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If you’d be elated that Biden stepped down or that the convention put someone else up, join me in telling everyone that they don’t have to vote for Biden. That’s how you get the thing you want. You commit to not voting for Biden.
A vote can only ever be interpreted as blanket support for the candidate’s policies and actions. You don’t get to say “i like Biden but not his border detentions”, you get to say “Biden”. Consent to the candidates program is part of casting a vote for them and if you can’t stomach going on a permanent record as saying “I support Bidens genocide” then don’t vote for him.
I am not considering voting for trump. I decided sixteen years ago that I wouldn’t vote for Biden again and am planning on marking my ballot psl this year. As I wrote, I invoked a person considering voting for trump over Biden to illustrate how difficult it is to portray trump as a clear danger more important than an ongoing genocide.
I asked if that was who you were trying to convince because it’s either undecideds, nonvoters or me and you will never convince me to vote for Biden. You said you’re not here to convince me, so who is it, undecideds, non voters or some third group?
If you really believed that the blood of innocent people was on the hands of every American due to Biden actions you wouldn’t be in here telling people to vote for him.
If you believed that you were made a genocidare by his disgusting rhetoric and material support you’d be opposed to him. You’d be in the streets protesting or campaigning to end support to israel or any other number of other actions but instead you’re on the internet trying to advocate against doing the bare minimum to stop Biden policy that you say taints us all. Media can say all kinds of things about protest movements and the White House can deploy its press secretary to dodge questions about crackdown on antiwar actions but neither can deny a vote cast and counted.
Make your voice heard to them with the only device given you that can’t be manipulated or deepfaked or covered up. Vote third party this November.
The error in this is that you are relying on boomer who's supporting genocide to do the right thing. Be a gambler all you like, I'm not going to gamble with fascism. It's shortsighted and will get overall more people killed.
Every fucking day Biden's campaign team sends me emails asking for donations, and they send me like 8 every day. And every time I respond with imagery of dead fucking bodies in Palestine. And do you know how they've responded? They fucking haven't. They know they're losing votes because of this. They know they're losing ground because of this, because every other email from them is them complaining that they are getting out fundraised by Trump.
But they don't even give enough of a shit to have one of their lower level lackeys from their campaign team respond. They truly do not give a shit. And you're gonna trust them to do the right thing and step down? You're gonna trust genocide supporters to do the right thing?
Not so. A vote can be interpreted a million different ways. It's a number, not an essay of love. It is a statement saying "of all of these choices, X is my preference". Trying to decipher any more meaning of that requires more data which isn't captured in an election.
How do you tell the difference between a voter who chose a candidate at random versus one who chose them because they were best friends? You can't.
Sure you can, you just did. You're comparing a fully articulated thought to a vote, of course they aren't going to match.
It isn't difficult to illustrate how much larger of a danger Trump is:
Anybody fence sitting.
Why not? And it isn't just Biden's actions, it's pretty much every major political action the U.S. has ever taken since it's inception. And word of advice, if you're trying to convince people, starting from a position of "you don't ACTUALLY believe X because you said Y" is just silly, and a waste of everyone's time.
I've already explain that's not how this works. It's a two party system.
I'm trying not to get shot by our police state and widowing my disabled wife. So yeah, fuck me I guess.
I will not be handing Trump another victory, no thank you. It was a disaster the first time we decided to botch it in 2016, it's going to be even worse this time.
so tell me if ive got this right:
you don't believe the democrats will listen or can be pushed left. you don't believe they have any intention of changing course and that they have accepted that they'll lose votes because of it. you don't believe they can be trusted to make the right choices, choices you would support.
you aren't able to take direct action that would reflect your political beliefs and your clear eyed possession of a basic moral compass (i'm right there with you, my 60 hour workweek, family obligations and employer preclude me from much more than being present at events and holding signs).
but you won't reflect any of that with the action you are able to take in november, denying the democrats your vote that they have already counted out. you aren't willing to make your voice heard in the only way that they will listen to.
you posted some memes and its important to recognize that this isn't some hypothetical or thought experiment. a sitting american president is literally aiding a genocide and denying its existence at the same time. you have the opportunity to not support that action.
you can register your dissatisfaction with that in a way that cannot be deepfaked, covered up, misinterpreted or sidelined by casting a ballot for a party whose platform is "palestinian statehood and stop weapons shipments to israel".
it won't require that you put yourself in danger or that you expose yourself to attack and it doesn't take any more time than what you were already planning to do.
on the topic of how a vote can be interpreted, let me give you a concrete example that will hopefully help illustrate what i'm saying: biden received 81,283,501 votes in 2020. was the biden campaign team able to examine, for example, vote number 12,345,678 and determine if that person genuinely believed in biden's platform or if they were simply disgusted with trumps covid response?
of course they were not. votes are interpreted by campaigns as support. they are not able to interpret them as anything but that. that's not because the voters genuinely support those candidates, but because the vote only contains information about support.
that's why campaigns use a bunch of other methods to figure out what people were actually trying to express with their votes, like polls, statistical analysis and interviews, to varying degrees of accuracy.