as a person that came from the 3rd world country and new in fediverse environment, i genuinely would like to know about this.

edit: thanks for the replies! sorry, i literally don’t know the reason since i’m not a western lol. twitter/x is too biased especially when musk openly supports trump so i came here and seeing fediverse is mostly are harris or biden (when he’s still up for the candidate) supporters. don’t know about reddit tho, i only use reddit as a forum for linux and programming stuff.

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    Yes. Exactly! The reason people keep bitching about Harris and genocide is because they hope something might actually happen about it.

    Biden was an absolutely terrible candidate (that I was going to vote for) and probably the only person who could lose against Trump. Because people constantly bitched about how bad he was they changed the candidate.

    Harris doesn’t get to use Trump as a not-as-bad-as screen, and given that we don’t have the option of not voting for her, everyone should be applying every other available form of pressure to discourage her from enabling genocide or otherwise maintaining the status quo.

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      Now is not the time. After she is elected, get out there and put the pressure on her. But it makes no sense to risk the fate of the entire country on this.

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        This will come as an absolute shock to you. You can vote for someone you criticize…

        Which party was it that dogpiles on anyone that dares criticize their shitty candidates again?

        The point of saying it before the election is that the expectations are set.

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          I can understand that you can vote for someone you criticize. But it’s obviously implied that you’re withholding your vote unless the administration changes their tune, which means you’re not voting for someone you’re criticizing at the moment. If not, then you have nothing to pressure with.

          I am all for constructive criticism but I still don’t think this is an effective means to accomplish getting this point across.

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            Obviously implied? So there’s nothing in my comment that directly contradicts that and will make you look really silly in a moment?