• Hirom@beehaw.org
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    24 hours ago

    Depending on the context, this may or may not be a false dichotomy.

    If considering the act of voting in an election in a country with a two party system, each with a different shade of neoliberalism, then there are two choices realistically, and picking the lesser evil is a decent moral choice.

    If considering other countries or primaries where there are more than two options polling above 2%, then it’d be a false dichotomy.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      23 hours ago

      The reason it’s a false dichotomy is because the implicit point of the OP is that revolution is necessary. The original commenter either didn’t pick that up or ignored it, centering voting as the primary means of political engagement without addressing the point raised by the OP.