I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home.

Not voting isn’t going to stop the genocide in Gaza. The US will continue to funnel them arms no matter which candidate wins this November. Trump practically campaigns on how much he hates the Jews and he’s publicly told Israel to “finish up their war”. He’ll also make life a living hell for anyone who isn’t a straight cisgender male back here at home.

A vote for a candidate is not an endorsement of them or their policies, it’s a statement that you like their policies more than the other guy’s, and “sticking it to liberals” and “refusing to support genocide” (that’s not what voting for Biden is doing, by the way – a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide and a vote for neither is an endorsement of both) is not more important than keeping the furthest right politician America has ever seen out of office.

How incredibly privileged do you have to be to see an entire national election as what will happen in the Middle East and ignore Trump’s campaign promises to wipe transgender Americans off the map, and further, to not realize that the same thing will happen in the Middle East regardless of which candidate wins?

I hate Biden as much as every other leftist here. But I’ll still vote for him because Trump is worse. If there’s a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too.

  • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
    35·
    8 months ago

    Why are you trying to pressure people to vote for the guy facilitating genocide, instead of for Biden to stop facilitating genocide?

    The only explanations I can come up with are either that you support what he is doing, or on some level, you understand we have no influence on policy and so trying to get Biden to do things that will get people to vote for him is a waste of time.

    This same shit happened when Obama did fuckall about Bush’s policies and endlessly compromised. Of course, the voters were blamed when Obama lost the house and senate, and in 2016 too.

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      32·
      8 months ago

      OP explicitly states a vote for Biden isnt a vote for genocide.

      Regardless, Trump would be an absolute nightmare for the Palestinians…so your argument is not in good faith and just want to invoice emotional responses.

      OP recognizes the system there is right now in the US is badly flawed, but since nobody did shit about fixing it these last 4 years you have a choice of pinching your nose and swallowing bad medicine or never have a voice again.

      • Thief_of_Crows@lemm.ee
        16·
        8 months ago

        Well in that case, I’m explicitly stating that a vote for Biden is a vote for a dog taking a crap right in your mouth…

        That’s not how it works, if you vote for the guy doing a genocide, you are voting for genocide.

        I am highly doubtful trump would be worse. All his rhetoric is about ending the conflict, and he was significantly more peaceful than every other president dating back to Reagan at least. He got us out of Afghanistan and didn’t start a new war, unlike every other president since Reagan.

        • HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          6·
          8 months ago

          Thinking Trump won’t be worse just shows your privilege. There are thousands of immigrants that can’t survive being deported, millions of women that will lose their rights, and countless lgbt people that might get murdered.

          Just because your life is unaffected by who is in power doesn’t mean you can throw every body else under the bus.

      • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
        13·
        8 months ago

        Israel is already getting all they want from the US, you really can’t call a side participating in ethnic cleansing a lesser evil, we’re already at 100% evil.

        But this misses the point, to even be posting this shows that you have no hope that Biden will stop the genocide. If you expected the democrats to listen to the people whose votes they need, you’d be telling us he’s gonna do the thing we all want and stop the genocide any day now, and begging the dems to not fuck this up.

        • Che Banana@beehaw.org
          11·
          8 months ago

          You can make the same argument as a christofascist about abortion, they consider all forms of birth control genocide and are single issue voters.

          Politicians, like corporations, will never change unless forced to, I really dont expect anything from the democratic party except the status quo until enough incremental changes at the local and state level finally start pulling the countey back to the left…the other option is absolutely worse.

          Being a single issue voter is ridiculous, but you do you.

          • alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml
            5·
            8 months ago

            The christofascists’s representatives fall over each other trying to show how christian and fascist they are, implement the policies the christofascists want by any means, and in return the christofacists vote for them.

            The democrats either do fuckall or what the republicans want, and then tell us better things aren’t possible or it’s our fault for not voting harder.

            Guess which one is a more effective electoral strategy?