You have aided it by voting for Biden in the 2020 primaries and by refusing to hold him accountable during his term to the people who gave him a chance.
Presumptuous gesture there, personally I supported Sanders in both 2016 and 2020 primaries, but failing that I’ll take who has a chance to stop a greater threat over making some protest gesture by writing in someone who has no chance given the realities of the established system.
Another new account was made to comment in another part of this thread to try and argue against voting for an established party because that’ll never get a ranked choice vote. To that one I’ll say similar to above, making some futile gesture by voting for a non-viable candidate will have even less a chance of getting to the better system sought.
And to the other asking for evidence that the ‘genocode Joe’ mantra is likely started as an astroturfing campaign, no I don’t have some specific source, that was the point of saying it has the ‘feel of’. However, if one looks at it for a moment, who benefits by seeking to split the Democratic vote? Who has a noted history of using catchy names to denigrate ‘sleepy Joe’? The #hashtag style of things simply reeks of the kind of campaign one would hire a bunch of bot farms to spit out threads like this one in an effort to create a wedge in the more diverse party that just happens to be a threat to the existence of an oppressive ‘moral centric’ group who seek to impose their world views on the rest of society.
Presumptuous gesture there, personally I supported Sanders in both 2016 and 2020 primaries, but failing that I’ll take who has a chance to stop a greater threat over making some protest gesture by writing in someone who has no chance given the realities of the established system.
Along with fighting, downplaying, undermining, and trivializing anyone who sees things differently.
There are plenty of moderate and liberal voters finger wagging us to support their pro-corporate trash candidate. We don’t need you joining their ranks. What we need is for you to tell them they either need to make material compromises with us or lose to MAGA.
See, I won’t do that because these sort of ultimatums are counter productive to the larger goal. If liberal ideals are the end target then saying ‘give it now or let MAGA take over for all I care’ ends up putting everything that HAS been gained at risk to make a point. Letting the far right take control will inevitably move everyone and everything further away from the end goals making it that much more unlikely to make up that lost ground and make any progress in future administrations.
See, I won’t do that because these sort of ultimatums are counter productive to the larger goal.
You’re blindly accepting ultimatums handed to us daily by moderate and liberals and then calling it out when we fight back. You’re trying to hold us to a different standard than liberal and moderate voters.
putting everything that HAS been gained at risk
Again, this is a two way street. If moderates and liberals aren’t willing to make material compromises with us they are also putting “everything that has been gained at risk”.
What will you achieve? Like genuinely explain the material change that your vote for a third party will achieve, other than making trump more likely to win.
In a perfect world this would be a good strategy, but in the real world we have to vote in the way that gets us closest to the way we want the world to be, even though it is likely going to have its own problems. I would love for a third party candidate to win the presidency, that would be a huge step, but it is not going to happen any time soon. Voting for a third party right now is not a vote against the main candidates, it’s a vote of indifference, it’s saying “I don’t care who wins”. If trump wins it will only take us further away from a country where a third party can ever win, biden may do that as well, but it won’t be by as much. I know biden isn’t a good person, but we cannot let trump win again and biden is the only one who stands a chance against him. I know biden has caused a lot of harm, but I also am very worried that the US will no longer be a safe place for me and the people I care about if trump wins.
Thinking that voting according to yourethics is totally and completely disconnected from the consequences is a privilege not everyone has. Your ideological purity might have the consequences of harming more marginalized people because in your search for an angel, you believed it was better to vote for the devil than a sinner.
Unless you’re telling me that you think your third-party candidates are absolutely perfect, you’re already voting in degrees of “less bad.” Why wouldn’t you vote for the “less bad” that is more likely to win?
I think Cornel West is a good person and I think Jill Stein is a good person. so I’m probably going to vote for one of them. I think Biden and Trump are bad people, so I won’t be voting for either of them.
Hell I’d settle for centerists making material compromises with the left but the mere suggestion that they do so makes them seethe. They’d rather lose to MAGA.
I expect to have more options on my ballot
I’d love to see a ranked choice multi party system, but as things stand that’s not the option we have.
I’m sure that voting for a candidate from one of the two dominant parties will lead to ranked choice voting.
I won’t vote for genocide, regardless of the system
Then you will aid it through inaction.
You have aided it by voting for Biden in the 2020 primaries and by refusing to hold him accountable during his term to the people who gave him a chance.
Presumptuous gesture there, personally I supported Sanders in both 2016 and 2020 primaries, but failing that I’ll take who has a chance to stop a greater threat over making some protest gesture by writing in someone who has no chance given the realities of the established system.
Another new account was made to comment in another part of this thread to try and argue against voting for an established party because that’ll never get a ranked choice vote. To that one I’ll say similar to above, making some futile gesture by voting for a non-viable candidate will have even less a chance of getting to the better system sought.
And to the other asking for evidence that the ‘genocode Joe’ mantra is likely started as an astroturfing campaign, no I don’t have some specific source, that was the point of saying it has the ‘feel of’. However, if one looks at it for a moment, who benefits by seeking to split the Democratic vote? Who has a noted history of using catchy names to denigrate ‘sleepy Joe’? The #hashtag style of things simply reeks of the kind of campaign one would hire a bunch of bot farms to spit out threads like this one in an effort to create a wedge in the more diverse party that just happens to be a threat to the existence of an oppressive ‘moral centric’ group who seek to impose their world views on the rest of society.
Along with fighting, downplaying, undermining, and trivializing anyone who sees things differently.
There are plenty of moderate and liberal voters finger wagging us to support their pro-corporate trash candidate. We don’t need you joining their ranks. What we need is for you to tell them they either need to make material compromises with us or lose to MAGA.
See, I won’t do that because these sort of ultimatums are counter productive to the larger goal. If liberal ideals are the end target then saying ‘give it now or let MAGA take over for all I care’ ends up putting everything that HAS been gained at risk to make a point. Letting the far right take control will inevitably move everyone and everything further away from the end goals making it that much more unlikely to make up that lost ground and make any progress in future administrations.
You’re blindly accepting ultimatums handed to us daily by moderate and liberals and then calling it out when we fight back. You’re trying to hold us to a different standard than liberal and moderate voters.
Again, this is a two way street. If moderates and liberals aren’t willing to make material compromises with us they are also putting “everything that has been gained at risk”.
I’ll be voting against trump
What will you achieve? Like genuinely explain the material change that your vote for a third party will achieve, other than making trump more likely to win.
the ethics of an action are not in the consequences, they are in the action itself. voting for bad people is bad.
One day you’ll grow up and understand how silly and counterproductive this is. I hope.
your personal attacks don’t undermine deontological ethics
In a perfect world this would be a good strategy, but in the real world we have to vote in the way that gets us closest to the way we want the world to be, even though it is likely going to have its own problems. I would love for a third party candidate to win the presidency, that would be a huge step, but it is not going to happen any time soon. Voting for a third party right now is not a vote against the main candidates, it’s a vote of indifference, it’s saying “I don’t care who wins”. If trump wins it will only take us further away from a country where a third party can ever win, biden may do that as well, but it won’t be by as much. I know biden isn’t a good person, but we cannot let trump win again and biden is the only one who stands a chance against him. I know biden has caused a lot of harm, but I also am very worried that the US will no longer be a safe place for me and the people I care about if trump wins.
I don’t vote as a strategy. I vote for the person I want to win
“in the real world” is a thought terminating cliche
Thinking that voting according to your ethics is totally and completely disconnected from the consequences is a privilege not everyone has. Your ideological purity might have the consequences of harming more marginalized people because in your search for an angel, you believed it was better to vote for the devil than a sinner.
Unless you’re telling me that you think your third-party candidates are absolutely perfect, you’re already voting in degrees of “less bad.” Why wouldn’t you vote for the “less bad” that is more likely to win?
I’m not advocating for purity so I don’t need perfect candidates. I’ll be happy if they just aren’t racist war criminals.
everyone can accept deontological ethics and choose to act in accordance with the categorical imperative. it takes no privilege at all.
I think Cornel West is a good person and I think Jill Stein is a good person. so I’m probably going to vote for one of them. I think Biden and Trump are bad people, so I won’t be voting for either of them.
Hell I’d settle for centerists making material compromises with the left but the mere suggestion that they do so makes them seethe. They’d rather lose to MAGA.