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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I will never get these people struggling to understand the lesser evil rationale. Maybe it's just on a scale and timeline that is for some too difficult to really internalize.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some are young and don't really remember much of his last presidency, so it couldn't be that bad.

Some are staunch idealists who think voting lesser evil is the same as enthusiastic support.

Some are secret accelerationists who want things to get worse because they think the proletariat will spontaneously rise up if they're desperate enough.

Some are bad faith actors trying to divide the left.

Some unironically think that both are equally bad.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago

That's a lot of ways to say "stupid assholes"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think they're struggling to understand it. They become quite excellent at understanding it once it turns to anything they support. China, Russia, Hamas, the Houthis, all the lesser evil. But for 'some reason' any time non-authoritarian regimes are involved, they become determined to ensure that the world knows that they're willing to kill every last minority for their 'principles'.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah maybe you're right. The thing that gets me is if they really understood how bad it could get under someone like Trump, like really understood how hard things can get and how fast it can happen - no way they'd hand him the keys to the country. There's just a real disconnect there that I will never understand.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

No, I think they still would. I really, legitimately think that they're the secular equivalent of the Rapture lunatics I grew up with in an evangelical upbringing. They view the current state of affairs as a sinful world which must be destroyed by any means.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe voting for lesser evil now would create even greater evil in the future.