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What do you tell your “left-leaning” neoliberal friends when they guilt-trip you into voting for their candidates (lemmygrad.ml)

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In every election “left-leaning” neoliberals always try to guilt-trip Marxists into voting for their candidates with the usual schpiel: “Your party doesn't have enough votes to win. You are just letting conservatives win”. What do you tell these people?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tell them I've voted for Yosemite Sam in the last ten elections and I'm not about to change that now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like how that implies that at minimum you are 58 years old lmao

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Yes. I usually just walk away muttering to myself and shaking my head derisively after saying this, like they’re some kind of idiot, leaving them bewildered as they work out the math in their heads and start to wonder if perhaps I am significantly older than they thought.