It’s the result of falling for “voting does nothing/voting is actually harmful/don’t vote” propaganda (like this bumper sticker) once a decade, allowing the Republicans to cyclically come to power and erode all the checks and balances put in place, turning the system into a corrupt dumpster fire that makes it even easier for them to get the populous to fall for “voting does nothing/voting is actually harmful/don’t vote” propaganda. Rinse/repeat.
As opposed to choosing the greater evil for a change?
The actual issue is money in politics. It’s the reason no politician wants voter reform. It’s why Bernie never had a chance, not just as a presidential candidate. You need preferential voting, no more electoral college and no more Senate - pro rata representation only.
Why do we only have evils to choose from in the first place?
No it’s the result of the bigger evil being voted into office regularly because the majority of people won’t get off their ass and vote for the lesser evil.
There is no reason not to do both.
Revolt and vote for the lesser of two evils. Because if the one doesn’t work, at least it isn’t the bigger of two evils on the throne.
Hey it’s salty american posting doomer bullshit before an incredibly important election! what a crazy thing to keep happening!
It’s almost like, bear with me here, he wants democrats to not vote!
which is just craziness, amiright? why would anyone do that COUGHrussianmoneyCOUGH
You can always trust Westerners to blame all their problems on evil foreigners.
And you can always trust BlueMaga liberals to write like the most cringy losers imaginable
Except for those times when the greater of two evils was chosen? Probably unimportant and had no impacts, I guess.
Are you referring to Genocide Joe or Sleepy Don?
genocide joe was still somehow de lesser of the 2 evils
Was he?
Seems to me that, if at the end of your presidency homelessness is up 18% and people can’t afford basic food staples, and you’re still sending billions in free WMD’s to a genocider mid-genocide anyway, maybe you don’t get to claim you’re a ‘lesser evil’.
Americans don’t want to admit it, but what you’re usually getting is two greater evils in different packages.
Well that’s the stupidest take possible.
FSB slop isn’t what it used to be.
“Someone disagrees with me? Clearly an evil foreigner”
Elaborate on how abstaining or voting for the more evil version would yield a better outcome
That’s just stupid… First of all, what are we supposed to do? Vote for the greater of two evils? Second, we DO vote for the greater of two evils!
The point of these posts (and you’ll find similar ‘don’t vote’ posts tailored to other communities) is to drive voter apathy.
They’re not going to get you to vote their way but if they spend a few million putting fake voter apathy content in all of the opposition’s community then they will shave a few percentage points off of voter participation.
OP must be Maga to think that Trump was a lesser evil than Kamala.
Someone doesn’t understand that the Democrats have been running that platform for a while now and been using it as a whipping rallying call to kowtow the actual left into compliance with them without any real consideration given to their ideology. The Democrats are not actually left, they’re at best middle of the road conservatism and people need to realize that.
they’re at best middle of the road conservatism and people need to realize that.
“The lesser of 2 evils.”
America voted for the greater evil and is now experiencing face eating leopard.
L take
So instead of blaming the system that gave us two parties, you blame the voters who had no choice but to vote for two parties?
~Sounds solid. 👍~
plus it’s objectively wrong as exemplified by the last election
Seriously. Someone let me know when we’re getting off the internet and rioting.
Someone let me know when we’re getting off the internet and rioting.
I heard they were just waiting for you, man.
really it seems like it’s blaming people for just voting & hoping, instead of organizing and building a movement. voting for the lesser evil is not enough.
voting for the lesser evil is not enough.
Evolution can’t work if we back-slide.
just voting & hoping, instead of organizing and building a movement.
Let us know when your clip airs on the news.
You chose to confine yourself inside that box.
No more than you, who does nothing but complain loudly.
So instead of complaining and bringing attention to a subject we’re supposed to shut up and comply? How good of an authoritarian view you have there.
This person isn’t just complaining. Look at their post history. Their only goal is to suppress voting. They aren’t advocating for taking other actions or anything. It’s literally just “don’t vote for the better option because it isn’t good enough.”
If they’re complaining and suggesting other useful actions people can take then fine. Whatever. Voting takes 5 minutes though. It may not have the biggest effect, but it has a strong effect for how little effort it takes. If you want to contact your representatives, protest, or destroy stuff, then fine, but that means you have plenty of time to vote too, so you might as well.
Bringing attention to a problem is fine (even though I’d wager we’re all painfully aware of this one already). But blaming the victims is not. So there’s that.
Can we stop shaming and start telling people exactly what they need to do? You can’t shame people into activism when the government has purposely misinformed and left them ignorant on what real effective collective action looks like.
Ironically enough, the actual step one is to get to know your community. Pissing them off with a bumper sticker is kinda the opposite of that.
Nope, it’s also a consequence of often choosing the greater evil.
And for favouring short term over long term planning.
And zero-sum thinking.
And us vs them mentality.
And a lack of critical thinking in general.
As of liberals think long term. They are reactionary like their conservative bedfellows
Using AI for some tepid take about evil is fucking hilarious.
