As the title states I am confused on this matter. The way I see it, the USA has a two party system and in the next few weeks they’re either going to have Trump or Harris as president, come inauguration day. With this in mind doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

Giving your vote to an independent or worse not voting at all, just gives more of a chance for Trump to win the election and then who knows what crazy stuff he will allow, or encourage, Israel to get away with.

I really don’t get the logic. As sure nobody wants to vote for a party allowing these heinous crimes to be committed, but given you’re getting one of them shouldn’t you be voting for the one that will be the least horrible of the two.

Please don’t come at me with pro-Israeli rhetoric as this isn’t the post for that, I’m asking about why people would make such choices and I’m not up for debate on the Middle East, on this post, you can DM me for that.

Edit: Bedtime here now so will respond to incoming comments in the morning, love starting the day with an inbox full 😊.

Edit 2: This blew up, it’s a little overwhelming right now but I do intent on replying to everybody that took the time to comment. Just need to get in the right headspace.

  • davelAEnglish
    2612·
    28 days ago

    There are, but not on Lemmy, because Lemmy is still much too small to bother with.

      • davelAEnglish
        1711·
        28 days ago

        Are you a Lemmy sock puppetry expert? Because I am.

        Which Lemmy admins are saying there are astro-turf/sock puppet accounts? Because I haven’t heard any.

        There is the occasional spammer or corpo shill, who is quickly dealt with, and that’s about it.

        • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
          1115·
          28 days ago

          Are you a Lemmy sock puppetry expert? Because I am.

          Oh wow, a real sock puppetry expert! That’s so amazing, can I have your autograph to show to my children?

          • davelAEnglish
            1911·
            27 days ago

            Buddy, I admin lemmy.ml. I do know a thing or two about the Lemmyverse.

              • davelAEnglish
                197·
                27 days ago

                Go ask admins of other instances then.

              • Count042
                5·
                25 days ago

                Spoken like someone that has never been an admin of anything.

                There are ways to observe sock puppets solely from metadata that the admins have access to without even looking at the content of the posts.

                The admins are literally one of the few groups that can actually, quantitatively, state that there are few sock puppets.