So, none of the above, but you’re still not going to vote?

1. There are two choices in the United States 2024 election. No third party stands a ghost of a chance of winning. No, not even if the 30,000 people you can reach on Lemmy all vote for Timothy Greenparty.
2. A Trump victory in 2024 would not only be just as bad if not worse for the citizens of Gaza than Harris would, but also pose an existential threat to a large number of vulnerable Americans (trans people, immigrants, women seeking abortions).
3. Given the margins of victory in 2016 and 2020, Kamala might not win if leftists don’t vote for her.
4. Snoozing fascism for four years is better than inviting it through the door now, and buys us time to build our defenses for when it comes back.

I’d like to focus my counterargument. Which of these statements do you disagree with?

my bad, the indicator is not nearly as obvious on desktop

Temporary incremental solutions and total solutions are not mutually exclusive.

please tell me you have evidence for this person being a bot besides them saying that some individuals have more influence over large scale climate change than others

In my city it broke 100°F today.

it is not approval of–

you know what, never mind. i don’t wanna talk to you anymore.

Do you talk this way about The Onion too?

yes. the irony is lost on you. it is… called satire. the author is making fun of the ridiculous state of the world by describing it as though it were normal, thus provoking outrage in the reader upon realizing that it is not.

also i’m not the person you replied to. and even if that person was an asshole, being an asshole would not make them a conservative.

you are just on a roll today, aren’t you?

“please demonstrate that you have any reading comprehension skills whatsoever”

“please stop being so mean to me”

Where should Israel go back to then? What other land does it have claim to where it should stay?

Ah, right. Of course. You don’t think Israel should exist at all. Judging by this comment I’m guessing you don’t think the US should exist either, which means I don’t have to listen to you

Leftists often say that no one should have to justify their right to exist. Of course, they usually say it in regards to trans people and not cis white males, but they say it. And I kinda don’t want to justify my right to exist.

Ah, so even though they’re (trying to) occupy the exact same plot of land, Israel is “the west” (and therefore we’re obligated to hate it) and Palestine is not (and therefore we’re not). That makes sense now!

[citation needed]

this should be required reading before anyone is allowed to leave a comment on Lemmy about voting

what kind of config file is short enough to fit on a single screen with line breaks?

Alright, the YAML spec is a dang mess, that I’ll grant you, but it seems pretty easy for my human eyes to read and write. As for JSON – seriously? That’s probably the easiest to parse human-readable structured data format there is!

Some data formats are easy for humans to read but difficult for computers to efficiently parse. Others, like packed binary data, are dead simple for computers to parse but borderline impossible for a human to read.

XML bucks this trend and bravely proves that data formats do not have to be one or the other by somehow managing to be bad at both.

yunno, on second thought, maybe i don’t want to be using a social platform where communism is expressly the default stance

Fun fact: Python is not named after an animal! It’s named after the comedy group Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

arguments are wasted on these people