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I'm concerned about 2024. So many voters were asked to hold our nose and vote for conservative Joe Biden, but he's made it harder and harder to do.
He started off on the wrong foot by opening more concentration camps and sending his VP on an embarrassing gaslighting mission to Latin America, and it has just continued to get worse since then.
My expectations were already abysmally low to begin with, but even I didn't have "openly supporting a genocidal state" on my bingo card.
I think I still need to vote for him because of Republicans, but my God it will be hard to live with myself after I do.
Don't be hard on yourself for making the correct decision.
If someone tells you that you have swallow stale lima beans or horse shit and you pick the stale lima beans in hopes that you never have to do it again... well it sucks but those were the choices. If 4 years later you have to do the same thing again... well you do it, because eating stale lima beans is always going to be better than eating horse shit, and you're going to have to eat one of them.
You don't have to feel like the lima beans are your choice, your preference, or your fault or responsibility. They were one of two choices available, and you made the right one.
Imagine comparing supporting genocide to something as nutritious as lima beans.
Imagine using an analogy to illustrate the difference between two choices.
It seems you can't.
Lima beans are good for you and nourishing (and I find them delicious.)
If genocide nourishes you, that would explain why you're so upset at people who don't want it to happen.
I just pointed out how you're unable to understand an analogy. You don't need to provide more proof of that.
If you don't want people pointing out how your analogy is crap, don't make a crap analogy.