• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    Unfortunately for us, and especially unfortunately for children in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, you want to feel good about voting more than you want to effect change.

    and some say irony is dead

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      4 days ago

      What irony? However bad you think Biden was, Trump is worse, and it’s not close. I don’t remember Biden endorsing ethnic cleansing of Gaza. A vote against fascism would have been a vote for Gazans and Lebanese. Instead we got the one president in 40 years stupid enough to invade Iran on Israel’s behalf. Great fucking job!

      Adults vote strategically.

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        2 days ago

        I don’t remember Biden endorsing ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

        That’s becasuse you weren’t paying attention. Why do libs think the things they ignore don’t happen.

        Adults vote strategically.

        Indeed. That’s why we kept telling the Democrats that they were going to lose. But they ignored us, and handed the presidency over to Trump.

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          4 days ago

          Voting strategically doesn’t make me feel good. It sucks. However, it does effect change, so I do it. You should try it. On election day you might not appreciate it, but come inauguration day, or perhaps a few months later, you’ll recognize the value in meaningfully participating in your democracy instead of complaining online about an outcome you didn’t bother to influence.

          Millions of people are going to die because DOGE gutted USAID. That could easily have been prevented, and that’s just the start.

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            4 days ago

            you got the same result as people who voted for Jill Stein and the people who voted for Trump.

            that’s not effective.

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                  4 days ago

                  Nah. You said voting doesn’t work because I got the same outcome as everyone else. That’s stupid. Voting works fine when enough people do it and do it intelligently. Americans simply didn’t in 2024. “Eggs expensive! Let’s try fascism!”

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                    2 days ago

                    It shouldn’t be, but it’s still amazing to me that Libs have to keep creating arguments out of thin air, and putting words into other people’s mouths. Of course, if they could stick to the facts and the discussion at hand, they woulnd’t be libs.