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Fundementally it's perfectly valid to take a position that a system is so irredeemable that you cannot participate, but instead believe it must be torn down instead of adding legitimatecy to it. Sometimes that protest achieves something and sometimes it doesn't. It is a kantian ethics stance that you'd have to work a lot harder to invalidate than the cursory anger that folks spew out on Lemmy.
If a vote acknowledges the legitimacy in someone's view of a genocidal government, I think it's fine for them to protest against it. I'm not personally of that stance, but I don't doubt many have sincerely held beliefs.
fundamentally, someone is going to end up in that seat anyway and you are flaunting your privelage by ditching the only right you have to make change to save the livelihoods of your neighbors.
some of us don’t have the luxury of “sitting back and watching it all burn.” but carry on. your protest is certainly worth more in the short and long run than the individuals who the opposition has promised to wreak death on today.
Ah yes, my concerted effort to win trump votes through the vast reach of.. lemmy.
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