“Every previous president would have ended it by now.”

“Biden literally couldn’t do worse.”

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    3 months ago

    Donald Trump is Genocide at home and abroad.

    Joe Biden is “only” Genocide abroad, and probably less of it.

    Therefore, a vote for Joe Biden is a Vote against genocide.

    No, it doesn’t matter that he’s an active participant in the apparatus that’s creating the genocide, because if he’s in office there’s less genocide. Which is the important part, and pretending otherwise is sophistry. If you abstain from voting, you are increasing the likelihood of more genocide and if you discourage others from voting, you are an active participant in the overall social apparatus that is probabilistically increasing the amount of genocide.

    The utility calculation is dead simple: more votes for Biden in key states makes more genocide less likely, and discouraging people from voting for Biden makes more genocide more likely. Therefore, discouraging people from voting for Biden is a pro-genocide strategy and voting for Biden in battleground states is an anti-genocide strategy. You should vote for Biden unless you live in a solid blue state, and even then it’s not a bad idea.

    TLDR: if you encourage people to not vote for Biden, that’s supporting genocide. Accelerationism never works for us.

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        3 months ago

        it’s literally double speak: war is peace, voting for genocide is antigenocide.

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          There are two options: ‘some genocide’, and ‘a lot more genocide’. The race is close, so if not enough people vote for ‘some genocide’, ‘a lot more genocide’ will win. ‘No genocide’ is not one of the options. Do you vote for ‘some genocide’, or do you assent to letting ‘a lot more genocide’ win?

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              As I said, ‘No genocide’ is not one of the two options that’s going to win. The race is close, not voting for ‘less genocide’ only helps ‘lots of genocide’. So you’re helping ‘lots of genocide’ beat ‘less genocide’, congrats.

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                3 months ago

                voting against genocide doesn’t help genocide. this is pure doublespeak.

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                  Voting against genocide doesn’t reduce genocide. In American elections, the only votes that have an effect are those for one of the two front-runners. Any other vote is an admission of equivocation of the two front-runners. The two front-runners are ‘some genocide’ and ‘lots of genocide’. Equivocating the two means you think ‘some genocide’ and ‘lots of genocide’ are equally acceptable. Q.E.D. you accept lots of genocide.

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                    Equivocating the two means you think ‘some genocide’ and ‘lots of genocide’ are equally acceptable.

                    no. i don’t find either of those acceptable. that doesn’t make them the same. it just means that neither of them meets the bar of acceptability.

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                    Any other vote is an admission of equivocation of the two front-runners.

                    false dichotomy

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              3 months ago

              Will that actually help reduce genocide or just satisfy your need to be self righteous?

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                I don’t believe any vote will reduce genocide. ballots don’t stop bullets.