There are no ethical choices under first-past-the-post voting. We must instead make a decision that reduces the most harm.

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    You can either choose to give a little support to the better part of our awful system in our awful world

    Or you can stay in your fantasy land where the 2 parties are absolutely identical and your Itty bitty push back is more effective

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      Oh my mistake, the party that capitulates unceasingly to the christo-fascist party and in some cases even extends their fascist policies (more immigrants deported under Biden than under Trump, etc.) is absolutely so much different than the christo-fascist party itself! We should be very grateful for all they’ve done for us

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        I’ll be sure to save this for when my trans ass is thrown in a gulag by trump and I can show the immigrants in there with me that you thought everything would be same either way.

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          I’ll be sure to let you know when Biden deports my gay immigrant husband

          Got a secret for you: The Democrats would run us over with a tank if it were politically convenient. You think a party that’s ok with child murder will protect our marginalized asses? Think again.

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            Got a secret for you: The Democrats would run us over with a tank if it were politically convenient.

            And the fascists would do it gleefully, likely finding additional ways to incorporate cruelty and torture. Anti-electoralism is statistically indistinguishable from supporting the fascists or accelerationism. Accelerationism has no hard data showing that it actually works, only that it increases suffering.

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          Biden doesn’t give 2 shits about trans rights…

          You genuinely think the old-ass catholic man cares (outside of expanding your future military drafts)?

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            He isn’t trying to kill me. He opposes bans of our medical care. If trans rights ended up on his desk, I think he’d sign it. So yeah, I do like him a lot better than the other candidate who literally wants us dead. The difference is subtle but I would rather be alive and lightly supported instead of dead and hated