• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Is there anything the Dems could possibly do that you would be unable to stomach? Unable to participate in to any degree?

    If yes, why isn’t it this? If no, you are in a cult.

    • TonyOstrich@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      Anything that results in more human suffering than the alternative. Like I said before one is demonstrably worse than the other. We don’t live in a movie or book. I’m going to keep fighting the same I always have, and I can do that WHILE choosing the option with less suffering.

      • nieminen@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        I get the other commenters position, but I also understand that abstaining or ‘protest voting’ for a 3rd party that legitimately cannot win in our system does nothing but make it more likely that the far worse option comes in.

        I think the rest of their points are shortsighted, and that you are correct. We have limited power to influence things, and using that limited power to lessen the suffering as much as we can is most important.

        Now the people of Palestine are likely to suffer worse than they would under Harris, as well as a great deal of Americans, albeit to a lesser degree.