FAQ

Q: why not organize and stop treating the bus as a legitimate entity? why aren’t you working to stop the bus?

A: do both. cut the fuel line. break windows. put oatmeal in the gas tank. but maybe your efforts don’t succeed this election cycle. and if so don’t fucking throw away your vote if it can help your neighbors fucking survive. “harm reduction” is not a political strategy for action. it is a last minute, end of the line decision to save lives, after all other resources have been exhausted.

  • Syrc@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    They said they aren’t voting for Biden, and in a FPTP system that’s what it means.

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        7 months ago

        And because of how FPTP works, they unfortunately translate to “Trump”, “Biden”, “Whatever” and “I don’t care”.

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          7 months ago

          this is straight up election misinformation. a vote for any candidate may only be voted for that candidate, and it can’t be discarded.

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            7 months ago

            So you think Kennedy or the other candidates are likely to get more votes than Trump and Biden?

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                7 months ago

                …and you think in a FPTP system voting for someone who is very unlikely to win isn’t effectively the same as voting “whatever”? What’s the difference?

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                  7 months ago

                  the difference is that voting “whatever” is the same as not voting. by contrast, voting for a candidate is voting… for that candidate.

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                    7 months ago

                    So the difference is for one you have to waste your time to achieve the same result?