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    Not voting for the lesser of two evils is the most childish shit. People like to bring up that Geralt quote, as if the situation in that story wasn’t made a hell of a lot worse by his decision not to choose.

    If you’re not gonna vote blue all the way down, then you need to put your money where your mouth is and start burning it down so you can rebuild it. Otherwise you aren’t protesting, you’re just being lazy.

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      Wasnt Biden supposed to be the lesser of two evils last time? How’s that working out for you?

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          Two major wars with nuclear armed states, one with an actual genocide.

          Are you proud of yourself for supporting genocide?

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              I really dont know what in the fuck they are suggesting, they sound like a Russian shill trying to derail the rising tide of Class Conciousness in America by encouraging leftists to not vote, allowing the mask off fascist Republicans to win. They would apparently rather be ideologically pure and let the fascists win, than pinch their nose and vote for the lesser of two evils and maintain the status quo where large swaths of the population are actively waking up to the hypocrisies of our Capitalist system. Either way they reek of astroturf and are extremely disingenuous, and have completely ignored the onus i set for them to explain what happened in Italy and Germany when fascist took control there, because they dont give a shit and just want to see America burn. They dont give a damn about the Prolitariat.

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            And 45 being in power would have made it all better and would have supprorted Freeing Palestine. /s Give me a fuxking break. Implying that i support Genocide is ridiculous, I’ve attended 2 Free Palestine marches in D.C. so far, have written the president to voice my opposition to the funding of Israel, and contacted my Representative. What have you done besides engaging in whataboutism on the internet? Biden sucks, but implying that voting for him and/or supporting dems in the midterms is supporting Genocide is assinine especially when you factor the right wanting to commit Genocide on trans folk in the US. You are supporting Genocide by not voting for the lesser of 2 evils you self-righteous internet sjw. Touch grass and engage in Praxis if you actually care.

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              Implying that i support Genocide is ridiculous

              Anyone who supports Genocide Jim Crow Joe Biden is a genocide supporter. It’s that simple.

              I’ve attended 2 Free Palestine marches in D.C. so far, have written the president to voice my opposition to the funding of Israel, and contacted my Representative.

              And then supported him regardless. This is just performative bullshit for you to attempt to salve your conscience. You are complicit in genocide by directly supporting Joe Biden.

              Biden sucks, but implying that voting for him and/or supporting dems in the midterms is supporting Genocide is assinine especially when you factor the right wanting to commit Genocide on trans folk in the US.

              The right? Are you trying to claim that the Dems are not “the right”? So your concern is for a tiny fraction of a tiny percentage of the world’s population, rather than the millions who are murdered by America worldwide? At least you admit it. American lives are worth multiples of other humans, right? Scumbag.

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                So I would love to know. Would voting for either no one or a third party be a big “fuck you joe!” with no real world consequences? Is that seriously your belief?

                Voting for one of two given candidates is far from actually directly supporting someone. You do not know what they did before the generals. Who they supported in the primaries. Unless you are literally out there plotting the coup to outdo all the coups of mankind and not idly sitting complaining online, then you have zero room to attack someone for voting for the less of two evils.

                Unless, of course, you believe Trump would have somehow done better or prevented this. The guy saying he would remove all the Palestinians from the US. The guy that the creators and backers of Project 2025 wants to be their guy

                And quit it with the “a tiny percentage of people is better than _____”. For one, well over a million people is not just some group to throw to the side to support another group and you’re literally doing the same thing you’re accusing this person of doing. Second, if you think that trans people by themselves are the only target of all that nonsense, then you are seriously incorrect.

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                  th no real world consequences?

                  Your hands would be clean of blood and you can say you didn’t participate in the charade that led to the deaths of millions.

                  Voting for one of two given candidates is far from actually directly supporting someone.

                  It’s literally supporting one of them. That’s what it is. Participating in the American regime’s phony processes legitimises them.

                  Unless, of course, you believe Trump would have somehow done better or prevented this.

                  I don’t care. There’s no air between them. Biden took all of Trump’s policies and made them worse. You don’t care about the policies, just the personalities.

                  For one, well over a million people is not just some group to throw to the side to support another group

                  This is literally your logic, remember? The lesser of two evils?

                  Second, if you think that trans people by themselves are the only target of all that nonsense, then you are seriously incorrect.

                  Are the other targets Americans too? If so, fuck them, the vast majority of Americans support its continued existence.

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                    Alright, continue believing this nonsense. Again, unless you are actively working on a massive coup to destroy this system, then all of your talk and nonsense is going to do nothing to help anyone.

                    There isn’t one major political group in the entire world that you standing up by doing nothing does anything about. Not one.

                    And again, you call for the attack of other people in order to save another, which is exactly what you accused him of.

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                So you are just an internet sjw that does zero real world praxis, talk about peformative, lmao.

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                  So you are just an internet sjw that does zero real world praxis

                  You know absolutely nothing about me, I on the other hand know that you’re a genocidal scumbag and a supporter of the USA.

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                  lol, somehow he believes that if you had voted for Trump none of this would have happened and Trump who is suggesting we remove all Palestinians from the US would have handled this better.

                  And seemingly also believes that had you done nothing it would have been a more powerful statement. Right, because allowing Trump to win would have been a good “fuck you” to Biden without any real world consequences.

                  Unless these people are out there plotting the coup of the history of mankind and not just idly complaining on the internet, then they need to just stop.

                  Oh, then proceeds to come up with some “trans lives don’t matter when compared to _____” or “you care more about ____ than _____?” Again, quit it.

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                    Fucking right?! If the dude isn’t being purpously disingenuous to derail democracy in America, its honestly sad.

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                    Ive attended multi protests/marches and have made a plethora of memes that spread class conciousness. However the onus isn’t on me to give my praxis bonafides when I’m not the one encouraging civicdisengagement. What praxis havd you practiced?

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                  Also relative to the Dems the Republicans are right, you absolute ham sandwich. I’ll vote for a Neoliberal all damn day to fight mask off fascism that the Republican party is championing.

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                    Also relative to the Dems the Republicans are right

                    Lol, okay?

                    I’ll vote for a Neoliberal all damn day

                    You know it’s okay to refuse to take part in a crooked system instead off getting blood on your hands, right?

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              Furthermore you are a shite internet SJW you haven’t posted an ounce of OC. I’m an internet sjw myself, dont get me wrong, but at least I post OC. Have you ever had an original thought? Or do you just puppet what gets upvoted on Lemmygrad…