If there's a toddler about to walk into traffic and you choose to keep swiping on tinder or whatever instead of helping the kid, that kid's death is still on you.
Hey kiddo, instead of deflecting to Palestine, how about you explain how either this voting instance is different than the analogy I've given or admit that you'd be fine letting the kid die because of whatever.
If you're going to be incorrectly smug about voting third party, try answering a reasonable question about it.
No one is deflecting you just dont agree with the reasons and are having trouble accepting them thats a you problem not a me problem.
Sadly you're all shit at math and think because you watched gcp greys video you have some magical insight into rational voting.
When in reality you dont. Rationality is defined by the goals of the person making the decision. My goal is to not enable a genocide, 3rd party is the only option for that. Will i be able to stop it alone ? Of course not. But that isnt the goal.
You're welcome to continue supporting harris, despite her love of genocide. Thats a you decision, and i dont know your goals/situation. But im not the one making posts about Russian trolls to dellude myself about how deeply unpopular harris is. Thats strictly a you problem.
Plenty of my friends are voting harris because they live in red states, their goals are different and thats okay! I fully support their decision and goals and my decision doesnt negatively impact theirs. But lets be clear none of them like or support her.
You see you're just confused. you think that the 3rd party vote represents the child being run over. it doesn't it represents the attempt to save the child. remember harris and trump are both genocidal that child is gonna get wrecked from their cars.
lol, nice try to spin out of this.
The child in the street represents Palestineans after the election. Maybe some will still die but I damn well promise you more will die with trump.
What you are doing by voting third party is actually pretty much like complaining on your phone about this kid about to die, it doesn't help the kid, doesn't help anyone except for make you feel like you somehow did something even though more kids die because you couldn't be bothered to vote for the lesser of two evils.
It's selfish, silly and harms the folks whom you pretend to care about.
Spin Right round baby. Just because you're comfortable supporting a genocide doesnt mean we all are. Basically every other issue you're trying to place harris as the defender of she literally has no power to directly influence except veto powers.
Want lgbt+ rights nationally? Thats congress. What them now in your area? Thats local elections. Those issues not being resolved are due to the voters in those areas.
Funny that you want safety for those groups but not arabs. Take your nonsense else where.
Do you legitimately think trump will be better for the Palestinians/anyone living in the Middle East?
no, I think both are equally bad for Palestinians/middle east. genocide means dead. there is no coming back from that. its happening right now. You understand this right? Harris has promised it'll continue. her own words.
I’m just trying to understand how you can be so confused.
I'm not confused. both candidates have gone on the record for genocide explicitly. the only difference is harris tells you she wants peace while handing israel the missiles.
Do you know what the definition of insanity is? doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results. you keep voting for genocidal nut jobs, guess what you're going to get? All I'm doing is telling you not to be fucking surprised when you get a genocide because you wouldn't stand up.
genocide means dead. there is no coming back from that.
Holy damn, is your entire position based on you not understanding people are exaggerating?!? I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
What percentage of Palestinians do you think will be around after either presidency? (I mean, even if the PLO is undercounting by half, that's 100,000 dead Palestineans in one year. Given there are more than 5 million Palestineans, well I'd say you can do the math but I'm not sure of that, so to give you a hand, that would be 50 more years of conflict at this pace before there are no more...)
And if you are actually a parody account (please be a parody, please be a parody) goddamn, well played!
When talking about genocide germans should be the first to shut the fuck up and listen.
Dear mod, please consider your conflict of interest policy before deleting this comment. As I am openly vocal about american, german and british complicty in genocide, please consider your own bias before taking any action if you are from these country. You might be legally liable for genocide denialism.
What's trumps excuse? What's your excuse? What's God's excuse?
I'm tired of all this. I take full responsibility. If I had done more this tragedy could have been averted. I'm sorry to those who have suffered because of my inadequacy. Render what ever judgment you will on me and in the future, if there is one for scum like me, I will try to do better.
who cares? he never had a chance at my vote to begin with for a large number of reasons. we can just add it to the pile of shitty things trump is okay doing. but we already knew he was willing to commit genocide. this is a surprise to no one who as paid attention.
What’s God’s excuse?
dunno if i could find him i'd ask him.
What’s your excuse?
for what? not supporting harris? I've been very clear on this: genocide.
I’m tired of all this.
so am I friend, so am I. I'm not the one running around trying to convince people to vote for a particular candidate by shaming others using intellectually dishonest claims of 'helping trump', 'both parties were going genocide, pick the lesser evil', etc.
I want people to get off their ass and vote. I didnt vote for harris or trump, I voted down ballot. I'm also not in a swing state or a state with shitty womens rights. harris is going to win my state regardless. That being said the liberals running around spouting nonsense about helping trump when its clearly and demonstrably not true is going to lead to people not voting at all.
And that my friend is why I call this shit out. because they might have voted down ticket regardless which can only help the situation. and quite frankly im happy to treat people with the same level of vitriol that they treat others. Now I will continue campaigning against genocide and getting ranked choice done, please volunteer so people can stop being asses to each other.
who cares? he never had a chance at my vote to begin with for a large number of reasons. we can just add it to the pile of shitty things trump is okay doing. but we already knew he was willing to commit genocide. this is a surprise to no one who as paid attention.
It kind of matters. Just a little, don't you think. Don't you think the openly fascist candidate matters, sorta, kinda, just a little bit? You know your vote alone doesn't decide the outcome of the election, right?
for what? not supporting harris? I’ve been very clear on this: genocide.
Let me figure this one out. Your non support for Harris has discluded you from responsibility for the death of a child in a foreign nation? How about this, I don't support Harris either. I'll still vote for her.
do you have a point? what do you think I actually care about? its clearly not trump. yes person w/ the most votes wins.
let me ask you this, which is sadder: the fascist candidate or the one who can't beat the fascist candidate because shes entirely unappealing to americans?
What do you want out of this conversation? I want you to call your reps and tell them genocide isnt okay. maybe get you to donate your time to getting RCV passed in your state. Ideally anything that gets people to stop bitching about 3rd party voters who most likely are going to vote down ballot for democrats. which if trump wins controlling the senate/house will be critical.
How does who you vote for in the presidential election promote RCV? How does it reduce genocide? The action you promote advances neither goal. I will grant that if you're in a secure state, your vote will have little chance to affect the presidential election, but it also won't serve as a wakeup call to the winners of the election that FPTP needs to go.
You seem very confused. My point is people are pissy about the election because they're absolutely petrified of trump and are acting like 3rd party votes have any impact one way or another on who wins (they dont).
RCV is related because it removes the spoiler effect making these entire conversations disappear. Which i can only count as a good thing because the conversation is stupid and most people are not capable of having a comprehensive understanding of how our election structure interacts with fptp. They see cgp's video and think they have an understanding but completely ignore the interplay between congress, the president, the electoral college, down ballot effects.
I'd say you're the confused one. None of what I said contradicts anything in your response, and nothing in your response addresses any of the questions I asked. I can only assume that's because the answer is obvious and you don't want to acknowledge it.
How does who you vote for in the presidential election promote RCV?
I directly answered this. it doesn't but its related to the conversation because of how it will the environment.
How does it reduce genocide?
it doesn't. but it would get idiots to shut up about non-existent spoilers. and indirectly might let them actually vote with their conscience on genocide instead of their fear of trump.
I love that they think it's some kind of gotcha. "My party is doing genocide, but...". If I ever meet somebody who's openly voting for genocide Id spit on his face. No but.