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[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry for the delayed response.

This year, it's a choice between a person who's funding a genocide while applying (admittedly limited) political pressure to restrain Israel, and a person who's publically stated that he supports the genocide and thinks it isn't going fast enough, and who would increase funding to increase the speed of the genocide.

By not voting for the former, you are implicitly endorsing the latter (saying, he's just as hood as the former), and are culpable if he is elected - the definition of moral evil includes inaction. Sitting this one out because you like neither candidate is a moral evil, since one candidate is categorically worse (genocide-wise) than the other.

[–] regul@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Biden has agency here. He could very easily get my vote, but chooses not to. He's making conscious decisions with expectations to how people will receive them. That leaves us with two possibilities, which I alluded to earlier:

  1. He cares more about genocide than winning the election.
  2. He thinks he can win without the anti-genocide vote.

If it's 1, I don't want him as my president. If it's 2, he's not expecting my vote and nor shall he get it.