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The fact that those are your choices should be enough to alert you to the reality - that voting is a charade to make you feel "heard" and to keep you from turning on your overlords, who will continue to wage war for profit (be it on Palestine or on their own poor and marginalised) no matter what.
Sadly the propaganda is so strong that most people can't see beyond the pretend field laid out in front of them and the "blue vs red" mentality that is enforced along with it, so focused on this artificial division that they don't see that the real "teams" are society and those who exploit it for profit and power (and who control the media and the education system, ensuring you're indoctrinated this way from birth).
By all means, vote for the lesser (but still) evil (I'm in the UK, we are able to vote "none" which I will be doing if there is no one on the ballot who represents me), but you don't get to pat yourself on the back for it as if you've just stormed the beach on D day and singlehandedly defeated fascism, because that's nowhere near the truth, which is that you've just participated in a bit of theatre where you were given an illusion of choice. You being uncomfortable doesn't change that.
It could change you, if you decide to engage the discomfort instead of ignoring it, you can start here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230803021951/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/american-democracy-was-never-designed-to-be-democratic
https://truthout.org/articles/fascism-is-possible-not-in-spite-of-liberal-capitalism-but-because-of-it/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/14/liberalism-and-fascism-partners-in-crime/
We get it bro, youre the arbiter of truth. Voting is meaningless, so don't do anything other than bitch and moan about everything.
They literally tell you to vote but ok
Read the last paragraph. It's facetious.
It is overly dramatic to the point of being annoying, but I wouldn't describe it as facetious. They say to vote for the lesser of two evils, I'm going to assume that's what they want people to do.
No, you've just constructed a strawman.
Not sure you know what that means, buddy.
They never said anything about just "bitch[ing] and moan[ing]". Just that voting isn't as much saving the world as much as the people in power would like you to believe. Tell me how you didn't misrepresent what they said to make it easier for you to attack them (you know... Strawmanning)
Lol, brush up on some English Composition. This isn't the gotcha you think it is.
Trying to dunk on my second language. Classy... /s
You still misrepresented the comment you replied to and you've yet to give a reason why they're supposedly wrong.