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Edit of yesterday's meme with accounted for non-voters

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[-] Vailliant@lemmy.world 2 points 7 minutes ago

I feel at this point the majority of content on this sub is not funny or a meme anymore. While I don't agree with Trump at this point Lemmy is becoming "astroturfed" like reddit

[-] chrischryse@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

Just nuke the planet cuz humans suck regardless

[-] ech@lemm.ee 21 points 1 hour ago

This is more direct, but I always saw the original thought experiment as a way to explore that very concept - is inaction a "choice"? IMO, the only rational answer is Yes.

Even without the third rail, "no choice" is very clearly a choice. People just selfishly want to believe they don't share responsibility if they just let things happen "naturally", as of their inaction means they aren't involved. But they are. We all are. Pretending otherwise is foolish.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 minutes ago

Yeah, that's why there's all the variations of pushing an extremely large person in front of the train to stop it, and things like that. The lever, obviously it's a choice that you should make. The person, it's still a choice, but at what point is it not an issue you should try to handle.

Voting is a lever. There's other actions that are more akin to pushing someone onto the tracks.

[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world -4 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 23 minutes ago)

Those of us who don’t vote know this. We’re counting on it.

The machine is going to keep on killing people overseas and persecuting minorities. But the system is based on consent. If Harris wins she will claim that the voters have endorsed her and all her policies, even if we held our nose and voted for in spite of those policies. Same with Trump, who tried to take away his supporters’ healthcare and was surprised that there was a backlash since his campaign was claiming the people had spoken and he had a mandate.

A big enough group of third party and non voters shows the flaw of these parties. If they want me to support them, then work with me, pander to me dammit. Expecting my vote when you promise absolutely nothing for my community is a common Democratic trait; look at how little some Democratic politicians did for the black community and their retort was “where else are you gonna go?” They’re doing it again for black Americans and Muslim Americans. Harris won’t even be seen with those voters but she found time to hug Liz Cheney and invite her into the big tent. Harris says Black Lives Matter, she says Trans lives matter, she says Israeli lives matter, she won’t say that Arab lives matter equal to Israeli ones. Why shouldn’t I vote for Stein, who DOES say this? Harris made a choice to back every one of Biden’s failed policies and made a calculated decision that she can win the election without me. Hillary thought the same, and hoped that by throwing Muslim-Americans under the bus she could maybe get a few republicans to change to her side. It failed, and it will fail again.

Edit: ah yes, downvote me all you want but I’ve been speaking to voters in swing states and you’re only lying to yourself if you can’t address this issue for them. Harris can’t even bring herself to say the most basic talking points in support of Palestinian rights. Just say you plan to make a committee to look into how to build a future Palestinian state or that looking back it was wrong for Biden to deny the Palestinian death count, and that would address a lot of concerns, but it’s like she’s intentionally making it harder for Arabs and Muslims to vote for her.

[-] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 45 minutes ago

Alternatively: "I'm voting for Diet Fascism and if you don't vote for Diet Fascism too, you're voting for Full-Fat Fascism" but said with the sternest voice the weakest losers can muster.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago)

More "I'm voting for diet fascism and if you don't vote you're complicit in anything that comes, which will either be diet fascism or full-fast fascism. Not voting doesn't prevent either of these, and one is obviously preferably. No action is still a choice you're making."

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago
[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

So that's the middle path, a useless/selfish moral high ground that will ultimately see more people dead/suffering.

[-] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 102 points 6 hours ago

Add disabled people to this list, homeless people, just so many of us who would suffer under a facist.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 3 hours ago

Pretty sure the homeless one should be on both ends of the track

In a sense very true.

However Trump’s proposals would make being homeless even worse, while Harris’s would make it somewhat better (although way less than is needed).

So I still stand by my categorisation.

[-] yeahiknow3@lemmings.world 14 points 2 hours ago

Nuance is unacceptable. There is only utopia and hell.

Some people really think like that ahaha.

“Both parties are the same”…

Tell that to the people who’se families would get deported, to the women who lose reproductive rights, to the Ukrainians relying on our support to fight off an imperial aggressor, to the poor elderly and disabled people on social security…

If both parties are the same to you, you’re likely in a position of privilege.

[-] match@pawb.social 9 points 3 hours ago

homeless people need a flag

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 hours ago
[-] holycrap@lemm.ee 10 points 3 hours ago

Walmart selling that is just rich

[-] YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub 2 points 2 hours ago

In the early days of the IWW, many of the Wobblies were hobos. So maybe you could say that the IWW cat is a homeless icon.

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