One could argue that by voting you’re supporting the status quo, the bipartisan democracy heavily invested in said status quo. You are the one obstructing change.

Or to say it with a quote:

If democracy demands compulsory voting for candidates people can’t believe in, it’s not democracy, it’s extortion.

EDIT: One further thought on that reasoning: it might actually make one morally obliged to vote for a third party.

So you helped the genocide because you voted Biden? This sort of reasoning is too silly to be interesting.

It does, actually. Ice cream can put you at grave risk of brain freeze.

Good point! Then again, I don’t think some flavors result in less brain freeze than others.

Even breathing has downsides.

True as well, every breath destroys lung cells.

If you want to be philosophical about it, consider this: If there weren’t pros and cons, you wouldn’t be making a choice at all.

This, however, I’m having a hard time to agree with. Come to think of it, I’m not even sure choice is something natural, but that will require some deeper investigation to ascertain. In a fictional natural state, when looking for a place to sleep, would a “family” really (have to) make a conscious choice between this cave and that one?

I’d reckon it’s more natural to try and avoid any nut-kicking, but hey, that’s me.

Very interesting viewpoint but it doesn’t quite seem to apply when choosing flavors at an ice cream parlor.

socialism

noun

so·​cial·​ism ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm

any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

Not anyone. Billionaires will not be helped by this.

So that was what I’m advocating, sitting around and waiting? I’d have to ask you again to copy/paste that bit…

You do realize It’s not binary, right?, It’s not a choice between voting for democrats or sitting around waiting.

Am I? Please copy/paste that bit.

That’s what Chomsky said too, I don’t buy it. In my country there are 10+ parties, 6 of which in government, and people are still playing the lesser evil game in the deluded hope they can shift the window.

Am I? I just hate the lesser evil bullshit.

You’re advocating a reset without a change to the underlying system. Expecting a different outcome is insanity.

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All that does is make a whole new generation of politicians become attached to their privileges.

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wow nice, I had no idea!

The ruling is seen by some as a blow to Germany’s fight against right-wing extremism, although for others it could be proof of the country’s high standards of free speech.

Yes, nothing says free speech like repressing pro-Palestinian demonstrators under vague security rationales.

European leaders are still stuck on X, says enough about them too.

I was fresh awake and happy to be spoiled for choice 😀. The answer is, was, and always will be fries.

Same here! And on a slow day when I finally managed to get through the whole Subscribed feed, there’s still the All feed to tackle. I really like that system.

That’s the beauty about Lemmy, it’s not too reliant on momentum as it doesn’t need graphs to go up at all times. The fediverse will always be a refuge when other platforms crumble. We’ll just have to be patient and make sure the platform and the communities are as good as they can be at that point in time.