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• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m judging the people who stayed home, too; just not as harshly. There were at least two candidates on the ballot who had the correct position on Gaza, so those voters don’t have an excuse.

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  • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Voting for a candidate that won’t clear 5% is just as bad if not worse than skipping out on the election. That protest vote was summarily ignored before it was even cast and won’t effect any level of change. Anybody who decided Kamala’s refusal was worse than Trump’s everything has fallen victim to the same right-wing disinformation that MAGAts have been slurping up harder than an altar boy at a Catholic Church for a decade.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Voting for a candidate that won’t clear 5% is just as bad if not worse than skipping out on the election.

      I’m still going to do the right thing, even if only .0000000000000001% are doing the right thing.

      The question isn’t why am I trying to help Stein clear 5%; the question is why you aren’t.

      That protest vote was summarily ignored before it was even cast and won’t effect any level of change.

      I don’t protest vote. I think that’s stupid. That would be like writing in Mickey Mouse or something like that. I’m voting for a candidate’s platform that I believe in, not against another candidate’s. Ironically, a “protest vote” would more accurately reflect many votes for Harris, i.e. people who didn’t care about her platform but wanted to stop Trump.

      BTW, my vote was not ignored. It was counted. You can see how many votes Stein got on her Wikipedia article.

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      • UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Within a first last the post voting framework, a vote for a candidate that has an acknowledged 0.0000000000000001% chance of winning is functionally equivalent to taking the advice from Carrie Underwood’s 2005, Grammy award-winning song “Jesus Take the Wheel” seriously

        With that vote you are tacitly submitting to the whims of the masses which in this election means you functionally endorsed Trump for president. Did you think Trump would do better by the Palestinians than Kamala would? Because your vote for Stein (which was absolutely a vote protesting Kamala’s genocide denial) shows an indifference and disrespect for the power of your vote.

        Congratulations, you have consciously made the decision to be a single-issue voter and by doing so personally contributed to Trump’s reelection. The Palestinian corpses that will be bulldozed to make room for Trump Land thank you for your service.

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      • GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m still going to do the right thing, even if only .0000000000000001% are doing the right thing.

        So you are admitting, in your own words, you’re not interested in doing anything useful, you only care about grandstanding on your soapbox about your proclaimed moral superiority.

        You and everyone who didn’t bother to vote for the ONLY candidate who had a chance to win against trump made a path for his reelection. Your arrogant stupidity contributed to making the living nightmare of the west bank and gaza palestinians 10 times worse. You can choke on your dumb rationalisation.

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