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(who, by the way, did not meaningfully impact the results of the election)

You could say that about literally any voter, since we are dealing with a margin of literal millions of people, even when the difference is only a single percentage point.

But all of you who are blaming protest voters are pointing fingers at the wrong people.

In terms of who is most responsible, protest voters are way down the list. And, may I emphasize, far below abstainers.

But "They bear less responsibility than the literal fascists and the braindead, spineless corporate ghouls in the DNC" is not "They bear no responsibility", and considering the borderline celebratory attitude towards 'principled' abstaining and protest voting against the antifascist coalition candidate on Lemmy, I think it bears noting that abstainers and protest voters absolutely do not have their hands clean, and that what they did was not in any way acceptable, much less a laudable act. They preferred inaction, or self-aggrandizing protest, to contributing to saving the lives of literal millions from death, torture, and general oppression from a literal fascist government.

We needed all hands on deck to put out a massive fire, and they refused. The captain was a corrupt, venal fuckwit, but it's all of us in the hold who are going to burn now, not the officers et co.