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Former democratic party activists are organizing Muslims and Arab-Americans in Swing states to vote against Biden with the demand that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.

I'll allow them a little bit of electoralism this time.

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[–] sloth@hexbear.net 97 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"When you vote for the lesser of two evils what happens? You always get evil, and you always get less" - who knows but I heard it somewhere

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 92 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Genocide Joe vs Trump is a debate over whether to drive off a cliff while following the speed limit or at 120 MPH.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 46 points 2 years ago

michael-laugh perfect analogy

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The best possible argument you can make for Biden is that the left isn't organized enough to be endorsing accelerationism

It's not a real good one

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From a purely tactical electoralist perspective, you are better off showing up to vote for down-ballot state and local officials and leaving national ones blank. It's the opposite of what people normally do, which is just not show up if they don't like the national candidates. The parties look at the difference in votes both between candidates and in terms of the overall number cast.

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's probably the best approach.

[–] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Accelerationism is when you spend the first Tuesday ocurring after a Monday in November gooning on your couch instead of voting to re-elect the guy who's arming genocidaires and spreading blood libel in addresses to the nation.

[–] WithoutFurtherRelay@hexbear.net 77 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Because we always vote for the lesser of two evils, we now have a system where candidates can be as evil as they want as long as the other candidate is more evil. There is no incentive to be anything except slightly less ghoulish than the other person. And even then, they can usually get away with being more ghoulish than the other person if it fits well enough into the current bigoted zeitgeist.

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I remember reading something like that from one of the Witcher books from that one Pole writer.

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“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

[–] Venus@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The point of this quote by Geralt in the story is that Geralt is wrong and using it as an excuse to avoid taking action to protect innocent lives. The result of this stance of his is that he butchers several people in a public square and gets driven out of town and forever labeled "The Butcher of Blaviken." Only a couple pages after this 'evil is evil' monologue he says, verbatim, "We have to choose the lesser evil!"

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

lol. lmao even

[–] Balefirex@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago

I've only read the books.

well a part of the first book

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

there's naked boobie in that clip, YouTube has fallen