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yea, but you get to brag to all the other inmates in the political prison yard that you stood up for your principles by not voting!
They'll be in the same political prisons as their primary enemies, the classic liberal Dems.
Am I allowed physical violence to the purported leftist idiots who land us there? I'll piss on their cracked skulls while reminding them we have the same values but I'm practical and trying to survive to fight for them.
You'd fight us but not Republicans because we destroy the notion that you're the good guys. You both want to preserve the status quo, with libs preferring marginally less grotesque methods of enforcement, and superficially opposing the fucked up methods Republicans prefer to employ. Good cop vs. bad cop routine, and you hate us because we're pointing out that the good cop wants us imprisoned too.
Let's be real, in actual prison, you'd be making aliances with the skinheads and guards 15 minutes in, then call on them to do your dirty work instead of doing any fighting yourself.
Same dynamic you're employing right now actually: "Fall in line or I'll sic the Republicans on you!" while fantasizing about the left getting sent to the camps for daring to oppose your brand of status quo preservation...just like Republicans, but less honest about your intentions.
Dipshits of both lib and fash varieties fail to recognize themselves as allies in defence of capitalism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy, yet somehow you always instinctively know who is more important to fight, the left.
The SPD voted for the concentration camps the KPD died in. Same dynamic will play out here.
You defended Biden for not closing the migrant camps, understanding that you would never spend a second inside one. We opposed them the entire time, not caring that they'd eventually be used for us.
Smart fascists understand how useful your brand of performative opposition is to legitimizing the system that keeps the treats flowing, so even if they throw did your ass in prison to appease their base (they won't), you'll be let go. You're too useful an idiot for keeping the real opposition (communists) from taking power.
Oh hey everybody, it’s the toughest guy on the internet! What’s it like being so damn tough?
LOL i can't wait to get in fistfights with them
Fuck the fist fights, I'll be playing human shield with their corpses while I sneak out in the cadaver wagon.
Oh Lemmy. Don’t ever change ❤️
I'm not as enthused as you to vote for a system where innocent civilians have to die for political convenience, sorry. My morals say that killing is wrong, and I don't like it.
LOL you guys never fail to illustrate my point in less than 5 minutes
If your point is "some people think that killing is wrong", feel free to consider your point proven.
You're choosing between "lots of people being killed" vs "LOOOOOOTTTTTSSSS of people being killed"
Based on your own morality you have outlined, ethically you would choose to vote Kamala then, as under her far far fewer people will die.
No demon at all has created it; other humans have. You aren't the sole person responsible for responding to it, but your actions will contribute to what happens next, non-action included.
You can say that this kind of situation implies someone else has done something wrong, leaving you holding the bag, and you'd be right, if nobody had done something wrong, we wouldn't have a genocide to talk about in the first place- but saying that leaving you holding the moral bag was a wrong thing to do doesn't change the fact that you are now holding that bag, along with all the rest of us. And about half of us (referring to the people of the US as a whole), if you haven't noticed, have every desire of causing even more harm. "Neither" is simply not an option when failing to choose the least bad thing will result in someone else choosing the worse one. It's not fair, it's repulsive even, but the universe does not work in such a way as to ensure only fair moral choices exist. Morality is a thing we invented, the world doesn't care about conforming to it.
Getting the best outcome you have with the bad options presented you matters more than whether or not you feel your own personal hands are clean- because metaphorically clean hands will not save the people of Palestine, and likely would doom some, and others elsewhere, that could have been saved. A clean feeling conscience bought by leaving people you could have helped to die is little more than a delusion of innocence.
#rekt
What do you think about China's Uighur genocide?
Show me a single dead Uighur. Show me any evidence at all.
Lemme guess, the only evidence you'll be able to provide is either:
Tell me:
You are just another dog of the US State Department. Israel thanks you for your whataboutism to diminish the severity of their very real, US funded genocide. Muslims everywhere appreciate your valient efforts to protect a Muslim group from an imaginary genocide.
There is no genocide that I agree with.
Thanks, as a person with a trans gender identity, this really helps me to understand that nothing will change, because fear and oppression will be utilised to force people to rationalise harmful actions as inevitable.
A trans gender identity? That sounds like a broken English interpretation.
It’s a fucky word construction, but it’s correct and in wide use. Transgender and trans are different concepts. I’m reading “A Short History of Trans Misogyny” by Jules Gill-Peterson which opens with this paragraph:
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Hey, I'm autistic, queer, and an immigrant. You can hate me if you want, plenty of people do.
My gender identity is trans. I'm also ethnically Ukrainian. Feel free to assume I'm Russian because I'm different to you. That's what human society does, create ougroups and scapegoat them. I try to avoid doing it, which makes me an enemy of those who do, because I say impossible things like "can we not kill innocent people?" For practical purposes, that will not happen, and asking for it is naive.
I know that. But, although impractical and naive, that does not stop it from being the morally correct outcome. My autism shows itself in a very strong sense of justice, and I find justice to be more important than practicality.
How exactly does not voting/3rd party voting create any justice in your opinion? Opting out of our limited and imperfect democracy doesn't magically create justice, it silences your own voice. Nobody here hates you, and broadly speaking the Democrats don't hate you either. I can't say the same for the cult of Trump. If you truly have a strong sense of justice, wouldn't you want to at a bare minimum try to prevent am actual criminal from gaining power?
One of many examples of the genocide apologists in this thread just saying whatever the fuck they want to regardless of the observed reality of the situation.
I'm gonna go ahead and stop you right there chief. Transgender people don't write "transgender" as two words. Big "as a black man" energy here, cishet loser.
Our posting buddy’s fucky word construction is correct and in wide use. I’m reading “A Short History of Trans Misogyny” by Jules Gill-Peterson which opens with this paragraph:
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Preface
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Also, if you’re still reading, please also add to your lexicon the absolute gift that is “cissie.”
As a non-binary person who is under the trans gender umbrella, without being transgender in the sense of having transitioned across genders, I am careful with my language. I am not transgender in the way people typically understand.
Feel free to participate in non-binary erasure, I'm used to it. Humans love creating outgroups so they can bully each other, that is why I find myself not labelling myself as human. I think gender is stupid, and I think humans are rude.
I'm voting so the state doesn't kill my sister if she has complications in her pregnancy.
Not voting is a choice as well. A choice that will make it so that your voice will not have an impact on whether the candidate that kills more will win, or the candidate that kills less. Choosing to abstain is an announcement that you don't care about those whose lives are being threatened, the opposite of what you seem to think it is.
A great Canadian philosopher once said "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!"
It's really not hard to rush to the polls
Honestly my ideology on it is the same as my parents and my grandparents, and even my great grandparents ideology.
I don't care who you vote for, what you vote for, or your reasoning's for doing do.
But if you refuse to vote, regardless of reason, you lose any say in complaining about what happens as a result, as you actively did nothing to help prevent it, meaning you have no right to bitch about the outcome.
Yes, but I don't have any other choice, myself.
No, it's an announcement that I care so much about innocent people dying that I am morally conflicted about being asked to be part of a political system which condones it.
The most infuriating thing about you nazi motherfuckers is you still have the fucking gall to believe you're better than the other side
It doesn't take enthusiasm to make an active move toward harm reduction if and when you see the opportunity, especially when the consequences are this serious. I would love to see ranked choice voting and a diverse and motivated number of parties to challenge the dichotomy we have now, but I live in the reality of the viable options in front of me in this moment.
This isn't about an acceptance or endorsement of the system we have now. Unfortunately for all of us, however, this is the system we currently live in. If my choices are between bad and catastrophic, I'm going with bad. Doubly so in cases like these. The choice is either the people who are suffering may or will continue to do so, versus these same people suffering even worse while making multiple new groups of people suffer, too.
If Trump wins and things get as bad, or worse, than the scenarios that have been proposed on record, more people will continue to lose their homes, autonomy, and lives in the United States. Many people who are suffering from atrocities actively going on in places other than the Middle East will likely also be worse off under these policies.
I hope those people who feel as if they own the moral high ground will remember they had an opportunity to stop it and chose to do nothing if we suddenly all find ourselves living in that world.
How many people died in Gaza today? I wish I had an opportunity to stop that.
Yes, and I am unhappy that the options all involve 'innocent people are dying right now'. This bothers me.
If it's the moral high ground to say that killing is wrong, then it is also the moral high ground for you to say "The choice is either the people who are suffering may or will continue to do so, versus these same people suffering even worse". You're saying that hurting innocent people is bad, yes?
Having to choose to hurt some or more innocent people is not a choice I am enthused about, no matter what the practical reality is. It would be churlish to criticise someone without food for complaining about their practical choice between going hungry and starving, I feel.
Practical concerns do not replace morality. Someone might have no choice but to abandon their children because they cannot afford them: this does not stop them from being harmed by the moral weight of what, in all practicality, they had to do.
Who told you that your vote has to be based on morals and not practicality? It's just a vote, you're not swearing allegiance to them or agreeing with their every stance. It's really not that complicated.
If you want to bring morals in, is it moral that women are literally dying because SCOTUS allowed states to deny women healthcare? Is deporting 11 million people moral? Seems like you get a lot of immorality when you let fundamentally immoral people have power.
Racist yank cares about american life first. But they are very different than MAGAs /s
My underlying point was the nuance of this entire situation, and you provided another obtuse black-and-white response. If you can't radically accept the world and your life, it's going to make it awfully hard to see it well enough to make changes.
There are no palatable choices in this election. You can vote for the guy who has said Israel should hurry up and finish the job or the woman who has asked for a cease fire. There are other choices, but they tend to support the first guy. It would be awesome to have a choice that results in the genocide absolutely stopping, and I feel it's entirely appropriate to be angry that isn't an option, but it isn't the choice we have. Perhaps you believe standing aside and doing nothing when the moral choice isn't available is the correct thing to do. I vehemently do not, but that is also an option American voters have, whether through protest voting or abstaining from voting altogether. Unfortunately, my world hasn't been that black and white for a long time.
You could do it like the brave soldier who did self-immolation. If I was american I would
I prefer action , or even just talking, over pointless gestures.
So you’re voting for fascism or just going to sit it out in a political statement? Or being bold and voting third party?
Not sure why you're acting like you can vote on this in the first place