Because who needs to thoughtfully engage with arguments about the utility of electoralism, when you can smugly make a bingo card, and pretend that you won?

  • edge [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    B

    1. No, your shitty candidate is the reason
    2. Yes
    3. What other actions have you taken? What use were they?
    4. Voters have the memory of a goldfish. The current guy is bad (as always) so they vote for the other guy.
    5. Marx, Lenin, Parenti, probably a bunch of others.

    I

    1. Yes
    2. Yes
    3. Yes
    4. Sacrificing thousands of Palestinian lives for your own benefit is selfish.
    5. Yes

    N

    1. No, but it should at least not actively make things worse.
    2. You're the one trying to convince people to do something, if you're an asshole about it they probably won't want to do it. We don't care either way.
    3. Yes
    4. Yes
    5. Not necessarily, but it is saying you're fine with their big policies, like genocide.

    G

    1. It doesn't matter whether you vote, but I will think less of you for doing so.
    2. It doesn't, but neither does voting.
    3. "My guy's genocide isn't as bad" isn't the argument you think it is.
    4. Literally every election at all levels is the same: center-right lib vs right wing lib. We've tried multiple times to change that by voting for center-left libs in primaries, but you have resisted us every time, and those center-left libs turned out to be pretty shitty too.
    5. Nah, but I'd probably keep replying because I hate seeing stupid shit go unchallenged. I probably shouldn't though.

    O

    1. Voting for a candidate that supports genocide does indeed mean you support genocide.
    2. What fucking primaries?
    3. Yes
    4. Yes
    5. It gives you the same amount of power as voting.
    • Mindfury [he/him]
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      7 months ago

      100% hit rate

      the only one i was possibly considering being a debate pervert about was G4 but your edit cleared that up completely - even the lightest leftward push is frustrated by libs at all and every level.
      (I still might harbour some personal libshit hope that some political apparatus can be captured hyperlocally by electoral means, but a lot of evidence points to me being fucking wrong)