@shywoof.bsky.social: Kind of wild how Republicans being in every way worse than Democrats has caused many of us to create a literal double standard where they ignore evil by Republicans, from whom they expect it, but not from Democrats, who are expected to be better, and then decide they're the same so why bother voting

Kind of wild how Republicans being in every way worse than Democrats has caused many of us to create a literal double standard where they ignore evil by Republicans, from whom they expect it, but not from Democrats, who are expected to be better, and then decide they're the same so why bother voting

They're not the same. They're not even remotely close to the same. Even on the thing Democrats are worst about, supporting the genocidal Israeli regime, Republicans have vowed to be worse about! It's not some principled opposition to supporting Israel's war to not vote against the Republicans.

I don't like the two party system, but it exists, and will exist for the foreseeable future. Not voting for Biden will not dismantle the two party system. The two party system is enforced by the Electoral College and our FPTP system. It will be a hard struggle to fix that. Ignoring it solves nothing

You don't like it. I get it. Really, I genuinely get it. But not voting for Biden does not help the Gazans. It just means throwing more people in front of the oncoming trolley: LGBTQ Americans, BIPOC Americans, poor and disabled Americans, Ukrainians, more. Not voting only ever helps the enemy.

Literally just a little while after typing all that out, look what pops up in the news feed. "They're the same" no the hell they are not. apnews.com/article/bide...

Biden pardons potentially thousands of ex-service members convicted under now-repealed gay sex banapnews.com President Joe Biden is pardoning potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex.

That's fucking awesome. Thousands of good people will qualify for tricare and maybe some additional training tuition

actually a nationwide non-electral college system would probably enforce a two parties worse because it would take so much money to run nationwide and the third parties can't even approach

It's already like that. I don't see how ranked choice would make it more expensive to run.

A great summary of a problem without a practical solution

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