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I’ve been asking for almost two years and no one will say. I get a lot of “screw you, fascist!” And “Oh, so everyone has to have a plan now?!?” amongst other head-scratching non-answers.
The most important thing appears to be to not be involved in any decisions, movements, or other political realities that might conceivably ever have a chance at existing in our lifetimes. I guess.
Honestly at this point most are indistinguishable from straight up FSB bots. Divide the left, no other goals.
you get to choose one and only one:
either the group that would not vote for harris is small enough that they don’t deserve representation, in which case the democrat establishment is to blame.
or the group that would not vote for harris is large enough to have impacted the election and deserved representation, in which case the democrat establishment is to blame.
you can’t have both
I think these are the people who choose "Do nothing" on the 5-v-1 trolley problem. i.e.: they would rather let 5 people die than take an active role in killing one. I can understand the moral argument, but it really does make for objectively poor outcomes.
The Trolley Problem isn't a correct Games Theory representation of this situation, not even close:
You have either been deceived by this propagandistic misuse of Games Theory and are now parroting it without fully understanding it or you are knowingly being deceitful for the purpose of supporting the leaders of your party.
Apathy is also participation.
They will tell you that AOC, Omar, and Mamdani aren't really 'Left' because they sided with the Dems.
Purity first last and always!
I've seen people say that Mamdani is a traitor because he didn't denounce the NYPD after that snowball incident.
Ex-New York Mayor Ed Koch put it so simply.
"If you agree with me 51% of the time, vote for me. If you agree with me 100% of the time, see a psychiatrist."
Meanwhile, American leftists: "if I don't agree with them 100% of the time they're not a real leftist"
actually it would be fucking nice if we could reach 50% agreement of the issues. too bad the establishment dems have more in common with republicans then their own base
Someone think of the consultants!
I had a long chat with you about this recently. And I don't think I said "screw you fascist" or "who needs a plan?" And I think I stated it pretty clearly. If the democrats want our votes, they have to not arm genocide. Not voting for them until they stop arming a genocide is a perfectly clear way of staking that position. If literally no votes are held back for that modicum of decency then they have absolutely no reason to change. There's absolutely nothing confusing or illogical about it, and I don't know why y'all pretend you're so bamboozled by it. I mean...you can disagree, go for it. Vote blue no matter who if that suits you. That's what I think.
But you want to know what I feel? All of you are in here with a photo of two characters whose lives have been destroyed, imagining "this could be me thanks to those assholes who wouldn't vote for this to happen to other people." It's so unbelievably selfish. We all gotta just accept that Palestinians will suffer like this...that's the price we pay for it not to be us.
so now we have a fascist rapist pedophile con man in office, the genocide is worse than ever, and now we have a new genocide in the making, not to mention in the states, and i'm skeptical that "votes" will even be a thing ever again.
congrats on your moral superiority
And all the democrats had to do to avoid it was not arm a genocide? Which they shouldn't have done anyway? Failing to see how this is my fault.
Sorry if we got in the way of your plan to throw palestinians in the woodchipper and go back to brunch. Congrats on your moral inferiority?
because they would have been better off under trump? how's that going btw?
how about the iranians? how about immigrants? how about education? healthcare? environment? economy?
dude, the "i won't vote for genocide" thing is noble, but you're ignoring the real world in favor of your idealistic delusion of a country where we can just throw our vote away and think that will change something.
can i tell you a secret: the united states of america will NEVER stop fellating israel. no matter who is president. did you think jill stein (or who the fuck ever) would snap their fingers and all of a sudden put a leash on israel? honest question
I mean...i'm sure you agree with this: if the democrats want to win, they should not be making choices that cost them votes. Their post-mortem on 2024 tells them that continuing their pro-genocide position cost them votes (according to axios anyway, who I guess got a peek at it somehow. the democrats have decided they are not going to publish it.).
That's real pressure for them to change. Not voting for the democrats created that pressure. They now know that abandoning israel will lead to a net-increase in their votes.
And yeah, I would hope that when looking down the barrel of more domestic fascism, knowing that it will matter from a purely Machiavellian perspective, the democrats will stop arming a genocide.
Like...I get how scared everyone is. I have family members who are undocumented immigrants in the US. It is terrifying. My neice might get shipped off to some el-salvadorian torture prison. Life would have been better for them if Harris had won. But I don't regret refusing to vote for Harris because (a) I reject the claim that I have some ethical culpability for what the the fascists do (that's just some ontological fuckery that I can't straighten out in my mind, even with the benefit of a philosophy undergrad and years more of school and work figuring out all kinds of tax-law fuckery), and (b) people taking this position has created measurable pressure on the democrats to change. I guess there's also the sneaky (c) my vote would not have counted anyway because I'm not from a swing state.
Yeah the better version of this meme has the text, "Well at least she didn't say anything antisemitic."
Wow you really showed them.
I mean…actually though; their postmortem says they lost net votes due to arming the genocide.
But I've been told that it wasn't enough to change the outcome? Which is it?
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza
I don't know whether it was enough to change the outcome or not, but it's a net negative for them, which means that we (folks who abstain until they stop arming a genocide) did show them. You said that sarcastically...but like...we did. We don't know yet whether they'll change course or not, but at the very least you can say we showed them it matters from a purely Machiavellian perspective.
That’s true, that was not you. We did have a good chat and iirc you had voted for Dems up until Harris? I forget but you weren’t against voting, you just had the single issue that defined all others.
Yeah, but that’s where we are now and it’s very very bad. I disagree that change of the kind you’re looking for will come about through throwing the election to avowed fascists, but it is at least a defined position with room to move forward, which is a lot more than some of the other intransigent non-voters.
I think "throwing the election" is overstating it. Harris lost votes because she decided to continue arming a genocide. The democrats know that...if they didn't know it before (doubt), they do now. Their position cost them votes. That's what their post-mortem says, according to Axios anyway. So if they don't change course, they're choosing to have fewer votes. They really really should not risk choosing to have fewer votes.