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Or, maybe, you could actively resist the system that gets you Hitler no matter who you vote for through direct action and organizing?
Yeah, but maybe give yourself more time to do that by, for example, not electing Hitler.
Lol. Not beating the historically illiterate accusation
"Voting against the Nazi's didn't work for Germans, so let's just try letting the Nazi's win from the get-go"
You're the one arguing to vote for Nazis
Remind me why the Democrats had the nicknames "Genocide Joe" and "Holocaust Harris"
I'd say Trump isn't much better, but the Gaza Peace Plan is an improvement over the status quo from before. But the parallels between Trump and Hitler are far stronger than between Biden and Hitler, especially on domestic policy.
I'm not faulting people for not voting in 2024, Trump was more of a wildcard than Biden. Voting Biden in guaranteed a continued genocide but nobody knew what Trump would do.
Trump is an exception to the Republican rule, his foreign policy is very idiosyncratic and his domestic policy is more mask-off (metaphorically, not literally). The Republican party behind him is more uniform in their unconditional support for Israel. The Democrat party is fractured on that front and broadly (though not unanimously) united against the most murderous of Trump's domestic policies.
Maybe abstaining or voting third-party will incite a communist revolution, I don't know, but right now more people are dying than would under a Democrat senate majority and I don't see them being able to make things worse in Gaza (and they're not really ideologically pro-genocide, they just don't care as long as they have access to Israeli military bases).
This logic works if you see non-Americans as Untermenschen. But if you don't then Trumps sheer incompetence is the lesser evil for the world.
Trump is an exception to the Republican rule, not for his incompetence but for his unpredictability.
And the domestic policy of the Republicans effects the rest of the world too. Climate change is a big one, Trump would never pass the "inflation reduction act" and as much as that bill had flaws it did contribute to renewable energy in the United States. Trump also cut USAID and while that funding probably wouldn't come back under the Democrats, it is yet another example of how non-Americans were hurt by his actions.
"Sure they were committing mass genocide, but they had slightly better policies on renewable energy!"
You wouldn't really be getting more time though. Fascism is capitalism self-preservation response, if you started successfully mass-organizing under Hindenburg, the state would start putting in a lot of the same policies Hitler did later on. You need to act decisively and with enough force to overpower the state. Mind you, it's not exactly like the means the Nazis seized power was especially legitimate.