• @[email protected]
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    -1422 days ago

    A lack of endorsement for a thing =! endorsement for the opposite thing

    Oh, when there are only two possible choices, it very much is, whether or not you want to confront that. If there is an infant drowning in an ankle-deep pool in front of you, doing anything other than saving the infant is endorsing its death.

    Before you is a very simple and very easy choice - fascism, or non-fascism. Yet your kind reject non-fascism, every single time. Curious.

    • archomrade [he/him]OP
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      922 days ago

      Oh, when there are only two possible choices

      Actually in this context there’s at least 4:

      • vote for a candidate AND endorse voting for the candidate
      • don’t vote for a candidate AND don’t endorse voting for the candidate
      • vote for a candidate AND don’t endorse voting for the candidate
      • don’t vote for a candidate AND endorse voting for the candidate

      Nobody has actually ‘voted’ for a candidate yet, all anyone has done thus far is endorse or not endorse voting for a candidate. Just as a reminder:

      I’ll vote for harm reduction if it comes down to it

      • @[email protected]
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        -221 days ago

        Only because of the electoral college you’re entirely wrong here.

        There are only two choices.

        1. Biden gets to 270 ec votes
        2. He doesn’t and trump is appointed by Congress or gets to 270

        There is no other option in the long run.

      • @[email protected]
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        -1322 days ago

        Actually in this context there’s at least 4:

        All of which boil down to “Try to rescue the infant” or “Varying levels of letting the infant drown or hoping someone else will spontaneously see the infant and rescue them in your stead”

            • archomrade [he/him]OP
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              822 days ago

              And me voicing criticism of democrats is me letting democracy drown?

              I’m just trying to get you to be more direct with your metaphor is all.

              • @[email protected]
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                -1022 days ago

                And me voicing criticism of democrats is me letting democracy drown?

                From “I won’t endorse anyone else voting Biden!” to “Voicing criticism”. Funny how your position changes now that you’re called out. Classic Motte and Bailey.

                • archomrade [he/him]OP
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                  922 days ago

                  “I won’t endorse voting for a lesser evil so long as the lesser evil has opportunity to be less evil

                  “lol mOtTe AnD bAiLeY”

                  • @[email protected]
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                    -1122 days ago

                    “I won’t endorse voting for a lesser evil so long as the lesser evil has opportunity to be less evil”

                    Yes, as pointed out, that’s a convenient excuse to not endorse anti-fascism until it lines up perfectly with your view. But then you backtrack to ‘Actually I’m just making criticism’, which is quite distinctly contradictory.

                    But hey, since when are fascists internally consistent?