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It's fine man.
You want meaningless actions that dont do anything except good people losing power.
I want people in power to do everything they can with that power to stop a genocide.
We just disagree.
I pity you for living in a system were you don't have a real choice and to salve your conscience have to finding excuses to justify some evildoing over other evildoing so that you can feel that the incredibly narrow and highly managed "choice" you have is a real choice rather than meaningless theatre.
I would hope that if I myself was in that situation, my reaction wouldn't be to rush out in defense of the evildoing of the "side" I chose when the nature of their actions is pointed out but instead just shut up - just because one has a "choice" of A, which will shaft you, or B which will shaft you, doesn't mean one has to like it or rush out in defense of a specific kind of shafting by pointing out that "yeah, but those other guys will shaft you too" when somebody points out that it is, indeed, a shafting.
Nobody can be blamed for the conditions they were born into, but they certainly can for how they reacted to it.