• Optional@lemmy.world
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    22 days ago

    I had a long chat with you about this recently. And I don’t think I said “screw you fascist” or “who needs a plan?” And I think I stated it pretty clearly

    That’s true, that was not you. We did have a good chat and iirc you had voted for Dems up until Harris? I forget but you weren’t against voting, you just had the single issue that defined all others.

    Not voting for them until they stop arming a genocide is a perfectly clear way of staking that position. If literally no votes are held back for that modicum of decency then they have absolutely no reason to change.

    Yeah, but that’s where we are now and it’s very very bad. I disagree that change of the kind you’re looking for will come about through throwing the election to avowed fascists, but it is at least a defined position with room to move forward, which is a lot more than some of the other intransigent non-voters.

    • brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca
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      22 days ago

      I think “throwing the election” is overstating it. Harris lost votes because she decided to continue arming a genocide. The democrats know that…if they didn’t know it before (doubt), they do now. Their position cost them votes. That’s what their post-mortem says, according to Axios anyway. So if they don’t change course, they’re choosing to have fewer votes. They really really should not risk choosing to have fewer votes.