The same can be said for the far leftists here on lemmy. This post is 5 hours old and there are no comments on it. Yet any post about Biden and they salivate while climbing over one another to throw gas on that fire.
I’ve seen others point out this fact and quite honestly- it doesn’t get enough traction.
There are a lot of bad actors among us here on lemmy. This really needs to be addressed.
I think there’s a perception of preaching to the choir here. A vanishingly small percentage of Lemmy users would ever vote for Trump, and Biden is just the default other option. You don’t need to convince someone not to eat a turd, but if the other option is to just eat a smaller turd, it’s fair to focus your efforts on getting people to opt out entirely.
FWIW, I will be voting, even though my vote is electorally useless, but I understand not wanting to cosign the actions of either septuagenarian genocide supporter.
Co-sign? People do not understand what voting is and use these dramatic phrases. It’s damage mitigation and it always has been. That’s party politics: you almost never get your first choice. Compromise is the only way. Sometimes the compromise sucks but if the alternative is far worse, you do the grown up thing and prevent the most damage.
Trump absolutely supports genocide. It’s proven. Time and again. So… Make no mistake, you’re getting genocide either way. And these people that think that withholding their vote will somehow change that are grossly mistaken. So they can either help their own country not become a fascist dictatorship (Project 2025) or they can throw a hissy fit and pretend they’re going to make a difference doing nothing.
Not voting doesn’t cancel an election. Far from it. It just makes it easier for the conservative choice because they always how up to vote while the left/far left don’t.
Maybe the democrats should work on that problem and give someone to vote for instead of against.
But they won’t and then they’ll blame low turnout for their lack of a good candidate
Nothing you said disagrees with what I said. My comment was all about the impulse to abstain, not advocating abstention. My final sentence calls them both genocide supporters.
Really? This is what you have as a rebuttal? To try and insinuate that I have nothing better to do at 10:30 YOUR time than to post on lemmy?
Looks to me like you post a lot of nonsense and antagonistic bullshit at 3 AM.
I’d imagine some people have better things to do at that time as well.
What really needs to be addressed is the false accusations of anti semitism leveled against anyone who criticizes Israel.
And the false accusations of genocide supporter leveled against anyone voting for Biden.
You’re voting for someone funding and protecting a genocidal apartheid regime. And it’s not some place nobody knows about, it’s front page news.
What do you want us to call you?
What are you saying? That leftists aren’t adequately critiquing the things Trump says?
Based on when I’m responding to this, this post went up when it was night time for a lot of America.
