• grue@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    No, it’s an absolutely shitty, irrelevant single issue when there are only two viable candidates and they take similar positions on it.

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      6 hours ago

      Me: “Not killing innocent people is a pretty good single issue, though.”

      You: “No, it’s an absolutely shitty, irrelevant single issue…”

      Okay. I will stop expecting humans to treat other humans with decency. After all, we can’t expect innocent people not to be oppressed and exploited. Frankly, I only get cheap technology because of slave labour, so therefore I have to not care about humans. At least I’m doing well, living in a country with a generally higher standard of living.

      Thanks for setting my mind at ease. I will swap my moral expectations for being complacent. That will make the world better, because - as we know - the human drive for profit is not in any way creating outcomes that are bad for the world.

      If it turns out I’m lying to myself I can just end my life. For, after all, life is not an important issue. Easy come, easy go.

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        6 hours ago

        It’s an absolutely shitty, irrelevant single issue IN THIS ELECTION because there’s no meaningful difference between the two candidates on it. (Actually, there is a meaningful difference but the trolls are trying to propagandize against the candidate that’s less bad on it, so clearly they don’t actually give a flying fuck about the thing they dishonestly claim to care about.)

        But you damn well already fucking knew that, so quit your bullshit strawmanning.