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@CornelWest
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@macklemore
HIND’S HALL. Once it’s up on streaming all proceeds to UNRWA.
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They’re not mutually exclusive. The real problem is that with FPTP, we’re just going to keep voting these assholes into office.
Right now, the left doesn’t really have a choice other than settling for less genocide. Voting any other way in this system is voting for more
I’ll never vote for any kind or amount of genocide. Clock’s ticking if Biden wants the anti-genocide vote.
Your principles are sound, but not voting in any election is imo equivalent to voting for whoever wins. If that turns out to be Trump your moral high ground has no basis because you actively enabled that result.
Voting for a candidate doesn’t have to mean endorsing their entire being, it can be for many reasons, most noteably tactical voting to ensure the least bad outcome.
This isn’t a matter of disagreeing with this or that policy of a candidate. This is genocide. I don’t need to agree 100% with a candidate to vote for them, but I do have a limit and if anything exceeds it, it’s genocide.
Whether you like it or not, refusing to vote for “less genocide” under FPTP is a step towards “more genocide”.
I get the sentiment, nobody likes what FPTP has done for our options when voting, but refusing to play the system isn’t the grand stand you think it is.
I refuse to participate in a system that forces me to choose between two genocides. There is no victory worth giving political backing to a genocide. A system so evil cannot be redeemed.
Not voting is still participating in the system because you live with the results, sorry mate. You don’t get to opt out then absolve yourself of guilt from the result if its the worst case.
Oh I’ll still be guilty of paying taxes, and of not doing more, but I won’t be guilty of voting for a genocidaire. Call it a boycott, call it conscientious objection, call it whatever you want, but I won’t sign my name to a genocide.
Taking away a vote for “less genocide” is equal to voting for more.
You seem to care more about shortsighted moral grandstanding than actually giving a fuck about the body count.
The pro-“more genocide” party appreciates your unwillingness to push back
The “more genocide” party appreciates your uncritical vote.