LogFAQs > #980113648

Cemith posted...

No one is preventing a genocide by abstaining, I'll fucking tell you that much. If anyone claims to abstain because they care about Gaza, they are fucking lying to themselves. They don't give a fuck about Gaza. Why would they? They can't be fucked to do the absolute bare minimum to prevent similar atrocities happening domestically. You expect me to believe that they care about Palestinians overseas? Give me a fucking break. I can claim I hate illegal dogfighting till I'm blue in the face, but saying that while I'm actively breeding and abusing dogs kinda muddies the message, don't you think?

I don't advocate abstaining. I've made that clear in every topic. But the irreducible truth is that some people are not going to leave their home, hop in their car and pull the lever for someone currently facilitating a genocide in November. You must grapple with that reality and your current approach won't change it. The exact problem that blackpills people is that there's no option not to facilitate a genocide. That's not a system that inspires participation.

You're gonna have to tell my Jewish and Palestinian friends who are organizing relief efforts, trying to evacuate family, and organizing protests across the US to pressure the government and other institutions that they actually don't care about Gaza because they don't feel comfortable voting for the guy supplying the bombs killing their family. They'll be surprised to hear that they don't care and that what they're doing is equivalent to breeding fighting dogs!

But please do tell me how Trump winning is so much better for the people that feel for Gaza.

No one has said this. Trump would be worse. That's why some of us are doing everything we can to stop Biden from doing anything that could make him lose and others are trying to shout those people down and get Biden to just bulldoze through and hope for the best.

Please.

I'm fucking begging you.

I'm going to vote against Trump for the sake of democracy. Not something some on this forum can say.

Here's the rub. The election is a binary. One side will win. One side will lose. If you facilitate the loss to fascism, you are just as culpable as those Maga psychopaths. I'm sorry you needed Big Uncle Cemith to tell you the reality of the US Election System, but here it is.

Smugness seems to be far more important to you than anything else. Biden will be responsible for blackpilling his own base if it comes to that. But I don't think that's actually what will happen. I think Biden will squeak by due to the collapse of Republican infrastructure and approval and the genocide will continue and that's nothing to be proud of, even if it's better for us.