Oops, that damn goalpost keeps moving around! Better tie it down!

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't realize I'm a different person.

The two thoughts I hold are "on election day, it's self-gratifying not to vote for the outcome with the highest lows, raising the floor" and "before and after election day, do whatever you can to make the lives of politicians who fail miserable and support better candidates, up to and including civil unrest"

Not voting is categorically ineffective. There may be plenty of things more effective than voting, but not voting isn't one of them.

People love to present this scenario like it's a lever with three positions: candidate A, candidate B, or civil unrest. But it's not. It's one switch with two buttons (candidate a, candidate b) and another separate button for civil unrest. You can do both

You are cherry-picking only the things I said in this thread to try to crucify me for being on-topic. That's disingenuous bullshit and you fucking know it.

And besides that...

Not the genocide supporting Democrats who refused to stop supporting fascist Netanyahu.

What part of "of fucking course the Democrats shouldn’t have been doing that" did you not understand? I did, in fact, criticize genocide-supporting Democrats right in the very comment you replied to!

And moreover, EVERY SINGLE OTHER COURSE OF ACTION SUPPORTED FASCIST NETANYAHU EVEN MORE.

You have decided to spend your energy not attacking the corrupt shitbags, but the people who are stuck STILL asking them to change their stance. What the fuck are you fighting for?

I'm fighting for you to quit being delusional accelerationist dipshits who cause more genocide, among countless other catastrophes, through your sheer stupidity!

I ALSO fight for replacing the genocide-supporting Democrats with something better, IN OTHER TIMES AND CONTEXTS WHERE IT'S ACTUALLY APPROPRIATE! And fuck you for telling lies, falsely claiming I don't!

if the 'future of the world' hinges on genociding an expendible out-group and the system is powerless to change that, then i choose to walk away from omelas

Voting for neither is the same as voting for both.

if voting for neither is the same voting for both, then can we formally acknowledge that my vote makes zero difference and maybe people can stop votescolding?

Perhaps I should have said "worldviews that can be encapsulated by single-junction trolley memes", lol

Yes, despite my sassiness towards you in this thread this is a true and wise observation that goes ignored too often. My disagreements are not pertaining to the idea of inaction constituting action

you know there’s a non-genocidal warmonger party which could also be voted for.

No there fucking wasn't! Not one that could win! You're a goddamned liar and you are helping the fascists!

I'm not. I'm saying the difference is meaningless in results though.

You're the only one bringing up an idea of "reinforcement".

On the other hand, you do absolutely legislate law when abortion protections only had a SCOTUS case protecting them, especially since it was one that they'd been nibbling at for decades. Which is part of the reason that it'd been a topic for decades, and a campaign promise of Obama. One he decided later to just forget about.

a chronic lack of understanding how this government functions

It's always funny to see the shitlibs show off the fantasy they construct to protect their sad worldview.

Look around at the US. This is your doing. You guys won. You drove the politics since the 90's - and this is the result. None of this was a surprise to anyone but you.

Court packing, among others. Something the Democrats, who controlled both houses and the Presidency, chose not to do.

https://www.stevenslee.com/appellate/heeding-fdrs-cautionary-tale-biden-says-no-to-adding-supreme-court-justices/