• Gregor@gregtech.eu
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    11 days ago

    Okay, and so did and would Republicans. On a much larger scale and they would also ruin the lives of thousands of minorities in the US, such as LGBTQ+ people and immigrants

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      Like I said, as long as people being genocided are far away it’s fine. As long as you don’t have to look at the horrors, or be personally affected by them. Shallow self interest doesn’t impress me.

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        Genocide is not fine in any case, no matter how far away, but voting for Kamala is still way better than voting for trump, who would make the genocide worse. When the elections end, and if kamala wins, then we can critique the fuck out of her for not stopping the genocide, but right now, there is no better option than voting for her.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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          Voting for Kamala is a vote for genocide plain and simple. You can do as much sophistry here as you want, but it’s not going to change that simple fact. A better option is obviously to vote for a party like PSL that is not supporting genocide, but again you don’t actually care. You’re fine with genocide being conducted in your name as long as you’re not affected. That’s the truth. You know it and I know it.

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            Voting for 3rd party is quite literally throwing your vote away. They don’t stand a chance to win, and voting for them would effectively be the same as not voting, because of America’s shit FPTP voting system. And therefore, you’d give Trump a higher chance to win, because your vote wouldn’t help Kamala. And if Trump wins, the genocide will get worse. Much worse.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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              That’s a self fulfilling prophecy. Your whole argument would be like a German in 1930s saying they just have to vote for the nazis because that’s the only option on the table. If you don’t see the absurdity of that then you’re beyond all hope.

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                There wasn’t only one option in Germany. If I was a german in the 1930s I’d vote for a party that didn’t plan to commit mass genocide and didn’t say that Jews are the root cause of all problems. Even if that party sucked, it’d suck less than Nazis. This is harm reduction and it is the best approach in such situations.