• The Menemen
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    You could easily argue that the guys constantly chosing the lesser evil brought that catastrophic discourse shift over us, that made the lesser evil of this election worse than the worse evil of former elections.

    I am not from the US, so my insight there might be limited. But here in Germany I started to hate the lesser evil fraction so much. The lesser evil here is now openly representing far right ideologies, activley supporting genocide, made it borderline illegal to critizise genocid, killing refugees at the borders, deporting people into regions were they face immediate lethal threats, initiating harsh social cuts while demonizing the poor and are discussing cooperation with open fascists. They are constantly normalizing open fascism, everday a little more. If Germany slights into fascism again, it will be mostly the lesser evils fault.

    Fuck the lesser evil. They became more dangerous than the fascist themselves in many respects.

    It was also Hindenburg and von Papen back in the 1930s, the lesser evil, who was paving Hitler the way to power.

    edit: Lol, I startet this meaning to write 2-3 sentences, seems the lesser evil caused a writing frenzy in me.

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      Brain dead take. This whole philosophy of yours falls apart in the real world- look at the last US elections. We’re speed running reversal of 100+ years of progress with this idiot, where we would have incremental change forward still happening if people like you had decided to get off their high horse and vote. Not saying you personally were voting, just your mindset was one that fucked us over.

      • @[email protected]
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        154 days ago

        We got to where we are because we’ve been choosing the lesser evil, for far longer than 20 years

        If liberals hadn’t been so content with choosing evil, we’d have avoided the last 50 years of backsliding.

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        This whole theory has been 100% proven by the current shitshow here in Germany. Everything I wrote has already happened and fascists much, much worse than Trump are currently the first among polls in Germany as a result.

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            Oh my, if you had stopped voting the lesser evil 20 years ago, you’d not have Trump now. Also, asshole move to derail the discussion by getting impertinent “brain dead” and starting to downvote, simply because you disagree (blocking you for that, as it annoys me).

            • @[email protected]
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              Factually wrong. We would have had Al Gore instead of Bush, if people voted for lesser evils. We wouldn’t have had Nixon or Regan if people voted for lesser evils. Don’t comment on our politics when you know nothing of them.

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                  Unfortunately, he didn’t win- because the Electoral College is a sham. We got Bush Jr. who threw us into 20+ years of war, and a bunch of idiots that can’t pronounce the world “Nuclear” without adding an extra “U” somewhere in there.

                  • goferking (he/him)
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                    because the Electoral College is a sham.

                    That and supreme court stopping the count and gore not fighting for it.

                    But now we also have many of the same people from that case on Supreme Court! 😭