• index@sh.itjust.works
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    Voting is a direct act of endorsement

    Its only meaning is in the differential effects of the policies of the two candidates your vote decides between

    There aren’t only two candidates.

    You absolutely should support and endorse a party you believe in, but don’t mistake voting in a presidential election for either of those things.

    There’s no confusion, a party perpetrating war and genocide is evil and if you support them you are evil too.

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      Voting is a direct act of endorsement

      endorse | verb [with object]
      to declare one’s public approval or support of.

      Your vote is expressly not public—you’re prohibited from keeping or sharing any proof of your vote.

      There aren’t only two candidates.

      In the event that your vote actually decides the election, it does so by giving the winner one more vote than the runner-up; at that point those are the only two candidates at issue. And that’s the only event in which your vote matters.

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        Spin it as much as you want. Anyone supporting, endorsing, or voting for a party with blood in his hand fueling a genocide is directly complicit in the crime

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          This post was reported for disinformation. To me this post reads like an opinion and hyperbole.

          If we do assume that the post is making a factual claim; I’m not a lawyer and I don’t know if voting has ever been used to claim that someone is complicit in a crime. Im open to being pointed to evidence.

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          I blame the Armenian genocide on you and you alone.

          Deny it all you want, you were complicit AF.