• Red Army Dog Cooper@lemmy.ml
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      5 months ago

      then I do not trust your moral convictions, if you are so willingo to toss your vote to somone who you do not belive in what they stand for

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Since when do morals have anything to do with voting?

        If I followed my morals I wouldn’t vote at all because I’m morally opposed to the existence of government.

        • Fidel_Cashflow@lemmy.ml
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          5 months ago

          You will stand by and shrug your shoulders as we’re dragged off to the camps you spineless coward. Stop using us as a rhetorical shield and grow a fucking brain. Biden has done N O T H I N G to stop the flood of anti-trans legislation happening all over the country. He will do N O T H I N G to save us. UNDERSTAND THIS.

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          5 months ago

          They are the same thing. Either you vote to oppose a fascist wannabe dictator or you support them.

          There is no third option.

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              5 months ago

              That’s just supporting Trump but telling yourself you didn’t so you can sleep at night. There’s literally 0 chance of voting for libertarians doing anything more than wasting a vote that could be used to keep the orange fascist out

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                4 months ago

                If one where to think that Trump where the lesser of two evils would you discourage them from voting Libertarian?

                For most people a vote for Trump or Biden is actually a wasted vote. Most states are solidly Blue or Red so voting R/D won’t change anything. It is far more likely that your single vote for a new Party’s candidate will get them over the threshold to maintain ballot access for the following election cycle, than your vote for an old Party’s candidate will get them over the threshold to receive the plurality of the vote. Maintaining ballot access for new parties allows them to spend more money the next time actually getting out their message and building votes rather than having to spend most of it paying petitioners to get back on the ballot again. Eventually this could lead to a more representative multi-party system in the USA. But treating every election as “the most important election of our lifetime” and refusing to vote for a candidate that more closely represents your values rather than the one more likely to beat the candidate you dislike most, purpurates the system of abuse. Its like a person returning to their previous partner that verbally abuses them because they fear their partner that physically abuses them.