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    22 hours ago

    you’re legitimizing what they’re doing.

    Much less than if you vote for them, which is what people want you to do by voting democrat. And by not voting for a fascist you are in fact signalling they don’t have your support, which means they are less legitimate. There’s a reason why “authoritarian dictators” generally have voter participation in the +90% range and receive the vast majority of votes. It makes them appear more legitimate.

    Every American who did not vote for Harris knowing she was the only candidate with the ability to stop Trump 2.0 from happening, shares part of the blame for everything Trump’s done this term

    We might be getting into some complicated politics here, but the way voting works is that if you vote for someone, then they get your vote. If you don’t, then they don’t.
    What you’re presenting here is also Harris as if she’s not just basically Trump, which she is. She ran on committing genocide, pursuing brinksmanship with all of the US’ enemies, continuing her support for Israel, deporting more people than trump, giving more money to cops, being less woke, cracking down on protesters, increasing the military budget and all the stuff we don’t like when Trump does it.

    But if your options are literally “let fascists win” or “bite the bullet and buy 4 more years to hopefully change things via midterms and primaries”

    They were both fascists. Yet here we see something interesting, you introduce a longer-term scope - something beyond the immediate. So why is it, that when we argue voting for the democrats, we can apply a long-term perspective, but when we argue against voting democrat, then suddenly it is all here-and-now? How do you think an alternative is created? Do you think it appears out of thin air? No, it grows slowly. Which is why people vote third party or don’t vote democrat (or republican, but that’s a given.)

    Finally, you make it out to be that the only thing that matters is wether or not someone voted for Kamala. In other words: Voting is everything, nothing else matters. This is such an odd position, yet I see you DNC-dogs take it constantly. When you are told “don’t vote for the democrats” or “voting does not matter” then you respond “Oh, so I should just do nothing then??”
    People not voting for Harris does not mean they did nothing (and by not voting they have already done far more to work against american fascism), but you assume it does. Telling.