• bloodfart@lemmy.ml
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    18 hours ago

    Votes aren’t sacrificed, they’re cast and counted. The count is public so you know they aren’t tossed into a pit after their hearts are carved out with an obsidian knife or burned on a stake or whatever.

    I think the description of pageantry probably isn’t one to invoke when we’re staring down the barrel of three weeks of constant detailed media coverage focused on every detail.

    I also think it’s pretty vile to describe voting for a party opposed to genocide as irresponsible. Irresponsible to whomst exactly?

    A vote isn’t ceremonial or protest (and if it were protest it would be a lot cooler!).

    I just want to take a minute to examine the protest vote rhetoric for a second. People only deploy it to imply that a vote they name protest is not valuable, not effective, immature and other pejoratives.

    Why would anyone listen to the input of a person who looked at the history of the last twenty years or even the last century and not just thought “yeah, that’s immature, ineffective and worthless” but then tried to convince the people who are voting third party, overwhelmingly young people, of it?

    I am literally asking anyone who would vote for either of the two major parties or a third party to consider the party for socialism and liberation in good faith. I don’t care who it siphons votes from. If a party thinks they need third party voters then they can adopt third party platforms.

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      18 hours ago

      I don’t care who it siphons votes from.

      This obvious admission of entitlement says everything about how you have nothing to lose in this election, and therefore have no one’s best interest in mind aside from your own.

      That is of course if we are to even assume that you aren’t here to support a spoiler and disrupt an election.

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        14 hours ago

        You’re creating a strawman of me to argue against.

        It’s pretty clearly in bad faith. Why not actually respond to anything else I said instead of quoting one short sentence outside of any context and building a bunch of assumptions around it?

        It’s laughable to suggest that my vote against genocide has no one’s best interest in mind but my own.

        Your claim that I’m speaking from a place of privilege and entitlement also falls pretty flat when it’s the high and privileged place of entitlement that’s defined by rejecting genocide.

        Why not try a different line of reasoning.

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          8 hours ago

          Because there is no reasoning with you. There never was, and there never will be. You all make sure of that when you refuse to argue in good faith. So to counter- I’m not here to reason with you, I’m here to ensure people reading along can see the foolishness in your ideology.

          And based on the ratios- it seems to me that they do.

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            5 hours ago

            From your perspective what would constitute a good faith argument for me to make?

            I’ve tried to be civil and respectful even when I’m being treated with veiled insults and direct baseless accusations even when you finally end up appealing to your viewpoints popularity.

            Doesn’t this seem a little beyond parody to you?

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              5 hours ago

              Again, I’m not here to reason with you, I’m here to ensure people reading along can see the foolishness in your ideology.

              Save the false civility. I’m not buying it.