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I intend to vote uncommitted in my state’s Democratic primary, not that it makes any difference here.
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I intend to vote for whatever heartless soulless ghoul (i.e., Biden) wins in the general election, not that it makes any difference in this shithole.
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BUT (and this is super important to understand) this is NOT a democracy. I agree that we don’t want a Republican takeover because they’re nothing but a glorified hate group. But people who say shit like “we’ve got to protect American democracy” are 🤡. This ain’t one.
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Because having to vote for one candidate with no real alternative is not a democracy. And that’s the situation here.
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But please vote. I know it’s hard, and I know the Democrats are a bunch of right-wing capitalists and genocide apologists, but what choice have we?
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And help people get to the polls. Every election, factions in my state work hard to keep Native Americans from the polls. Don’t let this happen, nor allow anyone to intimidate you or others from voting.
This is not an anti-voting community. I’m very careful about only posting against parties and systems, not against actually voting.
Does it tell you not to vote? It does not. This is just more of the same baseless strawman bullshit that is ironically pushing leftists away from the polls.
I don’t care what you post, it just seems to me that that post would heavily discourage people from voting which is what you said you didn’t want to do. You can do whatever the hell you like, I don’t care whether you tell people to vote or not. I just wanted to point out that if one of your goals is to actively not discourage people from harm reduction voting, I would say that post is running counter to that goal. Also, I don’t care that you removed by comment, but I am kinda curious as to why you did so. I don’t think it violated any of the guidelines in the sidebar. I’m not trying to be critical of you or your posts, it’s not as if that post was wrong, just trying to convey how this stuff comes across to me and how it struck me as counterproductive to what you were saying you wanted. You do you, I just thought you might appreciate an external opinion.
In my opinion, you are guilty of what I see a lot of neoliberals do, which is to interpret any criticism of the candidates as an anti-election post. In reality, it’s downplaying the situation since Biden would be analogous to Gacy in that post, whereas Biden is actually responsible for far more death and suffering than Gacy ever was.
If anything, it’s presenting a sugar-coated image of the real candidates.