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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If your choices are Hitler and 99% Hitler, you still do what you can to stop 100% Hitler. Less bad is less bad.

Nobody cares about your smug sense of superiority when 100% Hitler is in charge and you proudly announce "I did nothing to stop this, other than try to encourage other people to also do nothing to stop this."

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This idiotic logic is precisely why US is where it is today.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You mean the logic of "I'm not going to do anything and neither should anyone else"?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nobody is making this argument except you.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Considering I specifically suggested doing something is better than doing nothing, I'm going to go ahead and guess that listening to what other people are saying isn't a strength of yours.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Doing something is what the students protesting the genocide are currently doing, not voting for the guy doing the genocide. The fact that you don't understand these basic things is truly phenomenal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I understand that the people protesting are doing something. This is the first time you've actually advocated for an action.

People are fully capable of both protesting and voting to keep someone worse from doing worse things. The fact that you don't understand these basic things is truly phenomenal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Protesting a genocide is real tangible action, voting for a guy committing the genocide is the opposite that action. Hope that helps clear things up for you since you seem to have trouble grasping this concept.