Hey Americans, don’t vote for 3rd parties that oppose the mass murder in Gaza, because in the 2-party state, voting bad is not as bad as voting worse.

It’s only “voting bad” if you only care about this one, single issue. Compared to Biden or Trump, Harris’s platform includes a lot of things I really want, so I’m going to vote for her - not because I have to, but because I want to. Yes, I’d greatly prefer her stance on Gaza was different, but this is not a Biden situation where I’m voting for him because there’s no other option. If you refuse to vote for someone because you don’t like literally 100% of their platform, you’ll never cast another vote in your life. I’m honestly kind of tired of this “If you vote democrat, you’re supporting genocide!” stance; it’s tired, reductionist, and not helpful to anyone. Even if you convince enough people to vote third party that Trump wins, does that help Gaza? No, it makes the situation worse.

If you refuse to vote for someone because you don’t like literally 100% of their platform, you’ll never cast another vote in your life.

Even if I supported 99% of Harris’s agenda, if the remaining 1% is genocide, that’s gonna be a problem for me.

There are two possible outcomes in this election. Neither are good for Gaza, but one is worse. Voting third party (if you’d normally vote democrat) is indirectly supporting Trump, who is the worse of the two options for Gaza.

Voting 3rd party to try and make a point is not helping the situation.

If you want to actually make a difference, get out there and protest, write letters to politicians, make phone calls - make sure they know what you want. People voting 3rd party doesn’t do any good if they don’t know why those people are voting 3rd party.

They could look back on this in 4 years, see a lot of third party voters, and assume it’s because Harris isn’t white, or because she’s a woman, or because of any number of other reasons. The only way they’ll know what your opinion is on this matter is if you tell them.

Writing letters to politicians and making phone calls isn’t going to do shit, they only answer the money and we don’t have it.

So it’ll do as much as screaming into the void on Lemmy - got it!

Well, you have to vote for Harris, protests are ineffective, as is posting on lemmy.

Ever notice that the only option is always stfu?

Protests have been getting a ton of media attention. I wouldn’t say they’re ineffective at all. I’d say they’re the most effective thing you could be doing.

Yeah, just look at how that needle has moved from “unconditional support for genocide” to “unconditional support for genocide.”

It’s getting it in the public eye, though. That’s something. Politicians would much rather it was just swept under the rug, and the high-profile protests are making sure that doesn’t happen.

It may be getting in the public eye, but when it’s pointed out to liberals, they start chanting things like four more years or USA USA.