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But this isn't a mental exercise, this is real life. The choice and all of its consequences are still happening regardless of your choice to disengage. They aren't "false options", they're printed on the ballot. The only way to reject the premise here is actual spontaneous massive revolution, and if you're suggesting that as an alternative to voting, well, I don't imagine you're of voting age anyway.
I printed two options on my ballot. Give your consent for one of these options!
Printing them on there makes it real.
Standard liberal smugness, decrying the backbreaking efforts and blood spent by hundreds of millions of mostly poor peasants who fought and succeeded in ridding themselves of the scourge of colonialism.
Right, I'm "decrying" successful revolutions because I don't believe that your armchair activism is going to start any actual movement capable of disturbing the status quo.
There's no action that's acceptable to you that you wouldn't label "armchair activism", other than voting for your genocide candidate. Just be honest with yourself and admit that.
There are plenty. But I do think it's performative as hell to withhold your vote within a couple months of a major election. There is no momentum for anything that could possibly disrupt the status quo in Palestine before the election, and letting Trump win isn't going to make that any easier afterward. Unless you're an actual accelerationist, in which case I'm glad you can so confidently accept the likely millions of excess deaths that will cause.