I know nothing should surprise me with these fucking people at this point, but my mouth still dropped open when I read that.

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    Not voting for the only viable candidate that wasn’t an overt fascist is empowering fascists. The democrats aren’t solely to blame those who allowed a fascist dictator to come into power share the blame

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      Not voting for candidate = voting for them.

      Solid logic.

      Telling people how they have to vote.

      Also, solid logic.

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        Thank you, yes when it comes to a fascist dictator vs a non fascist, non dictator, voting for the non fascist non dictator is the only viable option, unless you’re OK with a fascist dictator.

        Pretty fucking clear.

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      “Not voting for the only viable candidate”. So between two shit candidates, we should vote for the one who smells the least like shit. Nope. That’s not how democracy works. Everyone should vote for the candidate that bests represents them. I didn’t say that democrats are solely to blame. I said partly.

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        When it’s fptp yes that’s the litteral outcome. Everyone SHOULD vote for the best candidate that represents them, in FPTP that’s not how it works. When only one of 2 parties could get elected in the US and one of them is a fascist dictator, and the other isn’t that is how it must work. When fptp is removed, and you could get a real democracy then yes. Until then the only moral option is to mitigate harm

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          And that literally doesn’t solve anything. It just postpones the inevitable. Democracy lost the moment DNC plotted against Bernie Sanders back in 2016. What would you think would happen if we had another 4 years of Democrats? Fascism would just come 4 years later.

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            It would give 4 years to work towards electing more progressive people at a municipal and state level. It literally give a chance to solve something instead of being accelerationist.

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                34 months ago

                It genuinely did, for many Americans, trans rights, federal funding for science. Should it have been better? Yes. Because it wasn’t perfect does that mean fascism should be allowed in? No.

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                  All these are just a smokescreen. Inequality is the real issue, and the rich got richer, while the poor got poorer.

                  I am not saying that fascism should be allowed in. I am just saying that people who feel left out, and who feel that society has betrayed them, they will start searching for other alternatives to our current system. Who left them out?

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                    The GOP historically. If you want equality you don’t vote for the party that is shouting out “you are lesser than me, you are my slaves”