• zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    so the best that can be done is vote for the least fucked up option and work to improve things.

    Democrats were good at the first part, but not the second. I remember lots of Dems saying “Vote for Biden, and then we’ll hold his feet to the fire!” Well, there was no “holding his feet to the fire”, because that’s seen as enabling Trump.

    The perfect candidate/option does not exist and never will

    Yes, but there are candidates who are better, such as Jill Stein and Cornel West. You can’t vote for a perfect candidate, but you can vote for the best candidate.

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      4 months ago

      You might as well vote for Barney the dinosaur for all the good it will do.

      A vote for a candidate who cannot win is wasted.

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        4 months ago

        A vote for a candidate who cannot win is wasted.

        Then it sounds like moderates need to be convinced a vote for a pro-corporate, genocide supporting, establishment geriatric is a waste of a vote.

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          4 months ago

          wait, that is both of them! So, the felon adulterer serial liar narcissist one or the one that is older by two years and doesn’t know where he is or what he is saying sometimes?

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            4 months ago

            Right? Everything you can say negative about Biden can be said about Trump and Trump will be the worse offender of the two. Biden does have positive qualities, which I honestly cannot think can be said about Trump. He is a sushi roll consisting entirely of turd.

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              4 months ago

              And you are happily imprisoning yourself into believing that the system is right to only offer you these two as candidates. If everyone that was progressive and unhappy with Biden would vote for Stein, then she could win. It is the mere talk about her having no chance of winning and the vote being wasted that keeps people in line to take the system as is.

              I see the same arguments made against voting for smaller parties in my country where there is a minimum % they need to achieve before getting parliament seats. It is a system designed to preserve the current political elites with their network to the economic and cultural elites against ideas and movements taking a foothold.

              Everyone sees what Biden is and what he stands for. If everyone who disagrees with that would take to the streets and demand the DNC to hold a real primary, or better yet demand fundamental changes to the political system, you would be surprised what is possible.

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                4 months ago

                Stein isn’t in the ballot in enough states to win the electoral college. She literally cannot win.

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              4 months ago

              The difference being people voted for Biden in the 2020 primaries over much better people. I’m not going to reward that behavior again.

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      4 months ago

      You need to also vote for someone who actually has a chance to win. Voting for a better candidate who realistically can’t win in elections like this were someone like Trump could win is basically handing Trump the win. His base doesn’t think for themselves, and would vote for him if he killed their family in front of them. I wish to God we had Bernie instead of Biden, but Bernie wouldn’t have won.

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        4 months ago

        I live in a blue state, so using that logic, I shouldn’t vote at all. Voting for Trump or Biden is a waste of time, because the state will go blue regardless.

        His base doesn’t think for themselves, and would vote for him if he killed their family in front of them.

        If Biden killed your family in front of you, would you still vote for him?

        I wish to God we had Bernie instead of Biden, but Bernie wouldn’t have won.

        What convinced you of this?