As the title states I am confused on this matter. The way I see it, the USA has a two party system and in the next few weeks they’re either going to have Trump or Harris as president, come inauguration day. With this in mind doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

Giving your vote to an independent or worse not voting at all, just gives more of a chance for Trump to win the election and then who knows what crazy stuff he will allow, or encourage, Israel to get away with.

I really don’t get the logic. As sure nobody wants to vote for a party allowing these heinous crimes to be committed, but given you’re getting one of them shouldn’t you be voting for the one that will be the least horrible of the two.

Please don’t come at me with pro-Israeli rhetoric as this isn’t the post for that, I’m asking about why people would make such choices and I’m not up for debate on the Middle East, on this post, you can DM me for that.

Edit: Bedtime here now so will respond to incoming comments in the morning, love starting the day with an inbox full 😊.

  • ZephrC@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    Funny how many people on Lemmy totally claim they’re totally taking action without ever having a single one of them actually saying what that action might be. I’m sure you’re totally doing lots and not just calling people who disagree with you names on an obscure website though.

    • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
      31·
      11 days ago

      Protesting, mutual aid networks, volunteering for charities aiding the Palestinians. I’ve helped raise two million for unrwa, before Israel and the US started slaughtering them.

      Voting for genocide does not help the victims of genocide, current or future.

      • ZephrC@lemm.ee
        53·
        11 days ago

        Sure, sure. I totally believe you. All this just happened to happen completely disconnected from anything on Lemmy, but as soon as someone calls you out suddenly you’ve always been a saint. I totally buy it. Totally.

        • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          I’m not a saint, I’m a generic human doing the bare minimum. If you think anything in that previous comment was brag worthy, you’re objectively bad at being a human and I’m not sure you can be helped. You’re a bad person.

          • ZephrC@lemm.ee
            33·
            11 days ago

            Pfft, I’m not the one telling anyone that wanting less people to die is supporting genocide and claiming to have raised two million dollars on the basis of trust me bro.

            • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
              31·
              11 days ago

              Yes let me completely dox myself to a random government supporting person that thinks genocide is necessary. That always ends well, fed.

              • ZephrC@lemm.ee
                33·
                11 days ago

                Sure, you totally raised millions of dollars for a cause that the government is opposed to, but they totally don’t know who you are. Sure, dude. And yeah, harm reduction is totally the same thing as supporting the government. There can be no disagreement. Either you agree with every word I say or you’re a fed. Those are the only options.

                Man, Lemmy sure is a shithole where leftists go when they know they’ve failed but want an echo chamber to tell them they’re totally right about everything.

                • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
                  32·
                  11 days ago

                  There is no lesser evil in genocide.

                  Period.

                  Your life, your rights, are not worth genocide, period.