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    85 days ago

    It is possible for her to be a bad candidate who made consistently bad decisions, and for it still to be a bad choice for an individual to not vote for her.

    source: *gestures in all directions *

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      95 days ago

      100% I have voted in every primary until this one bc it was canceled. I still voted for her even though I hated it bc the reality is/was that, of the two choices, she was not the worst.

      The time for moral grandstanding is always long past when it’s Election Day.

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        45 days ago

        The time for moral grandstanding is always long past when it’s Election Day.

        Good line. And good reasoning before that!

        I have voted third party in the distant past. It’s not some awful taboo to not play along with the two party system. And given my extended family, the further back I look in the past the more that right wing stuff just seemed normal, so I may not make the same choice now.

        But the time to abstain or go third party is when the price of expressing my more ideal choice is worth not voting against the worse of the 2-party candidates.

        I guess the logical exception to that is if you’re an accelerationist and you think we are SO far beyond being able to course correct that it is literally a more moral and humane outcome to turn the nu-neo-nazis loose on just about every vulnerable demographic that exists. Then you get to the rebuild phase faster and there’s less time for the government to kill & ruin people. But you never know if your plan is going to hit a little roadblock called nuclear armageddon.

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          25 days ago

          Again, third party votes did not remotely sway the 2024 election. Blaming protest voters for your candidate’s anemic performance just reeks of entitlement.

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            15 days ago

            Yeah sure, but I wasn’t talking about any of that. It was about the individual decision making process.

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          15 days ago

          Accelerationism is how we got Israel holding an abnormal amount of power for a country their size / economic importance.

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        25 days ago

        100% real. I had the same reasoning. I’m just mad she didn’t let me bring more people with me.