• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If you don’t vote Democrat, well…I won’t cheer it on, but I won’t be quite as horrified. Literally digging your own grave.

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      1 day ago

      If I don’t bend the knee you’ll let them kill me, because I didn’t kiss the ring. You’ll just stand aside and let it happen, because for you politics is just waiting for the next election and doing literally nothing in the meantime.

      News flash, elections are fucking over. Forever. Your method of always voting for the lesser evil lead you here, it’s your fault as much as it is every other USAmerican, and you have to do something else now. Do you think Republicans are going to let you vote them out of power?

      You need to act like you can’t vote anymore, because you probably can’t.

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        1 day ago

        Your method of always voting for the lesser evil lead you here

        It literally, mathematically did not lol

        I am a straight white man, American citizen by birth. What leftist political activity I’ve done has been anonymous except for being a registered Democrat. Even in the worst case, I’ll be fine under the fascists.

        I voted for Kamala Harris to save YOUR ass. And if you can’t be bothered to at least do the same, well…when they come for you, you can comfort yourself with the fact that this is what you voted for.

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          I voted PSL because I would have to kill myself if I voted for genocide. I already feel like I deserve to die for my complicity and passivity just by being a law abiding/ taxpaying USAmerican, because that too supports the genocide, to add to that by additionally voting for a genocide because it might be better for me? I wouldn’t survive that. I cast the only ballot I could without just casting a 9mm ballot in my fucking skull on election day. I should throw my body into the gears of the machine to clog it with my guts.

          That’s where I’m at.

          So when I hear smug pieces of shit telling me I’m going to get what I deserve? Yeah, maybe I will. But it wasn’t because I refused to vote for the lesser of two genocides. It’s because I’m a worthless coward that won’t do something that actually matters.

          Do you feel anything at all?

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            10 hours ago

            “I won’t do what I think is right, but I also I won’t do what will reduce harm.”

            Yeah, that’s about what I thought.

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            1 day ago

            Voting matters. Or at least it mattered, not sure if it will matter going forward. It was the single easiest and most effective thing you could have done to stop the fascists, especially if you live in a swing state.

            You didn’t fail because you were being a coward. You failed because you fell for Russian propaganda.