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As the title states I am confused on this matter. The way I see it, the USA has a two party system and in the next few weeks they’re either going to have Trump or Harris as president, come inauguration day. With this in mind doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

Giving your vote to an independent or worse not voting at all, just gives more of a chance for Trump to win the election and then who knows what crazy stuff he will allow, or encourage, Israel to get away with.

I really don’t get the logic. As sure nobody wants to vote for a party allowing these heinous crimes to be committed, but given you’re getting one of them shouldn’t you be voting for the one that will be the least horrible of the two.

Please don’t come at me with pro-Israeli rhetoric as this isn’t the post for that, I’m asking about why people would make such choices and I’m not up for debate on the Middle East, on this post, you can DM me for that.

Edit: Bedtime here now so will respond to incoming comments in the morning, love starting the day with an inbox full 😊.

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[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 28 points 15 hours ago (3 children)
[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

This is really clever if you're okay with convincing yourself that you know exactly and completely what other people believe.. Otherwise it's a reductionist hot take filled with logical fallacy.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

https://kamalaharris.com/issues/

Looks like the campaign has a whole bunch of things besides "orange man bad". All there on the official page easy to find.

It seems like someone saying the entire campaign is "orange man bad" hasn't bothered to listen to anything being said and is just focusing on the most salient point in a bad faith effort to discredit them.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 12 hours ago

"Be more than just orange man bad"

Here's a list

"Kamala bad"

I thought we were asking for more than just "opposition bad"?

But if we're going the "opposition bad" route find me a single item in that list that Trump wouldn't make worse.
You know, the entire topic of the thread: even if Kamala isn't good, Trump is significantly worse in every way, and one of them will be president.

[–] Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, it's almost as if someone being bad can be for multiple reasons!

[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, for instance: funding a genocide, xenophobic immigration policy, building the wall, dropping the ball on covid right before delta/omicron, a lack of healthcare reform, the inability to protect abortion rights, being a cop, denigrating anti-genocide protestors, racially profiling Muslims at your events

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago

inability to protect abortion rights

"I was robbed"

"I blame you more than the thief because you should have protected your stuff better!"