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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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- zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Everyone who voted for Harris demonstrated that genocide was not a deal-breaker for them. Gazans being starved, tortured, and killed was not a red line for them. And yet they pretend that this position gives them the moral high ground to condemn others, as you’re doing here.
  
  I understand why you’re angry, but that anger should be directed towards the Democratic establishment: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and all the rest who enabled a genocide.
  
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  - GeriatricGambino@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    Everyone who voted for Harris demonstrated that genocide was not a deal-breaker for them. Gazans being starved, tortured, and killed was not a red line for them. And yet they pretend that this position gives them the moral high ground to condemn others, as you’re doing here.
    
    but that anger should be directed towards the Democratic establishment: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and all the rest who enabled a genocide.
    
    You like to point fingers don’t you. Everyone but yourself. Not you, no, you were the true brave champion of justice for Palestine when you cast that Jill Stein ballot knowing full well she had NO CHANCE of winning. But your actions, and everyone else’s who didn’t push against trump getting re-elected, now have consequences, and those consequences are dire for palestinians. Now the genocide is on steroids, and I don’t remember hearing one word of protest about it from this corrupt administration even as a formality. But I do remember reading very recently about starving refugees from gaza being barred from getting asylum and entry in the US with one phonecall from that ghoul Laura Loomer who was gloating about it.
    
    Yours and the collective inaction against the re-election of trump also have dire consequences for Ukraine, for Europe, for the world and US economy, for the environment, for people getting kidnapped, sequestered and deported to Salvadoran prisons by ICE, for scientific research, and democracy in general. Yes the Democratic establishment is guilty of its share of blame, but do not delude yourself, there’s plenty of responsibility to go around. You helped make this. So take your share of responsibility. Own it. It’s yours.
    
    I understand why you’re angry
    
    No you do not. Otherwise you would stop trying to paint yourself as some hero of justice and just shut up about the bad choice you made that was motivated by your bad fucking take.
    
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  - TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    I hope you’re enjoying the view of our country from that high horse.
    
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