• Jack@lemmy.ca
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    14 days ago
    • 77 million voted for Trump in 2024.
    • 75 million voted for Harris.
    • 89 million didn’t vote.

    I think some of the 89 million didn’t vote because being actively complicit in genocide is an ethical line they will never cross.

    I think the big difference between those who are prepared to vote for evil, and those who will never vote for genocidal parties; is how far they think ahead. Those who only look at the next 4 years, will keep voting for the lesser evil and make the world more evil even if they win; while those who look at least at the next 7 generations, will never vote for such evil parties.

    For the Democrats to get votes from the non-voters, they have to convince them that crossing the genocide-line is OK, and that causing a mass extinction event more than 4 years from now should be ignored.

    For the Greens to get some of those non-voters, they have to convince them it’s better to do the right thing and be on the losing side for a while, because there’s a chance (like in first-past-the-post UK, where the 8th biggest party, the Greens, now regularly poll better than both of the duopoly parties (Tories and Labour]) that others will eventually vote for the ethical party if they see more people doing it.

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      14 days ago

      Inaction is a choice just as much as action. If you didn’t vote, then you are just as complicit in any ongoing genocide, or the war in Iran as if you voted.

      Now get off you stupid high horse and actually make a difference.

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      14 days ago

      Killary ein the popular vote in 16 and she’s an insanely evil genocidal miscreant.