how on earth was that your takeaway from that comment?
neither science nor philosophy can provide objective truth in answer to the question "is there a god?"
it's edgy teen territory to act like they can
rutellthesinful
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voting for a little smidge of genocide isn't voting against genocide. it's still voting for genocide
and israel-palestine is more than a smidge
"well if you can't think of a solution, then 'full speed towards the ravine' is clearly the logical choice"
but what kind of protest is "I'll have no choice but to sell the ape"?
like even if your "threat" is losing you as a member of the community, you're still selling it to somebody else who will just take your place
the candiru acu is actually the common name for cetopsis candiru
the fish that swims up where it shouldn't is the vandellia cirrhosa
other elections, primaries
but those are both votes
ideally, yeah, if you wanted to exercise pressure on the biden administration, you wouldn't withhold your vote in this specific election, but those "other elections" have already passed
you could vote differently for the house and senate, but arguably that might actually lead to a worse outcome
donations
if you're very rich, then maybe, but most people aren't
general social pressure
general social pressure means very little without votes to back it up
sanders has a tidal wave of social pressure behind him, but then lost the primary, so nothing changed
it's why every time a politician tries to campaign for young voters, they crash and burn, because while young voters often inflict the most social pressure, they never actually go and vote
The alternative is to abstain or vote for someone with no chance
the point isn't to vote for the person to get them into office
the point is to vote for the person whose policies you prefer, so that you shift the other candidates closer to that position
yeah, 4 years of a very bad candidate is worse than 4 years of a meh candidate, but if you vote that way forever your candidate will never be anything more than meh
appoint three SCOTUS justices, irreversibly damage the environment, and pass voting “reform” to lessen the impact of your future votes
if you think this outweighs the benefit of improving the democrat position going forward, and that's a perfectly reasonable position to have, then sure vote for them
but don't act like you never had any choice in the matter, or that voting for somebody else would be meaningless
if you think voting for biden this time is more important, then by all means do that
just understand the choice you're making, rather than pretending one doesn't exist
Biden has taken months to stop veto-ing UN votes on Gaza, and even when finally abstaining, his administration pulls its punches by claiming the vote is somehow "non-binding".
Israel is still bombing Gaza, even after the ceasefire vote.
Biden says he cares about Gaza. His actions say otherwise.
3rd parties aren’t viable
this is just a misconception
if the democrats lose a million votes to a third party, then yeah, they're going to modify their policies next time around
if you think voting for biden this time is more important, then by all means do that
just understand the choice you're making, rather than pretending one doesn't exist
why on earth would any party listen to what you have to say if you preface everything you're campaigning for with "by the way, i'm still going to vote for you"
your vote is all they want in this scenario
it would be like opening a negotiation with "by the way, i'm absolutely going to pay whatever price you think is fair at the end of this, but i'd like you to consider giving me a discount anyway"
The first part is a response to "why would somebody be sad if their religion turned out to be false", which for the record, if you need it explained to you why that might be, you're really earning that "edgy teenager" label.
The second is saying that there's literally no way to be sure of answers on the scale of "is there a god?", science included
Philosophy asks some "why?" questions, but if you think it's equipped to definitively answer all of them you don't know much about philosophy.