die, or those same people and more die. Choosing not to vote is only telling the powers that be that you don't care which one happens.
I've posted a short bulleted list of pretty big ones before
You don't have to vote for Biden. In the primaries, vote for whoever you actually like. In the general, vote for the Democrats' candidate (however flawed they may be). In neither case are you obligated to frame it as voting for Biden as an individual.