I’m not giving Trump an advantage by throwing away my vote, so I’d argue that I do have a moral high ground in this case. By (effectively) not voting, you’re demonstrating that you wanna see how Trump will handle Israel, instead. That’s not a concession I’m willing to make, myself.
Oh, you believe in the viability of a third party vote in 2024. Sorry, I thought I was taking to a serious person, my bad.
You can do much more than vote.
Right, but this is specifically about the election, where the one and only thing you can do is vote. At the end of the day, we’re all still looking at the same two options on the ballot, that part isn’t changing.
If neither candidate will stop the genocide, it’s our responsibility to refuse both candidates.
Okay, well reality doesn’t really afford us this option, as much as we’d like it. We can piss and moan all day about what we should do, but that’s a separate discussion from what we can do. And what we can do is make our votes be as impactful as possible with the options we have available.
People can have more than one thing they consider important, you know. “This one thing that matters to me is happening, no other events are relevant” is a poor mindset, IMO.
Besides, would Trump be handling Israel any better than Biden? Does he have some soft spot for Gaza that we’re all unaware of? Because I’m pretty sure he’s been sucking Netanyahu’s dick for years already, too.
Meanwhile, Biden’s opposition literally attempted to ban Muslims from entering the country during his previous stint.
Lemmy is still very much in its infancy. It’s not even reached version 1.0 yet. While we’ve all been on here for a while now, its future is still very much uncertain and hasn’t seen anywhere near the adoption that Mastodon and other microblog Fedi platforms have.
I don’t think the president is using DMs.
Sure, but Fedi Garden is seen as the de facto “primary” hub for this sort of information. There’s a certain power dynamic at play in this sort of situation that is being weaponized.
It’s like if LemmyWorld decided “We’re exclusively a furry community now”, after being the “main” Lemmy instance. Sure, they’d be within their right to do so, but it does a disservice to the Fediverse at large when things that can be seen as critical parts of the Fediverse’s social infrastructure are suddenly slanted in any one particular way.
Seems like a way of bullying community leaders into running their instances how Fedi Garden feels is appropriate. Which is intrinsically against the nature of the Fediverse, in that instances are meant to have their own autonomy.
Fedi Garden’s position in this space is to be a directory, not a dictator. This feels like an overstep.
What does that have to do with anything?
I do speak out against it, I’m not sure why you assume I wouldn’t. However, my options at the polls remain: Vote Trump, and help Trump suck Bibi’s dick, vote Biden and help Biden suck Bibi’s dick, or not vote/vote third party and go back to helping Trump suck Bibi’s dick.
No matter what, the US’s stance on Israel is still going to be shit and we’ll continue supporting their genocide. But I’m gonna go with the guy who at least shows some resistance to Israel (however pitiful it may be).
This isn’t the kind of year to be goofing around with your vote for the sake of sending a message because, in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a fuckin genocide happening right now and Trump would be the worst possible choice for handling a genocide. Save the third party push for a time when it actually has a chance; active genocides are not that time, and it’s incredibly selfish to hold your values over the actual victims of genocide.
You can vote how you want, I can’t change that. But just know that by voting third party this year, you’re effectively doing the most possible damage to Gaza, in the name of showing how much you support them. I dunno how the binding irony of it hasn’t already snapped you back to reality yet.