• TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Except that the lesser evil takes your vote as explicit support of everything they’re doing, and will claim it as a clear mandate, we’d like to stop but our hands are tied the voters wanted this.

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        8 months ago

        What choice?

        Choosing between ketchup or mustard on your shit sandwich does you no good, if you don’t want a shit sandwich in the first place.

        If you’re not giving me a no-shit-sandwich option, why the hell should I reward you with my support?

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          8 months ago

          Then you’re choosing to allow others to decide for you.

          No matter how you look at it- you’re making a decision on who runs America- and your choices are:

          Democracy, or End Of Democracy.

          Vote to pick one, or don’t vote and one is picked for you. Either way- “neither” isn’t an option.

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          8 months ago

          It might be incorrect, because they don’t know your motives, but that’s the whole point of voting - showing your motives. In a voting democracy abstinence is begrudging consent to either candidate. The two party system forces this reality.

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          8 months ago

          George Carlin is dead, and I would probably laugh my ass off at the jokes he would make if he knew people were treating him like some kind of prophet.

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          8 months ago

          ROFL. Invoking a long dead COMEDIAN to illustrate a very current and very serious issue.

          If that’s not a perfect example of a schoolyard gotcha!

          I don’t know what is.

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      8 months ago

      100k people just voted uncommitted against Biden in the Michigan primary, I think they are getting the message