• flandish@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    because harris supports genocide, which outranks all theory about how outcomes happen with other solutions for voting. why were you ok voting for genocide?

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      2 months ago

      why were you ok voting for genocide?

      Because the alternative was more genocide.

      I don’t pretend that my vote in 2020 for Biden was anything less than a vote for an admin which unambiguously was going to (and did) support Israel in-line with the policy of previous administrations (and, unfortunately, the vast majority of the American population) - which is repugnant and in support of a genocidal ethnostate. But that vote was also against the immensely more Israel-positive Trump administration which proposed MORE support for genocide than the Biden administration did.

      We bear the sin of supporting the lesser evil, because not supporting the lesser evil, when there is only a choice between evils, is in support of the greater evil.

      The price of citizenship is responsibility. The price of citizenship is the demand to make imperfect decisions in concert with an imperfect population which will always result in some form of atrocious outcome. The price of citizenship is guilt. If you want to be innocent of political responsibility, well, that’s why oligarchies and autocracies are so intermittently popular.

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          2 months ago

          Glad to be of interest. Ultimately, I’m of the opinion that no one should beat themselves up too much about their prior action or lack of action - we can’t change the past, and most of us are little specks in nations of millions, and a world of billions. All we can do is try to work for a better future.