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Another day, another news article on how Trump turned out to be SO MUCH WORSE (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Voting isn’t action.

Oh, is it inaction? If I do nothing, I automatically vote?

Voting for the party that made fascism sound reasonable to 80 million Americans is still “inaction in the face of fascism”.

I didn't realize that I was advocating voting for the GOP.

The only moral choice in the trolley problem is to stop the trolley.

Okay. Did these people refusing to vote for "Less death" instead stop the trolley, acquiring "No death"?

Or is what you're really saying "Letting minorities be genocided is okay so long as you feel heroic about choosing a course of action you knew had no chance of succeeding"? Like seeing the Nazis march into Ukraine in WW2, and instead of choosing to support the lesser evil of nationalist partisans or the Sovs, you choose to dance naked under the moon every month in the hope that the beauty of your performance will bring peace to all the world? As long as you feel good about your dance, fuck those Jews and homosexuals who got sent to the camps, right?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Oh, is it inaction? If I do nothing, I automatically vote?

Aren't you making that argument? That not voting was a vote for Trump?

I didn't realize that I was advocating voting for the GOP.

You're advocating for the party that boosted trumps popularity and legitimized his views in formal debate, and so much more.

And I was thinking in this analogy that stopping the trolley equated to ending capitalism. That's what I'm really saying, not your bullshit. (I'm not saying that's the mindset of those who didn't vote, but that that's the only way to end genocide)

But really, you shouldn't be surprised that the party of maintaining our current level of genocide didn't inspire people to show up at the polls.