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The same goes for third parties in First Past the Post systems.
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I'm not commenting on the ethics of voting for Harris. I'm commenting on the hordes of people on lemmy and other social networks who were actively insulting anyone who expressed uncertainty in voting for Kamala. Actively insulting people who want to be on your side but are finding it difficult to support someone who is part of an administration that is actively funding a genocide.
Those people, in my opinion, pushed voters away by completely ignoring their concerns and telling them they are fucking stupid if they don't vote democrat. It's a brain dead strategy and mirrors the democrats campaign strategy, which categorically failed.
the problem here is not that they're criticizing the candidate, nobody cares. The problem here is that they have rather minor inconsequential issues with the candidate, and they're not pledging to vote, hoping that candidate 2 electric boogaloo magically shows up and solves all of their problems or something.
if you have problems with the harris admin, sure that's fine, but you can't sit there and go "idk if i should vote for her" knowing that trumps admin is going to be 10x worse in literally every aspect.
People hate it, but it's just true. You would rather elect some drunkard homeless dude than hitler, if given the chance.
ok to be clear, this is an extremely charitable statement. They don't want to be on our side, they want us to be on their side. That's why they aren't voting. If they wanted to be on our side, they would just vote, because that's all they would have to do.
these people are what we call single issues voters, now say it with me, single issues voters are fucking useless.
to be clear, if you cut off you finger while making food or something (can be literally any example) and you ask me to take you to the hospital (on account of no longer having a finger) and i hand you a towel on the way out to the car, you aren't going to stand there and go "well, hold on a minute now, why did you hand me a towel? I didn't get wet, i just cut off my finger?" To which i would respond with "because you're bleeding everywhere."
and to be clear, i'm a political nihilist, if you don't want to vote because you don't care, that's fine, whatever, just don't come crying to me when the grim reaper shows up on your doorstep asking for a moment to chat. Either you accept the outcome of the election as is, or you fucking vote. Those are your options.