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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By inaction you allowed a worse evil.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

By allowing Democrats to get away with their "lesser evil" sales pitch, you guaranteed what you incorrectly perceive as my inaction.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, not inaction. Willful ignorance.

[–] 7101334@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok: By allowing Democrats to get away with their “lesser evil” sales pitch, you guaranteed what you incorrectly perceive as my willful ignorance.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Nothing incorrectly perceived about it. You willfully choose to be ignorant. The world moves on with you whether you choose to participate in it or not.

You want to try to hide behind this singular position as if abstaining from voting solves or improves anything. It doesn't. You choose to live in a fantasy whereby your abstinence leaves you without blame. If anything, you and others like you become just as callused and evil as those in power. You all helped put them there because you all did nothing to stop it. You saw a bad option and a horrendous option and behaved childishly and gave up.

You don't care what actually happens to anyone. You don't actually care if anyone lives or dies, because if you did, you'd have done something to slow or stop the current administration/regime from gaining any power at all.