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And that's why Kamala's stance on Palestine never bothered me.
I knew that as bad as it was, Trump would be worse.
I was right.
Re-read what you wrote, it contradicts itself.
One side being even worse makes the other side less bad.
By definition, one side being worse means the other side is automatically less bad.
That's a false equivalence.
John Doe's actions have no connection to his brothers.
Here, either Trump or Harris was going to be the President. There was no action I could take that would have allowed a third party to enter that equation.
Even if me and the rest of America voted for Jill Stein, the Electoral College would still give the votes to Trump or Kamala.
If I were in a position where I could snap my fingers and bar Trump and Harris from entering politics again, then Bernie Sanders would be in the White House, Nethanyu would be awaiting his court date, and Israel would be paying reperations to Palestine.
But, I'm not Thanos and the only gauntlet I have is an old Power Glove in a box somewhere next to a broken PSP and a physical copy of Super Metroid.
Damn that's crazy. What do you want bro to do about it? You want 'em to overthrow the american government?
If you had to pick between John Doe with a knife, Jim Doe with 2000lbs of explosives, or to have no say in the matter, which would you pick?
I really don't understand why I need to explain this to you, but if there are only two options, the less bad one is the better option.
Right? It's like the
"Oh well if you stop mass murderers from having guns, aren't they just gonna use knives instead"
To that I say "Unless you're Simon Belmont slaughtering waves of Dracula's minions, I don't think you're gonna get anywhere near as high of a body count throwing knives at people."
Very much enjoy the nerd culture references
Uh, it absolutely does, and the fact that you called someone an idiot while spewing such warped logic is hilarious.
I'm on the side that hands out awful tasting licorice candy. You are on the side that punches people in the face.
If you can't understand logic this simple, no wonder this country is screwed.
You worded that poorly. You're trying to say two sides performing evil acts are both evil, even if one side is more evil than the other.
Right?
Except it is a fact that there ARE degrees of "evil", where one side has the ability to listen to reason while the other will escalate the worst outcome.
Semantic arguments go nowhere.