Oh, right. Now I follow.

Yeah, the Biden supporters are all doing ridiculous mental gymnastics. I’m not sure I’ve seen mental gymnastics like this outside of a cult.

It’s very funny to me that you received friendly fire because people on your side saw a simple “genocide is bad” meme and just assumed it was about them.

I think it’s more that OP has made numerous comments in this thread arguing that we should vote for Biden.

OP’s vibe seems to be “Yes, I really really really do oppose genocide… but the responsible thing is to vote for Biden, and people who won’t support him are the true genocide enablers.”

It’s not a valid Scrabble word unfortunately

Maybe Adam Tots is Mandaean.

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Time Traveller from 1993 (when this episode aired): “So, what’s 2024 like?”

“If you say you won’t support genocide, you get accused of being a Russian asset.”

Democracy in America is already gone.

Now you’re just enabling genocide.

I don’t care. I’m not voting for anyone who supports genocide. I have to be able to live with myself.

And if I end up in death camp (because, by the way, I’m gay), that would be better than knowing I supported a genocide.

Is democracy when you feel you have to vote for whoever the DNC tells you to vote for, even when you don’t like them and they’re funding a genocide?

Who names their kid “Chase”?

Is he a dog?

Oh, nevermind, I see everyone already made that joke.

jaded and entitled children that think our every want and need will be addressed

Yes, how spoilt we are to not want checks notes genocide.

And I would like everyone in America to consider the material outcomes (genocide, environmental collapse, corporate oligarchy) of voting for the Democrats instead of voting for the Greens.

You know exactly what I mean when I say the “PM seat”.

No, I have no clue.

In theory, a major party and a minor party can form a coalition, and the leader of the minor party becomes Deputy PM.

I don’t think it’s ever happened at the federal level in Canada, though.

It’s a pitty Bibi didn’t hang himself while jumping off a railing.

You’re also comparing house of commons seats to PM seats, which is a bad comparison because of the scale and difference in location of said elections. A FPTP election in a locality will inherently have easier competition than a national level FPTP election.

There’s no such thing as a “PM seat”. The Prime Minister occupies a seat in the House of Commons like any other, for which he must win the election in his local riding. Justin Trudeau is the member for Papineau, a neighbourhood in north Montreal.

The Governor General (representative of the King) then invites one member of parliament to form government as Prime Minister, for which the other members of the parliament must give a vote of confidence. By convention, that person is the leader of the party that wins the most seats in the House of Commons.

The Prime Minister of Canada is not directly elected in Canada. There is no nation-wide FPTP election for PM.

Setting aside November for a moment, shouldn’t we be having a discussion about whether Biden is fit to be president right now? It can’t be good for all of the nation’s enemies to know the US of A has an addled president, can it?

He should be stepping aside and letting Kamala take over.

Let Democrats see how President Harris fares for a couple months before the Democrat convention has to decide in August whether to run a different candidate or stick with Harris.

That way, if they do decide to run with Harris, she’ll be entering the election as an incumbent.

ignore the hundreds of thousands of people who are going to die in various horrible ways because of your inaction, at least you didn’t have to make a choice.

Tens of thousands of men, women, and children are dying right now, and your guy is supporting it.

And I am making a choice. I’m choosing third-party.

Because you’re a citizen. That’s what being a citizen means.

As a citizen, I am working on building support for third-party candidates who are outside of the Democrat-Republican Duopoly (which is really just a Monopoly).

I don’t care if it’s realistic. It’s the only option I see. I’m not supporting a genocide.

Relevant pic: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/11rrvt/be_this_guy/

why don’t you outline a realistic plan that leads to neither Biden nor Trump being elected

The Democrats replace Biden with a better candidate, like Gretchen Whitman.

(Not Gavin Newsom. He’s just as pro-Israel as Biden.)

and how you plan to achieve that

Why is that my job?

It’s astounding that you manage to miss the entire point of a trolley problem.

Internet memes about the trolley problem actually fail to present it completely. After the ponderer decides that killing one person is better than killing five people, they are then asked if it’s okay to push a bystander off a bridge onto the train tracks if that would derail the train and prevent it killing five people.

To me, the ultimate lesson of the trolley problem is that morality is not a matter of trading fewer lives for more lives. That’s why I’m not listening to your “Biden probably means fewer deaths than Trump” argument. Voting for either of them violates my sense of morality.

I’d rather work on dismantling the tracks, even if it might take a while.

You’re trying to make this a false dichotomy. That’s a form of logical fallacy, and it’s manipulative.

It’s like those trolley problems about “do you throw the switch or not”? The thing I would do is try to fix the brakes. And if people on the track die, that is the fault of whoever tied them to the track, not me.

I’m not supporting either Trump or Biden, and neither should you.

You’re trying to say Trump is worse than Biden, and though I disagree with some of your points, it also doesn’t matter because I am not choosing either of them. I’m trying to fix the brakes.