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Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.

I'll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.

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[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Good lord, so the plan is to vote for Trump? The guy who has a pattern of simping for right wing authoritarian fuckheads like Nettanyahu?

Honestly, their efforts would be much better spent trying to get election reform like ranked choice voting up as local election issues in order to break the two party system's kneecaps.

[–] Thordros@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I'm gonna vote for Trump 5 times with my fake voter ID's Soros gave me.

I live in an urban center and do not have a single GOP official as a representative for any level of government whatsoever; my election is the primary. Go pester the shitty suburbanites with your, "A vote for third party is a vote for Trump!". They're the ones that need to hear it.

[–] Flinch@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

DAE BUT WHAT ABOUT TURMP? maybe-later-kiddo

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

"Fight the two party system" "No, not like that"

[–] culpritus@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

I can rank my choice of genocidal leaders. This is a civil society.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Read the article.

[–] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago (51 children)

the plan is not to vote at all.

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[–] duderium@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Maine has RCV and just suffered a mass shooting because the Democrats and Republicans are one party.

[–] HubertManne@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

great I will know who to blame and constantly badger them about it.

[–] sloth@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"When you vote for the lesser of two evils what happens? You always get evil, and you always get less" - who knows but I heard it somewhere

[–] WithoutFurtherRelay@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Because we always vote for the lesser of two evils, we now have a system where candidates can be as evil as they want as long as the other candidate is more evil. There is no incentive to be anything except slightly less ghoulish than the other person. And even then, they can usually get away with being more ghoulish than the other person if it fits well enough into the current bigoted zeitgeist.

[–] kick_out_the_jams@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

It's also important to remember that the president isn't truly selected by votes - it's very possible to get the most votes and still lose.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I remember reading something like that from one of the Witcher books from that one Pole writer.

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“Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.”

― Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish

[–] Venus@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

The point of this quote by Geralt in the story is that Geralt is wrong and using it as an excuse to avoid taking action to protect innocent lives. The result of this stance of his is that he butchers several people in a public square and gets driven out of town and forever labeled "The Butcher of Blaviken." Only a couple pages after this 'evil is evil' monologue he says, verbatim, "We have to choose the lesser evil!"

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