The lesser-of-two-evil choice only makes sense when you’re using it to avoid a singular looming catastrophe. When it describes every election, people disengage from that process instead of actively voting for “evil” over and over again.
People make decisions for reasons beyond a cold-blooded cost benefit analysis. Sometimes, when faced with an ultimatum, people will pick the worse option out of spite, especially if they are presented with the ultimatum repeatedly. If the only choices are dying quick and dying slow, hopeless people will pick “the less optimal option”.
To be clear, I do not endorse this. This analysis is not justification. However, it is important to understand why this behavior happens in order to change things. If we want people to “stop picking the less optimal option”, they need to be presented with better choices.
When you say, “They’re fucking dumb”, it feels like you have no interest in understanding or changing why people make “less than optimal choices”. The thing I don’t endorse is disengaging from politics. I would like more people to be more active in politics because I believe in people power.
I 100% agree with you that people should be more active in politics and trying to change things for the future, but lesser evil politics is a very big reason we are in this mess right now. Because the Democratic Party has constantly been offering garbage options, people have decided to disengage from politics. People would rather jump off a burning building than die to the flames.
You’ll never negotiate that point here. You’ll get downvoted to oblivion instead. All sides that aren’t a new candidate are just equal and the same and there’s no nuance because otherwise you couldn’t just sit on your couch and doom comment. You’d be have to be accountable for doing literally nothing and waiting for someone else to bring you a candidate.
It’s ELecTorALisM to point out the practical reality of the situation and generally speaking you just catch a ban. Double true in the next 12 hours when the other hemisphere provides its vast expertise on the 2 party system.
when the “lesser evil” is still a fascist who wants to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, they aren’t a lesser evil than the group who also wants to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, you dumbass fucking nitwit. you absolute fucking baboon.
I put a zip tie around your neck every minute you tell me whether to tighten it one click or two not saying one every time is stupid right maybe you start to resent the zip tie and tell me to fuck myself maybe you try to cut the zip tie or propose not tightening it at fucking all because you want fascism you chose two clicks by not saying one this is your fault
You: “Why can’t you be guilted into voting for someone that can’t even pretend to try to stop an ongoing genocide being funded by their own constituents?!?!”
Hah stuff like this always reminds me about the guy from Gaza on Hexbear who made a last minute plea a few days before the election to please please not let Trump win, and the 'bears basically flipping him the bird
there is no lesser evil. both sides are voting against trans rights, both sides want to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, both sides want to increase corruption, both sides want to funnel money into the military industrial complex, and both sides want to make the US more authoritarian and increase government surveillance and decrease civil rights.
voting for the “lesser evil” only works when there’s a lesser evil to begin with.
You’re doing all non-white and non-cishet people extremely dirty by acting like there’s no difference between the two parties. You sound extremely privileged. There is a word of difference between kowtowing to corporate interests (which, yes, both parties do) and also actively seeking to exterminate all “undesirables”.
eight democrats just voted for an anti-trans bill. don’t even try that line, especially to someone who is a PoC and queer. your kind has been trying to wipe mine out for decades, the only difference between you and the republicans is that they are at least honest about hating us.
You got Trump because of the lesser of the two evil bullshit. Majority of americans decided Trump was the lesser of the two evil. I wonder how many more trump like president do you need to understand.
The lesser-of-two-evil choice only makes sense when you’re using it to avoid a singular looming catastrophe. When it describes every election, people disengage from that process instead of actively voting for “evil” over and over again.
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Short term utilitarianism is how you end up voting for 99% Hitler. Demand better.
People make decisions for reasons beyond a cold-blooded cost benefit analysis. Sometimes, when faced with an ultimatum, people will pick the worse option out of spite, especially if they are presented with the ultimatum repeatedly. If the only choices are dying quick and dying slow, hopeless people will pick “the less optimal option”.
To be clear, I do not endorse this. This analysis is not justification. However, it is important to understand why this behavior happens in order to change things. If we want people to “stop picking the less optimal option”, they need to be presented with better choices.
Sure, but if you don’t endorse it, why entertain the idea that it’s wrong to point it out? (not saying you do, but that’s the OP)
Voting for the lesser evil and working for a better choice should be the way
When you say, “They’re fucking dumb”, it feels like you have no interest in understanding or changing why people make “less than optimal choices”. The thing I don’t endorse is disengaging from politics. I would like more people to be more active in politics because I believe in people power.
I 100% agree with you that people should be more active in politics and trying to change things for the future, but lesser evil politics is a very big reason we are in this mess right now. Because the Democratic Party has constantly been offering garbage options, people have decided to disengage from politics. People would rather jump off a burning building than die to the flames.
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You’ll never negotiate that point here. You’ll get downvoted to oblivion instead. All sides that aren’t a new candidate are just equal and the same and there’s no nuance because otherwise you couldn’t just sit on your couch and doom comment. You’d be have to be accountable for doing literally nothing and waiting for someone else to bring you a candidate.
It’s ELecTorALisM to point out the practical reality of the situation and generally speaking you just catch a ban. Double true in the next 12 hours when the other hemisphere provides its vast expertise on the 2 party system.
That’s the lazy entitlement you’re dealing with.
Fun times.
when the “lesser evil” is still a fascist who wants to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, they aren’t a lesser evil than the group who also wants to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, you dumbass fucking nitwit. you absolute fucking baboon.
Hey can you come up with some more insults for us plz
I’m writing these down so I can use them to put some more weight behind my own arguments in the future
You seems to love insults because it allow you to deflect from the main argument
my argument didn’t need any more weight, the insults were just for fun because you’re an idiot.
I put a zip tie around your neck every minute you tell me whether to tighten it one click or two not saying one every time is stupid right maybe you start to resent the zip tie and tell me to fuck myself maybe you try to cut the zip tie or propose not tightening it at fucking all because you want fascism you chose two clicks by not saying one this is your fault
Good idea. Speed run that zip tie. Smart.
life is a zip tie
I just so happen to have your account tagged as “genocide defender” so it’s predictable that you would say something like that.
Yeah ok I’ll tag you as “doesn’t worry if the US goes even further down the shitter” so likewise I guess
You: “Why can’t you be guilted into voting for someone that can’t even pretend to try to stop an ongoing genocide being funded by their own constituents?!?!”
Hah stuff like this always reminds me about the guy from Gaza on Hexbear who made a last minute plea a few days before the election to please please not let Trump win, and the 'bears basically flipping him the bird
Haha. Stuff like this reminds me of THE MEME THAT THIS COMMENT THREAD IS FOR.
You’re literally demonstrating OP’s meme. Thanks for that. Great bit (though it IS a bit on-the-nose for my tastes).
And this is how the right wins. People acting like voting the lesser evil is the solution and not putting your foot down and saying “no more”.
No, putting your foot down and saying no more was how the right won.
The left can’t “just” win though. We need to be actively working to ratchet the party back to its principles.
Both sides are equally bad is stupidly binary thinking that only benefits the right.
So how has not voting for the lesser evil been working out for us lately?
there is no lesser evil. both sides are voting against trans rights, both sides want to actively engage in multiple genocides around the world, both sides want to increase corruption, both sides want to funnel money into the military industrial complex, and both sides want to make the US more authoritarian and increase government surveillance and decrease civil rights.
voting for the “lesser evil” only works when there’s a lesser evil to begin with.
You’re doing all non-white and non-cishet people extremely dirty by acting like there’s no difference between the two parties. You sound extremely privileged. There is a word of difference between kowtowing to corporate interests (which, yes, both parties do) and also actively seeking to exterminate all “undesirables”.
eight democrats just voted for an anti-trans bill. don’t even try that line, especially to someone who is a PoC and queer. your kind has been trying to wipe mine out for decades, the only difference between you and the republicans is that they are at least honest about hating us.
“My kind?” Sounds like you’ve become what you hate.
I’m an antifascist, I would never become a liberal
You must not have been following US politics for checks notes the last 5 decades
You must not have been following US politics for checks notes the last 5 decades
You got Trump because of the lesser of the two evil bullshit. Majority of americans decided Trump was the lesser of the two evil. I wonder how many more trump like president do you need to understand.