There are no ethical choices under first-past-the-post voting. We must instead make a decision that reduces the most harm.

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    It’s not just about president, but also cabinet positions. And Bidens cabinet is pretty decent. Trumps cabinet is awful

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      Which members of his cabinet are trying to cease funding of Israel and how?

      Which ones are actively opposing border fascism?

      Which ones want to defund the racist police?

      Which ones want to replace the inherently destructive economic system?

      Which members of his cabinet believe housing is a basic human right?

      Which support the immediate release of all those wrongly incarcerated for unjust reasons such as drugs?

      Which support the immediate cessation of our reliance on slave labor?

      Which support the removal of the barriers to communists and anarchists becoming citizens?

      There is nothing salvagable about the United States. When you say Biden’s cabinet is “pretty decent,” you’re doing so from a position of blind privilege. They may be good for certain demographics, but even though I’m living paycheck to paycheck, I’m still in the upper crust of this awful system. I’ve not seen one “pretty decent” person in Washington. The closest would be, say, people like Ilhan Omar, AOC, and Sanders, but even they are moderately right-wing and ultimately support a system that will forever oppress marginalized groups until it is forcibly removed.

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        Bruh there are a multitude of issues that the cabinet handles. As much as what’s happening in Palestine is abhorrent, there are in fact other important things happening everywhere all the time. If you look at only one single issue, then you are blind to a great many things. And if you neglect the fact that one side would also handle that particular issue with even more bloodlust, then you’re just not a serious person.

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          This is downplaying a genocide, and it’s really cold and gross to refer to a fucking genocide as “one single issue”

          Pretty easy not to fund a genocide, eh? Just … do fucking nothing, and you’ve succeeded

          You liberals love to act like it’s such a high bar to clear to just not commit atrocities, and it’s absolutely appalling

          Not to mention that I listed a whole slew of atrocities Democrats are complicit in, and those are just off the top of my kinda tired brain. “One single issue” my ass

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            You can either choose to give a little support to the better part of our awful system in our awful world

            Or you can stay in your fantasy land where the 2 parties are absolutely identical and your Itty bitty push back is more effective

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              Oh my mistake, the party that capitulates unceasingly to the christo-fascist party and in some cases even extends their fascist policies (more immigrants deported under Biden than under Trump, etc.) is absolutely so much different than the christo-fascist party itself! We should be very grateful for all they’ve done for us

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                I’ll be sure to save this for when my trans ass is thrown in a gulag by trump and I can show the immigrants in there with me that you thought everything would be same either way.

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                  I’ll be sure to let you know when Biden deports my gay immigrant husband

                  Got a secret for you: The Democrats would run us over with a tank if it were politically convenient. You think a party that’s ok with child murder will protect our marginalized asses? Think again.

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                    Got a secret for you: The Democrats would run us over with a tank if it were politically convenient.

                    And the fascists would do it gleefully, likely finding additional ways to incorporate cruelty and torture. Anti-electoralism is statistically indistinguishable from supporting the fascists or accelerationism. Accelerationism has no hard data showing that it actually works, only that it increases suffering.

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                  Biden doesn’t give 2 shits about trans rights…

                  You genuinely think the old-ass catholic man cares (outside of expanding your future military drafts)?

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                    He isn’t trying to kill me. He opposes bans of our medical care. If trans rights ended up on his desk, I think he’d sign it. So yeah, I do like him a lot better than the other candidate who literally wants us dead. The difference is subtle but I would rather be alive and lightly supported instead of dead and hated