• hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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    6 days ago

    Yes, you need to appeal to your base to win. However, if voters are choosing between two candidates with almost identical positions on a topic, that’s not the deciding topic in that election.

    Maybe it should have been, but it wasn’t. If those against genocide really cared about it as their single issuez they would have still voted Harris, who promised nonchangez as opposed to trump who said he’d let Israel do whatever they want.

    It’s a fallacious argument.

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      5 days ago

      If those against genocide really cared about it as their single issuez they would have still voted Harris, who promised nonchangez as opposed to trump who said he’d let Israel do whatever they want.

      …Those are the same thing. Biden also let Israel do whatever they want.

      I am against genocide so I do not vote for genocide. A truly mind-boggling approach.

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        5 days ago

        But you still got genocide. Just now you have it with a side of fascist rule instead of without. Hope you’re not melanated and near a border.

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          5 days ago

          Oh no the inevitable consequences of liberalism

          Sorry I didn’t continue to vote for the neo-Weimar

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              4 days ago

              By allowing Democrats to get away with their “lesser evil” sales pitch, you guaranteed what you incorrectly perceive as my inaction.

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                  4 days ago

                  Ok: By allowing Democrats to get away with their “lesser evil” sales pitch, you guaranteed what you incorrectly perceive as my willful ignorance.

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                    Nothing incorrectly perceived about it. You willfully choose to be ignorant. The world moves on with you whether you choose to participate in it or not.

                    You want to try to hide behind this singular position as if abstaining from voting solves or improves anything. It doesn’t. You choose to live in a fantasy whereby your abstinence leaves you without blame. If anything, you and others like you become just as callused and evil as those in power. You all helped put them there because you all did nothing to stop it. You saw a bad option and a horrendous option and behaved childishly and gave up.

                    You don’t care what actually happens to anyone. You don’t actually care if anyone lives or dies, because if you did, you’d have done something to slow or stop the current administration/regime from gaining any power at all.