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Evil Ultra trying to split the vote 😠 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Rhetorical: Omg again? With same exact picture? In not really political comm?

(Disclaimer: not US citizen)

Go and vote in primaries for candidates you want, so maybe you get someone decent (so "no matter who" part is eliminated), apply pressure to them right now. Until you have enough power and support to create new party from scratch (and have it catch third of population instantly somehow, including republicans) or overthrow current system altogether, you have to work within it.

Also: in famous thought experiment, named Trolley problem, do you call yourself murderer (genocider) if you decide to push the lever?

I myself had different and conflicted opinions during those years, arguments for voting blue and third party (or abstaining) both look quite convincing, at least for not well versed in politics me. Ugh.

Looking forward to mod award on this post.

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 4 points 28 minutes ago

Did you ever, in your whole time of thinking whether you should vote, realize, that you can't actually vote, or does bluemaga logic not bother with those unimportant details?

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has admitted that it can choose whoever it wants regardless of the primaries, as evidenced by the decision to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

https://theconversation.com/democratic-partys-choice-of-harris-was-undemocratic-and-the-latest-evidence-of-party-leaders-distrusting-party-voters-236002

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/david-hogg-disrupts-democratic-party-rcna202202

[–] SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Well, that's shitty

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

If the electoral system only lets you choose leaders who don't align with the majority, it's not a democracy. It's a dictatorship with extra steps.

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 hours ago

Maybe even a

Dictatorship of the bourgeoise

[–] Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

The left should protest democrats until they put up good candidates

[–] Xorg_Broke_Again@sh.itjust.works -4 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Being able to say "I'm not going to vote if there is no progressive candidate, I don't care if republicans win again" must be nice when you're not the one being actively hunted down by ICE. But hey, at least you'll have a good view at immigrants being detained and sent to another alligator alcatraz from your high horse.

[–] KimBongUn420@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Being able to vote blue no matter who and going back to brunch with the only change being LGBT flavoured concentration camps and bombs going to to Israel must be nice. Blue MAGA mindset is disgusting

[–] Tenniswaffles@lemmy.blahaj.zone -3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

So you'll choose the greater of two evils then? You'd knowingly inflict more suffering on more people so you can maintain some sense of moral superiority?

Or are you a plant, here to intentionally discourage people from choosing the lesser of two evils and lesson overall suffering?

Because, let's be honest, there not a whole lot USians can actually do in the face of their government. Actually standing up to, and fighting the government which would be the actually best thing, is absolutely terrifying to the average person.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The Democrats are already guilty of genocide, both parties are the greater evil. Why is it not even an option to try and push the Democrats slightly to the left of fascism?

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

No matter how you spin there's an obvious worse option because the alternative (including resigning to vote) includes that and more.

Obviously there should be a straight up better option that doesn't include that but you've gotta pick the best option out of those you're dealt. A small step towards good, even if just a side step is better than leaping head first into the maw of evil. Something your votes do give you some agency over.

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 minutes ago

That and more being shown in the media

The actual imperial policy doesn't change.

[–] Aria@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 hours ago

This is written as if you're trying to imply the other party is offering to dismantle ICE.

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 hours ago

ICE concentration camps but with pride flags attached 😍

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 33 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's not even generate a candidate that doesn't support genocide, it's literally just not stand in the way of or conspire against such a candidate, but naturally the DNC and their controlled opposition functionaries can't even manage to do the right thing by doing nothing at all.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

new dnc chair totally promises they won't this time, please pay no attention to their constant and immediate attacks on anyone in dnc trying to move the party left or learn from 2024

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 13 points 13 hours ago

"C'mon Charlie, just kick the stupid football blockhead!"

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 40 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not that sure that history will give a shit about US American Democrats or US American Republicans.

Those labels will be lost. "US American" concentration camps, disappearing citizens, ignoring court orders, death squads ... there will be no "oh that was just the Republicans"; it will be "oh that was just the Americans".

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 27 points 15 hours ago

And they will be right to do so. The Dems are fully complicit in enabling this.

[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 14 points 14 hours ago

This meme sums up the US in a big way. No responsibility.

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