claim 1: “voting doesn’t change anything”
Never forget the recent case of Kris Mayes, who refuses to uphold the Arizona supreme court’s sweeping ban of abortion.
Kris Mayes only won her 2022 election by 280 votes. Voting changes things.
claim 2: “but genocide joe”
Yep. Hold that fucker’s feet to the fire. He has blood on his hands
But trump has promised to be indisputably worse. I won’t tell you how to vote. I just encourage you to vote. You’re not radical for ditching the only miniscule right the state has granted you to do some small aid for your neighbors.
Not voting and abstaining from voting, while similar, are not the same thing.
Watching football and ignoring politics is not voting.
Rejecting both genocidal fascist candidates and abstaining is different.
Not voting means you don't care and are okay with whomever wins. Sometimes you have to make hard decisions and compromise for the best possible outcomes. It's way easier to virtue signal and not actually do anything though.
No, in this specific case, its that I don't support genocide or fascism.
If you are cool supporting genocide and fascism, you are a horrible person, but I cant stop you.