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lesser of two evils (lemmy.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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[–] ravheim 105 points 9 months ago (117 children)

21 day old account. Most posts are about not voting in the election to support Palestine. While what's happening in Gaza is genocide, this account smells like a Russian shill trying to spread FUD in the form of memes. The key part of diplomacy is not running around telling everyone what's being discussed in private. We shouldn't hear about potential deals until they are decided on. If Trump wins, he'll do the same thing Israel is currently doing to eliminate Hamas - which is to go through the Palestinian people.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

After you wrote this comment, OP made a concern troll post on the Men's Liberation community.

You were totally on point about the FUD thing.

[–] ravheim 18 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeah... I'm only surprised that they shifted tactics so quickly. Fear, Unrest, and Doubt are the key tactics in Russian Disinfo campaigns. There's an old axiom: If someone is trying to make you feel strongly about something, then they are trying to sell you something. In this case, OP Is trying to piss people off in order to convince them of propaganda and Russian talking points.

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[–] RedditWanderer 75 points 9 months ago (28 children)

I don't get this meme.

Do both, vote for the lesser evil and demand change by protesting. Those are not mutually exclusive concepts. You are definitely not going to get change by not voting, all you are doing is allowing the more evil to win and prevent you from protesting ever again.

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[–] TheBananaKing 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Except that the lesser evil takes your vote as explicit support of everything they're doing, and will claim it as a clear mandate, we'd like to stop but our hands are tied the voters wanted this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (8 children)

And then other way to look at it is that by not voting, you’re saying you’re completely fine with the choices and are willing to allow others to chose for you.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

100k people just voted uncommitted against Biden in the Michigan primary, I think they are getting the message

[–] Linkerbaan 5 points 9 months ago

Start putting some pressure on Biden so he will work for that vote. He still has a few months of Genocide to go before the election.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (11 children)

… and how?

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