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And now the bigger evil won in 2024 and we got:
Thank you for proving the point that voting lesser evil slows the decline.
Fight for a third party during pre-election, but not during the election when it is obvious to everyone the third party isn't going to do anything.
It doesn't slow anything, there's an option of no harm but liberals are terrified of using it because the current system benefits THEM so much. All the harm that trump has created will be kept in place by Democrats once he's out, the exact same way they kept most of his first term stuff under Biden. Their ratchet effect always prevents Republican actions from ever slipping back.
What's the no harm option?
Expressing power outside the voting booth
OK, so what stops you from doing that as well as voting?
Nothing. And that's what we all have to do, since voting doesn't fix 99% of the problems we need to solve. It's like trying to build muscle by studying math. Will studying math help you when you need to track your progress and understand angles and pulleys? Yes. But studying math isn't going to build muscle. Nothing is stopping me from going to the gym and also studying math, but studying math isn't actually the thing that will build muscle.
Voting isn't solving any of our problems. Can it help a little bit with some of them? Maybe. But we need to be honest about what it will solve.
Congrats, you agree with me.
Hey, don't let me stop you from signing up for trigonometry in order to build strength.
I'll be at the gym.
Jesus Christ it really is like talking to Trump supporter.
My message is an always has been doing both. Dumbass.
Why stop at two things? You could also be praying, buying crystals, and never changing your lucky underwear
Because those don't do anything. Voting imperially, factually, undeniable makes some difference, you already admitted that.
Oh yes, I agree that voting makes some difference. But it's never stopped a war in 250 years. It's never stopped a genocide in 250 years. It's never liberated the working class in 250 years. It didn't give women the right to vote. It didn't give black people the right to vote. Honestly, I can't think of a single major policy that voting ever effected.
Oh wait. I know why I think that. Because it's been empirically proven: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B
Cool, thanks for agreeing with me :)