So damn tired of the libs trying to blame us for not wanting to vote for their lesser evil shitty candidate and trying to blame us for any chance of a fascist trump victory. Like dude this is already a fascist state and your shitty party should run a better candidate if you want votes. Anyone have ideas on how to shut their arguments down or is it just ignore the libs and carry on?
Just ignore them and carry on not voting for fascists.
Evil is Evil. Lesser, greater, middling… Makes no difference. The degree is arbitary. The definition’s blurred. If I’m to choose between one evil and another… I’d rather not choose at all.
- Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (The Witcher, #0.5)
It's always funny when they try to play idpol and say you're hurting marginalized people by not voting and it's your fault if a right-winger takes away their rights. Most people I've known in the US who don't vote were marginalized people who know it's all bullshit and don't bother with voting. The ones more in the know will vote in local elections and sometimes state elections but hardly ever the presidential elections.
On the other hand, people browbeating others for not voting tend to be white or privileged
"Huh, so you want me to vote for the Joe Biden, who continues to give states federal dollars, even when they use them to send the police after drag shows and doctors who proscribe hormones?
Narcisstic western-liberal brain-corralling, mostly. The uniparty isn't exactly subtle anymore; but until recently, they at least pretended to want the People's consent regarding their invasions and genocides.
Continues criminalizing refugees and poverty, continues funding genocide, escalates economic warfare against China, sends hundreds of thousands of bodies to die or be maimed to protect unipolarity.
They don't, but the elections help sell the idea that the US is a democracy rather than a one-party state. Most ppl don't vote, because they know from experience that it changes nothing.
Also the US is far worse than fascist, which is an ideology that grew out of a desire to emulate the US colonial project.
Exactly my point, Kim, Maduro, Putin, Xi and Diaz-Canel don't need to worry about your vote for reelection.
If elections in America are just as much a sham, what would they need your vote for?
That's exactly why, they discovered that blatant fascism generates resistance. So they go for obscurant fascism, plausibly deniable fascism. As long as they can keep enough people thinking "it's not that bad yet" they get to keep playing.
Real talk? They don't, as happened in 2016 and 2000. They just understand that when you do things like throw tens of thousands of people into concentration camps or support an ally's ethnic cleansing, it helps minimize friction with your populace to have some tissue-thin veneer of a public mandate for the news to beat plebs like us over the head with so we don't get ideas about charging things. Just shut the fuck up, pull the lever every four years, and enjoy your treats. Congratulations, this is a democracy, the sound of children screaming has been edited out.