• darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Non-participation is simply letting the greater evil win.

    They're not suddenly going to ditch first past the post because of some protest voters/abstainers.

    • barrbaric [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      Dem supporters have been holding their noses for 50+ years and voting for the "lesser evil". If that has brought us to this election, where your choice is between "genocide" and "genocide +", isn't it obvious that voting for the "lesser evil" just inevitably trends towards the greater evil over time? It is not a successful strategy at mitigating harm.

      • darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        isn't it obvious that voting for the "lesser evil" just inevitably trends towards the greater evil over time? .

        What's obvious is that multiple election cycles of non-participation lead to people who want the greater evil winning the vote more often.

        It is not a successful strategy at mitigating harm

        Counterpoint: literally any of the things that happened under Trump that Hillary almost certainly wouldn't have done.

        Like nominating three of the judges that overturned roe

        We've been down that road before

        What doesn't happen is non-participation leading to the abolishion of America's two party system.

    • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      Since you just did the thing they described but without addressing it, let me repeat them.

      Why do you support a system that repeatedly makes you choose between mega hitler and giga hitler? Surely you recognize that such a system is evil and participation is an endorsement of it.

    • Riffraffintheroom [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      What would you call a machine that routinely and predictably produces evil outputs with marginal differences between them? How reliable of an evil-producer does this machine have to be before you recognize that the production of a certain type of evil is the machine’s purpose?