• piefood@feddit.online
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    2 days ago

    No, I didn’t vote for either. It was pretty easy to vote against Harris, while also voting against this. Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.

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      Maybe next time the Dems should run a candidate that at least pretends to care about what the voters want. That tends to help in elections.

      All of this I agree with. Unfortunately it won’t happen until all the neolibs are run out of the party.

      But trying to pretend like you didn’t directly elect a dictator by “abstaining” is not only absurd, but ethically reprehensible. Much of life is about choosing between lesser evils and lesser pains. Letting the worst options win because a perfect one doesn’t (and cannot) exist makes you a deliberate, willing accomplice.

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      1 day ago

      I would accept that in 2016. This time around you dipshits knew what the result of your apathy would be and did it anyway.

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          19 hours ago

          If there is a next time, I will absolutely say to vote lesser evil again. Without a workable alternative, that is the option. I still see no workable alternative. Longshot third parties with ~1% polling are not a workable alternative. Vague revolution composed of ~1% of the population is not a workable alternative. When you have a plan, with reasonable chances of success, we can talk.