• bouh@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I’m not fueling any fire. It’s already burning, and voting for liberals is what fuels the fire.

    You’re talking about US politics. Isn’t the situation dire already? Republican already are indirectly supporting Russian war, fomenting civil war, and destroying people rights. Are you telling me that media are overstating all of this? That the situation is fine actually and it can go like this for many more years yet?

    How did it got better with Biden in 3 and a half year?

    It would have been worst is always the predicament of the liberals. Everything else is worse. There is no alternative. But it’s a dead end. And we’re on the wall already.

    Supporting the liberals is fighting those who want to make a better world. It’s supporting fascism.

    And to get back to the subject : not voting is a right, and it is the only vote that doesn’t support fascism.

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        10 months ago

        So you’re actually the desperate one if you think that not voting this election is committing suicide.

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          Yes. I am desperate to live. That’s a virtue, not a vice.

          At the end of the day, you just have an inaccurate view of reality. You’re motivated by anger to think prolonging liberalism isn’t worth it because it’s a shit worldview that should be destroyed. I agree that it sucks and should be replaced, but I recognize that empowering fascism has no real upside. It doesn’t matter what liberalism “deserves,” as blame is only useful in guiding us to real justice. Mechanically, what is the best strategy for minimizing harm and maximizing well being?

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            The liberals are empowering fascism. Which is the problem you seem blind to.

            But as always liberals will never be accountable for their faults, and when fascism rise they blame it on the left. Exactly as you’re doing.

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              I asked someone on here if they’d punch a nazi, really disappointing response. Feel like this guy would say it’s wrong too

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              You just can’t accept the possibility that I agree about liberals & liberalism empowering fascism. You talk about blame and accountability, assuming those concepts are anything but instrumental in accomplishing real justice.

              Real justice is making things as good as you can in the future, & being just is the practice of trying your best to do so with the information you have. Punishment for punishment’s sake is a fools errand.

              I don’t give a flying fuck about making liberals suffer. I want what’s best for me and others. Not voting won’t make things better than if I vote Dem, the same as I did in 2020. That’s the bottom line.

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                You’re not making things better. You’re trying for things to not be too much worse.

                When the choices are both bad, I don’t want to be an accomplice to any of them. I don’t want to validate any of them. Because they’re both bad. There just happen to be one worse than the other. But it’ll happen eventually anyway regardless of your choice in this election.

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                  You’re not making things better. You’re trying for things to not be too much worse.

                  You say this like it isn’t my point. You’re not invalidating shit. It can easily be argued that not voting makes you the accomplice of whoever wins the election. You chose not to vote, so you’re fine with whoever wins. If Biden wins, you’re responsible. If Trump wins, you’re responsible. You could have weighted in on how much worse things should get, but I guess it’s up to liberals and fascists.

                  You cannot get off the boat. You have to deal with it as much as everyone else. Not voting will not make you or other leftists better off, especially because there is no good plan or strategy on how to prepare for this mythical 2nd round. Like I said, death cult larper shit.

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                    That cannot be argued. Because that would make it a parody of democracy like China or Russia.

                    Either you can not vote for either candidate, or your democracy is not worth more than those parodies of it.