HeavenlyPossumSo if someone wanted to vote for “a society in which snipers are not deployed against student protests,” which candidate should they vote for?
This toot has made some people really angry at me. But no one has been able to provide an answer other than “no one.” So you’d think they’d be more angry about the lack of a candidate who can or would allow people to exercise their most basic rights rather than at me for pointing it out. But hey this is the internet so 🤷♂️
sortius@HeavenlyPossum I try to explain this to people. If voting for either of the major parties in your country yields the same results, maybe stop fucking voting for them, even if you aren't lucky enough to have preferential/proportional/etc voting.
If you're going to "throw your vote away" on nothing changing, might as well do it with a clear fucking conscience and vote for a decent human
WovenTales@sortius @HeavenlyPossum I really like that formulation, thanks! Of course, it doesn't do anything for people who think the choices are "fascism" and "a bad take or two but generally decent" and that we're just being stubborn by letting those bad takes overwhelm the relative benefit of the latter, so I'm somewhat pessimistic about its ability to turn the tide of a debate, but it's a good one for those of us who are already disinclined toward either major party.