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I find it very interesting how conceptualizing binary states vs continuous ranges play into justifying not voting for the lesser evil.
By definition, a request to acknowledge the lesser evil means that the audience is able to understand "evil" on a continuous range.
Yet all of the justifications I see against voting for the lesser evil center on viewing the world through an absolute, binary lens. "I lose either way." "Genocide is genocide, nevermind that there's more of it, protestors are being silenced, the ones doing the genocide call Trump's administration a 'dream team', we now have a genocide against trans citizens as well", etc.
Do you think you'd lose less had Kamala won? Why or why not?
Ah, now you're saying the quiet part out loud - you cast your vote from an ivory tower, and that privilege allows you to justify not voting by chasing an esoteric ideal while facing no real consequences.
Must be nice! If you have nothing at stake, there's very little reason to listen to your suggestions about voting. You have no skin in the game - you're the entitled rich kid protestor who, at the end of the day, goes back to a life they don't have to worry about.
That person is simultaneously saying that if Harris won, they would have lost while also saying that whoever is in office wouldn't affect them.