We got nothing from the Dems, so the only thing that remains for us to do is what we always said we will do no matter what - vote for Harris.
this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2024
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I genuinely do not understand this lib talking point of "a vote is not an endorsement." It literally is! What, it doesn't count as supporting them if you feel bad when you do it?? Politicians could not give less of a shit.
These geniuses just completely destroyed any capacity they might have to make credible threats in the future, and proved that anyone treating them as unserious was correct.
This is the part that I didnt get about this for a long time. I mean I knew it, but i didnt make the connection in my brain.
All I understood is that in my mind I wasnt voting for all the evil things they do, I was voting for the marginal differences. That was the point of my vote in my mind.
It didnt occur to me until like late last year (yes, that late) that this doesnt materially matter because thats not how the politican takes it. They take it as an endorsement of every action they take.
For this reason, I'm sympathetic to people still stuck in that rut.
I never had it with voting but admittedly the same kind of logic held me back from going vegan for a long time, like, "I feel bad about eating meat so that makes it less bad when I do it, somehow."
Omg I used to do the same thing!
Yeah i don’t like Ted Bundy, but i would lend a kitchen knife to him for his meal with his date
(cw: prescriptivism) language learner stuff
although not all native English speakers are consistent on this of course, and I understood what you meant, in this situation you may want to use "lend" for 借. a mnemonic that might help is "borrow from, lend to"— a sort of checksum for this mnemonic is that the words are in alphabetical order. (not trying to be annoying, hoping you will also correct my Mandarin)Corrected! Thanks!
The silliest thing is that elected officials literally use their vote numbers as endorsements! Right up until he dropped out Brandon was using the 2020 popular vote to say that people backed his policies.
No politician worth their salt would ignore such an easy way to claim legitimacy, and especially not because you said pretty-please don't take this as an endorsement of your genocidal actions
It's literally just like, "It's fine if my beliefs never manifest into any difference in material action, just so long as I know I'm holding the correct ideas in my head." Peak idealism.