Nah. Usually this problem has two tracks. I can see why you overlooked it.

No shame in making mistakes! Happens to the best of us.

You just voting is not preventing the last step happen is my point.

It quite literally is, unless you think there’s no difference between who wins in this election, in which case I would prefer you say it and save us all the time.

Preventing something from happening in an immediate sense is still preventing it from happening, even if it doesn’t solve the long-term problems leading to it. Patching up a hole in one’s gut may not solve the autoimmune disorder that’s killing you, but it’ll prevent you from dying in a more immediate sense.

If people put all the effort you put into thinking and talking about voting to doing direct action, it will probably be better.

… all the effort we put into thinking and talking about voting?

Most people in this country don’t even bother to vote regularly. Those that do often put no more effort into their vote than a day at the polling station based on a few caught glimpses of the political realities of this country.

What level of effort is that going to translate into direct action? You’re looking at people entered into a 100-meter sprint, nearly half of whom decided to drop out before even beginning, with many of those who’ve finished are bitching about how long it was, and saying “If they put that effort into an ultramarathon, THEN we would really be getting somewhere!”

But most voters will go “oh well, we tried” and let fascists do fascist things which is the exact things that has been happening for the past 50 years, which is why you’re at the point of voting for a fascist & genocide or just voting for genocide.

Is it your opinion that we are more fascist now than we were 50 years ago, then? Or 100 years ago?

Just Buying time is only effective is you actually do something with the time you buy.

Buying time give the potential to do something with the time bought. Not buying time doesn’t magic into existence extra options; not buying time only reduces your options.

I’m not saying to hasten fascism.

Really? Because I would think that a literal fascist and his cronies being put into executive power might hasten fascism a tiny bit.

I said put all the effort you put into voting into doing direct action, which is the only thing actually stopping fascism. The figurehead above doesn’t matter.

So you do think that there’s no difference in who wins the election, and this whole conversation is pointless?

Nobody said it was an acceptable loss. You’ve missed the point.

All outcomes are foreseen. The one that will occur is not. Abstaining and 3rd party voting has known impacts that lead to one or the other possible outcome.