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You’re kind of avoiding the question.

If I “fail to support Trump” then I am defacto supporting Biden, right?

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They are avoiding the question.

I think since the scales are tipped in republicans’ favour (e.g. losing popular vote but winning presidency always goes one way - Trump, Bush), not voting likely benefits them over the dems. Depending on your state of course.

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Well, at least that’s a cogent basis for an argument, thank you.

Though I still think this is something Democratic strategists should understand at this point – ultimately it’s Biden’s responsibility to drive out voters, not play chicken with his base in defense of unrepentant war criminals.

I don’t think voters can be blamed for being unable to support the politics of the party moving so far to the right, especially when Biden’s presidency itself is already representative of a massive compromise by progressive voters. If Biden loses, the blame and pressure needs to be put onto the DNC and Biden for failing to do what it takes to keep their base fed, not on the voters, or we are going to end up in this same cycle forever.

A lot of our most prominent progressive representatives came into office after 2016, as a result of Clinton’s failure. The party strategists understand when they lose, they do post-mortems even if they’re not public about them. So I still hold that it’s a valid strategy to allow democrats to fail when they end up going to far to the right, especially in such an egregious case as what we see with Gaza. Democratic support for the genocide can’t continue, it’s beyond the pale.

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According to you if you watch a murder happen you are simply protesting the victim and the murderer

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This situation is more like seeing two people murdering others and getting told you’re supporting the one who has killed eight people instead of seven because I’m not helping either of them kill people.

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Thanks for actually improving my analogy

You watched them kill all those people and then when questioned by police you shrugged your shoulders because bOtH aRe BaD

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You’re avoiding the truth, not accidentally btw

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Just following your logic.

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I didn’t invent basic logic, and no, you are not. You are making up dumb shit to try to deny basic logic.

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