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Question 1: What is your SSN?

Haha I tricked you. My dad works for Lemmy and traced your IP address- the police are on their way now

Stop talking to me or I will call the police

I didn't mean it, pls respond

Was 2024 the first time you voted 3rd party or protested the D-R binary?

In 2020, I intended to vote for Hawkins, and then within an hour of voting, I was temporarily convinced of the utilitarian perspective, and I regretted it the last four years

At what point in time did you decide you were going to protest/third party vote (and if there was a “trigger moment,” that would be enlightening)?

I don't remember a specific first time, but regularly throughout Biden's presidency. I said to myself, "I can't believe I fucking voted for that guy- I'm not voting for these people again"

How long has Gaza/apartheid Israel been in, say, your top three concerns when voting (decades, years, months…)?

Since it became clear that the US was enabling a genocide, in late 2023

Stop talking to me or I will call the police

I've been trying to answer this all day, and struggling to do so. I think it's because I use living in a deep red state to excuse my decision so that people aren't allowed to be as mad at me. But I'd also like to think that I'm principled enough to have made the same decision in a swing state, even though that's not the answer that people want to hear.

My hope was that by outspokenly refusing to vote for Harris unless she pledged to withhold weapons from Israel, if enough people did so, she might actually adopt that stance to earn our vote. Proceeding to then vote for her anyway, despite consistently implying she wouldn't do anything different than Biden, would have felt... idk the right word- hypocritical?

I get shat on for putting principles above practicality but, if everyone did that, we might live in a much better world. Though I've heard pragmatists say the exact opposite about idealists.

Voting at all is already an activity that is incongruent with my values, as it legitimizes a system that I believe in dismantling.

I guess to answer your question, I probably would've voted for Harris if she pledged to withhold weapons from Israel, or, if in a swing state, if I happened to be temporarily convinced of the utilitarian perspective, but it would probably have to be within like an hour of voting, and be disgusted with myself after

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competent

Blah blah big words blah blah sciencey stuff

Have you figured out how to get blocked yet?

Survey says I can't find a YouTube tutorial so how am I supposed to know

Though I'm typically not a fan of deontological ethics, living in a deep red state, I afforded myself the opportunity to remain principled in a stand against genocide. If I lived in a swing state, however, I may have given more weight to a consequentialist perspective and made a different decision, though I would've hated myself for it.

I could say a lot more, but I wanna let you take this conversation where you want it to go, so that's the core of my mindset behind that decision

Does voting for De La Cruz count as abstaining, for the purposes of the conversation you'd like to have?

anyone opposed to Trump

Just to be extra clear, myself and OOP oppose Trump. I don't think you meant it that way, but I wanted to be clear

If you didn't want an argument, [this] was not a strategic move

Yeah that's what I'm saying, I made a mistake lol

Also, I don't think OOP was saying it's deceptive, though I might argue there's some self-deception going on under the hood. I know 'cognitive dissonance' gets thrown around a lot as a buzz word but, as a therapist, it really does look like that