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[–] Passerby6497 3 points 5 months ago

If a significant portion of the electorate did that, Biden would be on the phone this minute applying all possible pressure to stop what is happening.

Lol, do you even know how elections work? If a significant portion of the electorate voted 3rd party like you advocate, trump would be president elect and all the pressure Biden could muster is worthless without going full J6.

Instead they are playing chicken with your vote.

And here you play chicken with their lives by pushing tactics that will get republicans elected because that's how FPTP electoral politics work.

Again, the original issue I raised is that it's cruel to quote a man lamenting the fact that he and others like him didn't do enough soon enough to stop the Holocaust. That same behavior is happening right now.

If you're talking about the election, voting 3rd party is just you feeling good about doing nothing while actively sabotaging the cause you profess to support.

Also, how cruel is it to profess to care about the plight of those suffering while advocating tactics that will only increase suffering? Because that's what you're doing, and it's insane how people do that and pretend they're on the right side.

I'd bet you don't have any Palestinian friends, but if you do, please let them know I'm the one who's privileged and see what they say.

That you are privileged and your tactics are actually harming the cause? You're not suffering the result of whomever gets into office, so you don't have to care about how hard they get bombed while you sit in safety and virtue signal about how moral you are while allowing those into power who want to finish the job.

But hey, I'm not the one who is advocating tactics that will objectively make their lives worse, so I guess I'm just some stooge because I actually understand how electoral politics works.