• RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
    797·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • xor
      171·
      9 months ago

      well it’s don’t just vote for the lesser of two evils…
      but i don’t remember anyone saying biden was the only thing needed to stop the arming of israel…

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
        725·
        9 months ago

        I said that.

        Biden can solely stop the arming of israel by declaring they are committing human rights violations which would prevent arms exports.

    • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      You don’t get it because you thought about it. This account seems to a mis/disinformation account. Remember to call out and report these accounts.

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
      28·
      9 months ago

      In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.

      Hannah Arendt

      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
        10·
        9 months ago

        Sadly this doesn’t take into account a two party voting system, and is completely wrong. They know they chose evil.

        The weakness is Americans sitting on their ass, never peotesting.

          • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
            81·
            9 months ago

            Nobody asked for “trust”. Just try to take a second to understand what the two party system is or even how the german system works. Keep cherry-picking info like you live in nazi germany, that just makes it easy to see you have no idea what you’re talking about and are repeating popular (trash) arguments lmao

              • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
                3·
                9 months ago

                Did you just try to insult me for being on lemmy… on lemmy?

                You have no way of knowing who I am or what I have published, you’re just making stuff up cherry-picking info that “makes sense to you”.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            9 months ago

            Two things. Influential does not necessarily mean correct. Second, your use of it is not correct regardless. While I would agree with her in general. Your depiction of the situation is a bit of a hyperbolic caricature. And not the reality of the situation.

            We would all, myself included, do well to remember not to alienate those with whom we actually agree a lot with. Change comes with building coalitions and gaining allies. Not virtue signaling, or pyrrhic dogmatic victories.

            So people need to accept the protest votes here in the primary. But those protest voting now need to be ready to do everything they can to make sure trump and the Republicans don’t win come November. Because anyone who feels virtue signaling is worth more than the extra suffering Republicans absolutely will cause. Isn’t much better than the Republicans themselves. As an unattributed philosopher once said. All it takes for evil to triumph is for a good men to do nothing.

    • olivebranch@lemmy.caOP
      310·
      9 months ago

      Well that is kinda what the post is about. You can do both, the meme says don’t JUST vote.

    • arymandias@feddit.de
      313·
      9 months ago

      There are two arguments I personally find persuasive. First, are you okay with having voted for a candidate that knowingly supported a genocide with words and with weapons (because it looks more and more like this is / will be the case). Second, what other leverage do you have over the Democratic party. Let them know that they can not win with such a historically shitty candidate, lick your wounds and try again next election.

      And if you think Trump is literally Hitler, please do some research and look up what happened after Germany voted for the lesser of two evils (Hindenburg).

      • Limonene@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        I am NOT ok with Biden. I’m going to vote for him anyway, because in the next term he will be less bad for Gaza than Trump would be. Even taking into account Biden’s current genocide.

      • Schmoo@slrpnk.net
        5·
        9 months ago

        what other leverage do you have over the Democratic party.

        Voting is but one of many political actions you can take, and is therefore better considered as a small part of a larger political strategy. The best strategy for a leftist in this election is to vote uncommitted in the primaries and for Biden in the general - to send a message to the Dems while also staving off a more rapid decline to neofascism - while spending most of your time and energy engaging in direct action (i.e. protests).

        And if you think Trump is literally Hitler, please do some research and look up what happened after Germany voted for the lesser of two evils (Hindenburg).

        If I were in Germany in 1932 I would probably have voted for Ernst Thälmann, but the German electoral system is not the US electoral system. We have no 3rd option, and that is not something that can be addressed either by voting or abstaining. To address this will require direct action.