The problem is that, as always, the sides aren’t the same. One side is ravenous to begin killing as many Palestinian children as possible, and the other is tepid and wants to make sure we’re still sending sufficient aid to our allies in Ukraine fighting against a war of extinction.
Both sides want to aid in the death of Palestinian children, and for that both are reprehensible, but you can see that one is still preferable to the other. Voting for neither helps the worst side. I’m not going to pretend that it is easy to push past the Biden administrations crimes, but it will be harder to swallow a Ukrainian loss as a result of a Republican demagogue coming to power.
in the trolley scenario, do you change your answer based on whether others are watching? i don’t, and I won’t be responsible for giving bad people power.
There’s some mental gymnastics in this one. Congrats on ignoring the consequences of first past the post, making it all the Democrats responsibility, and absolving Republicans of all guilt. Oh not to mention, ignoring those who don’t vote because “both sides are the same” even though anyone with eyeballs can realize that’s not true.
The problem is that, as always, the sides aren’t the same. One side is ravenous to begin killing as many Palestinian children as possible, and the other is tepid and wants to make sure we’re still sending sufficient aid to our allies in Ukraine fighting against a war of extinction.
Both sides want to aid in the death of Palestinian children, and for that both are reprehensible, but you can see that one is still preferable to the other. Voting for neither helps the worst side. I’m not going to pretend that it is easy to push past the Biden administrations crimes, but it will be harder to swallow a Ukrainian loss as a result of a Republican demagogue coming to power.
the only vote that helps either side is a vote for that side.
you won’t get me to endorse either of these evils.
A vote is not an endorsement. It’s especially not a personal endorsement because it’s fucking anonymous. Get over yourself.
in the trolley scenario, do you change your answer based on whether others are watching? i don’t, and I won’t be responsible for giving bad people power.
That thinking got Trump elected.
people voting for trump got trump elected
clinton backing trump in the primary got trump elected
uncountable hours of free press got trump elected
What really got Trump elected was democrats wanting to uphold the status quo and thus pushing for a worse republican party so that they can position themselves as heroes by comparison: https://www.salon.com/2016/11/09/the-hillary-clinton-campaign-intentionally-created-donald-trump-with-its-pied-piper-strategy/
There’s some mental gymnastics in this one. Congrats on ignoring the consequences of first past the post, making it all the Democrats responsibility, and absolving Republicans of all guilt. Oh not to mention, ignoring those who don’t vote because “both sides are the same” even though anyone with eyeballs can realize that’s not true.
Youve already decided to, but I get why you feel like you need to bury yourself in the sand.
this seems like some kind of snarky rhetoric, but I must be too obtuse to understand it
Its not rhetoric, and its really not even that snarky.
But after seeing your other comments I 100% do not expect you to understand normal human conversation, so dont stress too much about it buddy
this is more rhetoric totally off topic, meant only as a personal attack
You use a lot of words wrong, which really highlights my point.
wrong.
It means your ignoring the obvious and negative things. “Burying your head in the sand” is a very common idiom.