As the title states I am confused on this matter. The way I see it, the USA has a two party system and in the next few weeks they’re either going to have Trump or Harris as president, come inauguration day. With this in mind doesn’t it make sense to vote for the person least likely to escalate the situation even more.

Giving your vote to an independent or worse not voting at all, just gives more of a chance for Trump to win the election and then who knows what crazy stuff he will allow, or encourage, Israel to get away with.

I really don’t get the logic. As sure nobody wants to vote for a party allowing these heinous crimes to be committed, but given you’re getting one of them shouldn’t you be voting for the one that will be the least horrible of the two.

Please don’t come at me with pro-Israeli rhetoric as this isn’t the post for that, I’m asking about why people would make such choices and I’m not up for debate on the Middle East, on this post, you can DM me for that.

Edit: Bedtime here now so will respond to incoming comments in the morning, love starting the day with an inbox full 😊.

  • dependencyinjectionOP
    191·
    4 hours ago

    Good point. Although, I would question whether Lemmy is such a place as we really don’t have the numbers to warrant the effort, imo.

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      2810·
      4 hours ago

      We get drug spam and stock spam, no reason to expect that political spam is any less likely.

      Lemmy has a huge amount of hardcore lefty’s. If you can get them to not vote, and especially if you can get them to tell their friends not to vote, that is a big win.

      Astroturfing/sockpuppeting is dirty cheap to do, so no reason not to try.

      You do see some users here that will post continously on about a certain topic repeatedly, with no other opinions. They might be legit, but I have my suspicions.

      • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
        137·
        3 hours ago

        “Hardcore lefties” have a very different understanding of the value of their vote, which is to say, it means very little.

        Have you deigned to ask them questions?

    • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1911·
      4 hours ago

      I disagree - it feels like Lemmy is seeing the same kind of shills that 4chan saw in the last several elections. These bad actors are trying to sway dems to vote third party or not vote at all “in protest” across many small and large online spaces.