• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    No. Biden must be worthy of the office on his own merits. Or else this voting thing is useless. the people cannot hold their officials accountable if they must vote for them. That’s just an oligarchy with extra steps.

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      5 months ago

      No. You have a responsibility to help the people that you can. Doing nothing while a worse person takes office is the same as you advocating for harm, directly.

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          5 months ago

          Trump is leading in the majority of polls, you’re not going to be able to pressure anybody when he wins.

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            5 months ago

            That’s irrelevant. Trump is not the President. Pressuring him will do us no good.

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              5 months ago

              Lmao, feigning ignorance of a US Election in a comment thread that literally started by talking about the US Election.

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      5 months ago

      So who’s worthy of the office that has a chance to win in November then?

      Let’s see you name someone.

      It’s easy to suggest people not vote- but let’s see you offer up a candidate in Biden’s stead since you hate him so much.

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            5 months ago

            How the fuck is it fascism to use a feature of a democracy? You’ve gone completely off the cliff.

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              5 months ago

              The part where Representative Democracy involves Voting to elect a leader, not just voting as a symbolic gesture.

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                5 months ago

                How is voting only for people you actually want running the country in any way symbolic? Versus just always voting for a color. This is possibly the most ridiculous thing you’ve said to me in the last few weeks.

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                  You understate how voting works, right? Like… this was taught to you as some point? Because if You don’t, then I can excuse the ignorance. Otherwise, you really should know better.

                  Not voting won’t cancel an election. Someone is STILL getting elected. So you can either go with “genocide Lite,” or SUPER-MEGA-ULTRA-GYRO GENOCIDE 3000 v2.0.

                  But you’re getting one or the other regardless. You have the choice to help this country along with those in Palestine from suffering worse.

                  And it provenly will be worse.

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                    5 months ago

                    Oh yes I understand how you think voting works. You go in and pull the lever for whoever the party tells you or you get the stick again. But that’s not a democracy. In a democracy the party bends to the will of the people. Not the people to the party. Or else the Party gets the stick again.