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I'm not blaming them for dems losing, and they can vote however they want, I'm not stopping them. This isn't about how you can and can't vote, it's about how to make your vote work to prevent situations like we're in right now, while also pushing for longer-term outcomes, and we can all have - and share - our opinions on how to do that.
Personally, I think it's counter-productive to refuse to actively vote to prevent our current situation in the name of ideals or whatever else. It's going to take years if not decades to fix the damage being done right now, in all likelihood. But you're welcome to have your own opinion on that matter.
if that sort of voting prevented this situation at all we wouldn't be here?
Do you think supporting the lesser evil magically makes the two parties put forward BETTER candidates? All that shit does is lead to parties racing to the bottom, voters getting fucking tired of it and either stop voting, or look at trump and go "at least he isn't a politician he'll do something different" and vote for him. Dems refuse to do shit about it but run shit after shit after shit. When they had huge turnout for Obama's message of "change" and now their message with biden is "nothing will fundamentally change" which.... cool. Great. Way to energize your voters. "Not trump" isn't enough. and until the DNC learns that, they can fuck themselves as they aren't improving or preventing shit. I'll always vote, but I'm voting for candidates that are the most worthy of a fucking vote.
Is your stance that Harris would have been doing the same shit Trump is doing, had she been elected instead? That it wouldn't have been any better? If that's what you're positing... I strongly disagree, and I really don't know how you can even start to back that claim up.
Regardless, vote how you want. I've had this conversation with enough people with your exact stance to know that there's nothing I can say to change your mind and there's nothing you're going to say to change mine, so continue doing you and I'll continue doing me.
She said she'd do the exact same amount of genocide in Gaza. She would absolutely let Israel start a war with Iran.