• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 day ago

    Yeah you cant expect people to vote for the lesser evil 3 times in a row. The democrats won and had 4 years to enact drastic enough changes to not be called “the lesser evil” anymore, but they didnt. Now they have to deal with the consequences of their own inaction.

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      14 hours ago

      There’s no possibility of democracy delivering perfect candidates. So you are always going to be voting for the lesser evil if you expect a candidate to be elected. But that’s fine, don’t participate, it might pollute your pristine moral purity. Just stay the fuck out of the way when the time comes.

    • gregs_gumption@lemm.ee
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      22 hours ago

      So you decided to vote for the greater evil to teach the lesser evil a lesson? That’s a galaxy brain move there.

      Before you decide to say something stupid about voting third party, in the reality we live in if you don’t vote for major party candidate A you’re helping major party candidate B win. It’s not an ideal system, but unfortunately reality is often not ideal.

      • Borger@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I do not think it is fair to equate someone who abstained from voting due to dissatisfaction with both candidates to a literal MAGA who voted Trump. The latter are the ones who directly led to this outcome; the former just didn’t help it.

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      23 hours ago

      What you’re really saying here is that no one can expect you to anticipate the predictable realities you live amongst.