• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Would you characterize your position as “vote however you like unless it’s a state level or higher position for which the democrats are running someone.”?

    How would you say the gbu-39 2000lb jdams Biden is sending to Israel impact women, minorities and the lgbtq in Gaza?

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      4 months ago

      Would you characterize your position as “vote however you like unless it’s a state level or higher position for which the democrats are running someone.”?

      That’s an over simplified take. There are races where the only two candidates are establishment democrats and republicans, even at the local level. I am saying be realistic with your vote, and don’t split the vote if a republican has a chance.

      How would you say the gbu-39 2000lb jdams Biden is sending to Israel impact women, minorities and the lgbtq in Gaza?

      This may surprise you, but there are women, minorities, and the LGBTQ in places outside of Palestine. And they’re gonna get hurt if the vote gets split thanks to people like you, who put their need for “clean” hands over the safety of others.

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        4 months ago

        So your outlook would be more accurately characterized as: first, when there is a republican who has chance to win a seat, vote the candidate who is most likely to defeat them, otherwise vote whoever you like at the lower levels?

        Putting the defeat of some party’s candidates ahead of the support of one’s own views seems deeply flawed. If it’s more important that those people never hold power then wouldn’t it make more sense to actually take real physical action against them instead of employing a calculus of strategic voting?

        It really does seem like you started with the conclusion that we should vote for Biden and are working backwards from there to reenforce it.

        Where else are American supplied bombs being dropped on women, minorities and lgbtq people?

        I’m not worried about clean hands, I’m not the person sitting at the head of the most powerful military apparatus the world has ever seen sending munitions to be aimed at tents full of refugees: I’m worried about the people dying by American weapons while my government protects the people wielding them.