• JimSamtanko@lemm.eeOP
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    You realize that it’s not just Biden we’re voting for. It’s his entire cabinet. And if you don’t think they can or even have done anything worth reelection- then I guess choosing against your best interest is quite possibly your only option.

    I do hope though, that you find time to enjoy all the benefits that come with losing democracy. Up to and including the continued suffering and genocide of Palestine.

    Because that is really what’s on the table, right? I mean. You’re essentially trying to hold democracy as hostage in order to appear as if you actually give a shit about a place you probably couldn’t have pointed to on a map less than a year ago?

    And even knowing that your bit Donald “finish the job” Trump is going to essential turn Palestine into a crater… you’ll be fine as long as it wasn’t Biden that did it.

    Right?

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      You’re holding me hostage! “Vote the way I tell you or the government is going to kill you.”

      I will not be intimidated.

      I’m trans in a red state. I am going to die if Trump gets elected and if Biden is the nominee Trump will be the President.

      Replacing Biden is now life or death for me.

      So I have to do this. There is no other choice. Shikata ga nai. I’m going to put my fucking life on the line to stop Biden from getting Trump elected, because this is the last chance. The Convention is coming. Do or die.

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        What a fucking weird take.

        “I’m going to die if Trump is elected, so I dare not vote against him!”

        If I didn’t know better, I’d think you were entirely full of shit. Good thing I know better, right?

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        Sorry, no. THIS is the dumbest thing you’ve said in this thread.

        “I’m going to die if this party doesn’t get enough votes!”

        “I’m not going to vote for this party!”

        Good lord.

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            I do want him to be replaced, actually. I think it’s ludicrous that he decided to run again, and that the party is going along with it. But withholding my vote in the general election when they inevitably line up behind him as a way of showing my dissatisfaction with their decision would be the dumbest thing I could possibly do.

            You said it yourself: Republicans in power very well could be disastrous for you. The solution, then, is to vote blue, regardless of who they pick. Your plan to not vote in protest is sheer lunacy.

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                Do you really not understand how cause and effect work? Is that the problem? How in the name of fuck would you withholding your vote in November in any way affect the DNC’s decision in August? Do you believe that posting your ultimatum on lemmy will move the needle in the minds of the convention-goers??

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                    I’m still unconvinced that any actual thinking at all, magic or otherwise, was applied here.

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                  I’m pledging to withhold my vote now, and if I don’t follow through with my threat then it’s hollow

                  Do you not understand how threats work? A threat that won’t be followed through on is worthless.

                  (also nothing anyone says on lemmy matters, posting is just for fun and a way to make myself really mad lol)

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                    I’m pledging to withhold my vote now, and if I don’t follow through with my threat then it’s hollow

                    It’s not hollow. It’s completely meaningless.

                    Do you not understand how threats work?

                    That’s very funny coming from you, because you so clearly do not. In order for a threat to work, people have to actually realize that you’re making a threat. Do you have a public presence? Any significant pull with anybody? A large and committed fanbase? Or are you just some idiotic nobody that nobody gives a fuck about yelling into the wind, like the rest of us? I very much suspect it’s the last of these, which means that you’re basically doing the equivalent of whispering your christmas list into a corner and then getting mad when Santa doesn’t deliver you what you asked for.