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[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I voted for Harris.

That said, a non-participant is objectively less culpable for electing Trump than someone that voted for Trump.

It's ridiculous how many are clearly more angry at non-participants than Trump's actual voters.

This system is captured by oligarchs, I vote for least worst out of harm reduction, not hope, and I'm not mad at the people that understand that this ship IS going to sink out of greed/capital market worship regardless of (R) or( D), both of which are still selling the lifeboats to the highest bidder beholden to the free market that crashed us into the iceberg, and said fuck it, they're going to get drunk raiding the bar instead of getting in line to vote on whether to start shooting stowage passengers for kicks(R) as we all sink.

If you want people to vote for the "leftwing" party in droves, turn it an actual leftwing party with a platform of remaking our economy to reward labor over speculative investment, and making wealth hoarding to the point of being able to buy your own government and Regulators a thing of the past through taxation and even confiscation over certain levels to be put into the commons like education, clean public transport, Healthcare, etc.

Hell, I'll knock on every door in my state if the Democrats abandoned their neoliberalism and became the party of FDR again with a New New deal. But they won't do that, because they'd rather have fascism than stop taking the corporate bribe money that Reagan made them junkies for.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

Bro, the boat is sinking, some people are bailing it out, some people are drilling holes into the bottom and some people are standing around talking about how they just can’t bring themselves to bail the boat out. They don’t get credit for not drilling holes. That’s not a thing.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

You know the Nazi in a bar story where the barman kicks the Nazi out because having a single Nazi in the bar means it's a Nazi bar? Well it's the same fucking shit in politics. You don't vote or you vote third party, knowing full well that you're opening the door to a Nazi to take power? It means you don't mind a Nazi taking power therefore you're a Nazi.