• @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    I don’t think someone telling me to actively put my stamp of approval on a genocide can lecture about moral fallacies. That’s simply not a position you can take.

    In any case, you’re trying to convince the wrong person, I don’t have the power to change what Biden is doing. You need to be finding ways to make your case to him and your representatives about their choice not to pressure him.

    He has time to take action before November, he’s aware of the conditions people have placed on their votes. He seems convinced that the votes of people like you will carry him. If you don’t want him playing chicken with ypur rights it’s up to you to make that clear.

    • Franklin
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      2 months ago

      Voting is not a stamp of approval I’ve established that pretty strongly with evidence and theory. It can never be a stamp approval as long as the current system for voting is in place.

      You do have a moral fallacy you say that you’re complicit if you vote for someone who is immoral. To extend this logic you’re also complicit in every other evil that could have been prevented. I don’t think we need a replay of 2016 to establish that a republican victory will do more harm both short and long-term.

      I’m not saying you shouldn’t pressure him I’m saying you can’t. Your methods will not work, never will. Because the voting system we have in place does not allow lack of votes to pressure, only votes pressure. It’s why millennials get so little of what they want because they don’t vote like older generations do.

      So why is pressuring Congress the one piece of action you actually have left so out of the question?