Kbin/Mbin (and possibly others?) definitely have the edge here since those platforms make votes public (only admins can see them on Lemmy). So, if you want to confirm what I’m saying here, go view some of these posts from Kbin/Mbin.
Every time one of the “usual suspects” says stuff like this in the comments, there will later be posts detailing how Biden is doing (or at least earnestly trying to do) exactly the things they’re saying he needs to be doing (oR ElSe i WiLl noT voTE anD NEithER ShoULD yoU!!!11!!). 100% of the time, those posts are downvoted by these same “usual suspect” accounts.
What gives? They have very strong opinions about how he should run his administration, so you’d think they’d appreciate him doing what they’ve been so helpfully suggesting. Unless…it was never about the issues at all.
That thin veneer of concern they’re hiding behind is not as thick as they think it is and is quite easy to see through. Now you know where to look.
Edit: Please don’t name and shame any specific users. That may violate the community or LW rules. We all know who most of the “usual suspects” are.
I did vote not committed during the primary as the only opportunity to send a message, but I am voting for the democratic party down the ballot during the general like I do every single time.
Did I pass your purity test and acceptably show my distaste for biden’s support for genocide or are you going to continue to tell me how I don’t care about genocide while you unconditionally defend it?
If voting not committed during the primary is not acceptable, protests are not acceptable, and the most mild of criticisms online aren’t acceptable, then what do you consider acceptable? Only full-throated support for genocide like your god king biden who can do no wrong?
Do what you want. The fact remains that not voting will hurt America. Period. And if you’re here to defend the act of not voting- then I’m going to call it out.
And I have no “purity test.” Biden sucks. But so does unrestrained fascism.
I didn’t defend the act of not voting.
Considering that my entire point is about the trolls that urge people not to vote- and you seem to be here to be contrarian to that point-
You’d understand how I might make the distinction that you’re one of those people….?
My issue is with you picking out people who criticize genocide as if they don’t have a point.
Cool. My issue is with people who in bad faith, use genocide as an excuse to try and get Trump elected.