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We should condemn Trump voters for supporting Trump's genocide, condemn Harris voters for supporting Harris' genocide, and condemn non-voters for supporting whoever won's genocide (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 week ago by dragonfucker@lemmy.nz to c/usa@midwest.social

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Okay so the title of this post is a joke. But drag means it with a modicum of seriousness.

You see, the argument against this title is "We can't just blame everyone! If we did that, we'd be leaving people zero good options. We have to choose the least bad decision the voters could have made, and support that one."

Drag thinks this is a very sensible argument and agrees with it. We can't just say "screw every option, every action is bad" on principle. That's not productive. We have to choose some least-bad option to support.

Unfortunately, this argument is the same argument in favour of voting for Harris. A lot of people denied this same argument in the previous 6 months. They said no, you can just say "screw every option, every action is bad". They said not to support the least-bad option.

So therefore, drag is quite convinced that these people, for the sake of ideological consistency, ought to be condemning both the Harris voters and the non-voters.

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[–] borf@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 week ago

Inb4 dragonfucker starts shit and gets banned from another community

[–] AresUII@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

We can talk about this in the future if we have an actual voting system