• MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    Okay, so I said abstaining increases the amount of genocide, voting D decreases it. You said that’s not true, Trump wouldn’t bomb West Bank. I pressed you to state it explicitly, you walked that claim back. I am now going to treat the debate on D being better than R as settled.

    America uses the First Past The Post voting system. FPTP suffers from the spoiler effect, which guarantees that regardless of your political affiliation or the specifics of the situation, voting third party always harms your interests. This has been mathematically and experimentally proven. Voting third party is, in terms of consequences, the same as abstaining.

    Therefore, in terms of consequences, you are risking more Palestinian lives than I am.

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      4 months ago

      You said that’s not true, Trump wouldn’t bomb West Bank.

      citation needed lmao

      I am now going to treat the debate on D being better than R as settled.

      democrats: genocide with pinkwashing

      republicans: genocide with magawashing

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      4 months ago

      Okay, so I said abstaining increases the amount of genocide, voting D decreases it.

      yes, another baseless assertion. here’s what you’re communicating to me: “my enemy is ontologically evil therefor anything other than supporting me is increasing harm”.

      The most notable genocide that’s happened in the last decade has been with Democrats willingly participating.

      Our presidential election is completely independent of the popular vote, I am participating in it because it’s what we have, however you are kidding yourself if you think my vote has any influence on which genocidal maniac ends up at the helm.

      You are Canadian and babyraging that people in a country you don’t live in are not taking your political input seriously.