• theparadox@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    And comparing the two parties like they are both the same within this broken system is counterproductive. One party is openly planning an authoritarian coup, and the other is far too beholden to the capitalist class. Voting third party or abstaining (same thing) is a vote to end whatever shreds of democracy we still have.

    Vote for the lesser evil and make a scene about whatever you don’t like but don’t pretend the two parties are the same. It kills morale and it’s bullshit to boot.

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        3 hours ago

        Then your values are flawed.

        You are watching a victim forced to give a gun to either

        1. sleazeball or

        2. a psychopath who has an explicitly outlined plan to use the gun to get more guns and kill as many people as possible.

        Instead of urging the victim to choose the lesser evil you are doing… nothing? Bravely doing nothing so that next time… the sleazeball will make better choices or arguments? Or maybe so that next time the victim will learn their lesson and find a third option?

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        3 hours ago

        There are better ways to end an empire than making a christofascist the emperor and hoping it burns to the ground eventually.

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          2 hours ago

          Oh sure but this

          Vote for the lesser evil and make a scene about whatever you don’t like but don’t pretend the two parties are the same. It kills morale and it’s bullshit to boot.

          Doesn’t sound like it has a happy resolution.

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              1 hour ago

              If we are clutching onto the shreds of democracy through bullshit votes where pointing out the obvious might break moral to the point of slipping fully into fascism… That just feels like the end of an empire. Wasnt a statement on how to end it but a genuine question of;

              So you you think this is the last chapters? Cause that sounds bad enough to look at history and see you don’t normally come out the other side of this breakdown unscathed.