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tinymoves

to be honest it would make me a lot more comfortable if you guys would show a little concern about trump running for president again. Do not inbox me and say you don’t like joe biden omg i already know. but can we show a little concern. about donald trump. being the republican candidate for president. for the third election in a row.

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Also maybe you can focus a little more on how Trump won’t stop fucking running and a little less on the incumbent president running for reelection once, which is the natural path that is not at all weird. Like, the fact that it’s these same two guys again is Trump’s fault, not Biden’s. What Biden

is doing is normal. What Trump is doing is very much not.

theroguefeminist

Going to come out here and say this: if you do not vote for Biden, you are voting for Trump. | literally do not care what horde of leftists with the memory span of a goldfish come for me for saying this. A third party vote is no vote. No vote is a vote for Trump. If you care at all about saving democracy in this country long enough to elect someone better than Biden, vote for Biden. Not voting for Biden is a vote for a dictator and a vote for the end of democracy. As bad as things are, we saw they can get so much worse. And | do not want to hear the same people saying not to vote for Biden crying when shit hits the fan if Trump wins.

If you care about trans people’s rights. If you care about abortion rights. If you care about immigrants’ rights. If you care about global warming. Literally any issue under the sun, will be made worse by Trump in every conceivable way imaginable.

| have a hard time fathoming how people are

still saying Trump and Biden are the same after everything that has happened. A quick Google

on Biden’s policies on every progressive issue vs Trump will tell you the opposite. Yeah, Biden is a shitty moderate liberal who supports Israel. So

is literally every single other US president that has ever fucking existed. Voting for a third party candidate will not help Palestine. It will literally only escalate things and make them even worse if Trump wins. In every conceivable way imaginable.

If you aren’t going to vote, then at least have the decency to stop pretending like what you are doing has any remotely positive impact. It does not. There is nothing virtuous or admirable about abstaining (and a third party vote is abstaining). We went through this in 2016. | thought people would have learned by now. But here we are again in 2024. If Trump wins, blood is on your hands and you didn’t do even the one easiest thing you could do to stop it from happening.

synnefa-kyria

The DNC was never going to nominate another primary candidate over the incumbent, the sitting president, who is in charge of the entire Democratic party.

| don’t think the sun shines out of Biden’s ass, guys, but please look at the bigger picture here.

Our presidential election is not ranked choice and is not won by a majority of over 50%. It is a two party system that is won by plurality; whoever gets the biggest slice of votes, even if it’s under 50%, is the winner and they take all. First the district, then the state, then the Electoral College. This is why third parties have little influence. This is why voting for them or not at all benefits the opposition. This is why Trump won in 2016.

A 2024 Trump victory is an not something we as a nation can bear - it’s bad for us, and it is unseeakabl bad for Palestine because Trump’s a far-right lunatic lacking morals and human compassion.

Not voting for Biden, third party or abstaining, will split the vote and cause a spoiler in favor

of Trump. See the 2000 Georee W Bush vs Al Gore election for reference. Take a long look at those razor thin mareins. Al Gore lost Florida

by 0.009%. Hell, walk down memory lane to the 2016 election. States where Trump won by a margin of 3% or less - Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - would have won Hillary the Electoral College, 316 to 224,

We cannot fore et Russia’s war on Ukraine either. Do you honestly think Trump will want to continue US aid to Ukraine? Really? The

guy who’s all buddy-buddy with Putin and has Russia-supporting followers? He’s been vocal about his lack of enthusiasm for supporting Ukraine, and has threatened to hamstring NATO - Ukraine’s principal ally - should the situation escalate further.

Russia is angling towards a return of the Soviet Union’s former territory - look at Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia (the country). Appeasement is not an option - that’s a proven failure. A possible return to the Cold War status quo is horrifying, and there’s every reason to believe they won’t stop there, setting off a multitude of geopolitical tinder boxes. God above forbid any one of the parties involved sets off a nuclear bomb, tactical or ICBM.

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  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    The thing that is annoying is there is NO nuance to this. First primary isn’t over. So I can vote something to pull Biden more left. Second I live in a state with no chance of Biden losing. Remember this isn’t a one person one vote thing this is who wins the popular vote in each state for president gets all that states votes unless you are in Nebraska or Maine. So if I live in Delaware then voting 3rd party won’t hurt Biden he will win but maybe a movement will realize he doesn’t have as much support so maybe he will court progressive independents versus Republicans.

    It won’t hurt. That being said do vote blue down ballot and primary all the people who are fake Democrats or shitty ones. Maybe if you find a hole and find you have massive support get a green party in but you would know if that race is close if you are local.

    These posts are annoying to tell people to fall in line and I agree the other posts of I hate Biden is trying to divide the line in closer races.

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      I live in a state with no chance of <candidate> losing

      A lot of people make that assumption up until their candidate actually loses.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        Well then the candidate should have done better if they lost that many people in a protest vote or an apathy no vote.

        Remember they should earn people’s vote not we should vote for someone because we have to.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    Wind dat same shit I always post in these threads back selecta!

    If you’re reading this and you don’t want to vote for biden or trump, consider party for socialism and liberation. They’re running Claudia de la Cruz for president this year on a platform of Palestinian statehood and ending arms shipments to Israel.

    It’s okay to not want to vote for Biden or trump.

    • Match!!
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      91 year ago

      It’s okay to not want to vote for Biden or trump but the principled stance if you do that is accelerationism.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Idk, there’s a good argument that the only way to get to a future where the democrats are pushed left or a new party takes over their position in the two party dichotomy is by showing exactly what votes in what districts the two major parties are leaving on the table.

        Of course voting isn’t the only thing needed to create either of those outcomes, but if a person were working towards one of them I think voting third party is the right choice.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        How come you stopped replying to me in the thread where we were talking about that?

        Why are you dragging that into this thread? Why did you drag it into that thread (I’m pretty sure it was off topic drama there too)?

  • @[email protected]
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    41 year ago

    yeah i hear you and all, but i still don’t like that Biden isn’t leftist so I’m willing to give straight up fascism another go

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    Every shitty Biden apologetics post like this that I read just further solidifies my decision to vote for Oliver.

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    I don’t understand this political strategy in the long-run. If the left always unflinchingly votes for the leftmost candidate then the optimal strategy for the DNC is always to choose someone just 1% to the left of whoever the Republicans are running.

    The trumpers aren’t strong because they always vote. They’re strong because everyone knows that, if Trump isn’t on the ballot, they won’t turn out to vote nearly as strongly.

    Combine this with the fact that basically every business interest wants right-wing politics and you get the perpetual rightwards slide of the Democratic Party.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      91 year ago

      I don’t understand this political strategy

      Because way too many voters have no concept of game theory

      • pachrist
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        31 year ago

        I’ve had some luck explaining it by asking folks why multiple gas stations are at the same intersection, or asking why Lowes and Home Depot are always right next to each other.

          • pachrist
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            71 year ago

            It’s traditionally explained with two lemonade stands on a long beach. If their product is generally indistinguishable and both want to maximize their number of customers, they will eventually settle on halfway mark of the beach. One gets all the foot traffic from the left, the other from the right, splitting it 50/50.

            The same applies to businesses on a map, not just a one dimensional beach. Most consumers don’t really care if it’s a Home Depot or Lowes, or a BP or Exxon. If one of them discovers a gap in the market and places something there, someone else can come along and grab half the market. It’s something Walmart has done in a lot of small towns. They’ll come in and split market 50/50 with a small, local shop knowing that there’s not enough money to turn a profit with splitting the market in half. But they know they the can run a loss for a year or two, the competition will close, and then they’ll have 100% of the market.

            It’s a really topical thing in politics. There are more centrist voters than at either extreme end, so politicians tend to fall more in the middle. Politicians like Trump change the landscape though. While an extreme candidate, the Republican party had already been shifting more right for a while, so he only marginally pulled the voter base right, but pulled most Republican politicians right, or pushed them out. Democrats moved to match. It essentially means that far right Republicans have a short stroll to the nearest lemonade stand, but far left Democrats have to trudge a couple miles in the hot summer sun, and they’re deciding it’s not worth it.

    • @[email protected]
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      61 year ago

      Jesus Democrats have deluded themselves that Republicans would not vote Republican if not for Trump.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      I’ve said a lot of the same for years. You don’t get a progressive president by voting for them first. You vote in television unsexy stuff, city council races, congressional primaries, county commissioners. Those people learn the system and move up. Bug surprise, like progressive ideas, you build up fom the bottom.

  • @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    I like it better when they tell me their politics with their chests. Chests that happen to have big sloppy wobbling milkers. One of my favorite ig follows is a woman with absolutely enormous honkers who talks about the right to contraception and I have decided this is how I prefer my politics

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      ‘Enormous honkers’, you say? What is this person’s IG name?

      …if my wife is reading, I want her IG name to make sure I don’t accidentally view the account, of course.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        It definitely wouldn’t be thejuliettemichele.

        You have absolutely no business whatsoever looking for this person.

  • @[email protected]
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    341 year ago

    Someday I’d like to hear a rational explanation about why the worse the Republican is, the more conservative and uncharismatic the Dem has to be.

    Like, if all that matters is stopping Republicans…

    Why aren’t we running someone that people like?

    A Bill Clinton or Barack Obama type that actively went after the youth vote, opened a dialog with voters, and took feedback to make their campaigns more appealing?

    Historically speaking, that’s a slam dunk.

    We can keep trying to berate the youth into voting, but the thing about 18 year olds is, there’s always 18 year olds. Convince this batch to hold their nose, and we got to convince the next one again. Plus re-convirnce the old batch again. Someone that’s 30 right now has spent almost half their life being told that they have no say in who they vote for, they just have to vote against trump.

    How are people surprised they feel disenfranchised?

    Why can’t we try listening to the youth, and trust that as the future party moves further to the left, they stay with the party?

    • @[email protected]
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      Are we now to the point where we’re deifying Clinton? He had sex with a subordinate (likely more than one). His policies resulted in incarceration of minorities, and a decline in life standards for people at the bottom of the income distribution. You are NOT the first person who had to hold his nose while voting for the lesser evil, and frankly in his day the GOP candidate looked much better than it does now.

      • mozz
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        There is a persistent mythology among a certain type of Lemmy user (the type who also doesn’t want to vote for Biden) that Clinton was a super-great progressive president and the Democrats moved to the right since then.

        I had one just recently who was telling me about how they and all their progressive friends were super happy about how he balanced the budget

        It’s funny because even leaving Biden out of it, I remember the Carter -> Clinton -> Obama arc, and what progressive and activist people in the mid to late 90s were feeling about it, a little bit differently than that

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        Are we now to the point where we’re deifying Clinton?

        Absolutely not

        All we’re talking about is campaigns, and how likely they are to result in a Dem president.

        Because, as Biden loves to say:

        All that matters is beating trump.

        His policies resulted in incarceration of minorities,

        The crime bill?

        That was literally Biden’s baby… Pretty sure he’s still bragging about it and saying it was a great idea…

        You are NOT the first person who had to hold his nose while voting for the lesser evil,

        Mate, I’ve been doing it for almost 20 years.

        08 Obama is the only time I actually wanted the person I voted for to win.

        Some of the younglings have never even seen let alone participated in an election where we even thought we had a progressive option.

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      151 year ago

      Where do you think ‘the party’ comes from, the people who make these bad decisions? Are you active in local politics? Do you educate yourself and vote in local elections? Most people act like the only election there is, is the presidential election, and wonder why they feel disconnected from the choices. Well there are a million small choices going into who that pool of bad choices is winnowed from, and who is making backroom decisions playing into it, and most people are clueless how any of it works, uninterested to learn, and completely checked out. Well that’s how we end up here.

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        Where do you think ‘the party’ comes from, the people who make these bad decisions?

        Well, the current leader of the DNC was appointed by Joe Biden in 2021…

        The selection of Mr. Harrison, on the heels of Mr. Biden’s victories in Arizona and Georgia in November, reflects the president-elect’s longstanding determination for Democrats to compete in once-red states, a recognition that the party will never sustain an enduring congressional majority without making inroads across the Sun Belt.

        Mr. Biden’s top advisers are also planning to appoint a small group of elected Democrats as vice chairs to reward their support in the campaign and offer them the opportunity to be high-profile surrogates. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Representative Filemon Vela of Texas and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms of Atlanta will serve in the roles.

        https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/politics/jaime-harrison-dnc-chairman.html

        Technically the DNC could vote against the president, but they didn’t even do that to Obama. For details in who the ~477 people are and how it happens:

        https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/23/13703720/dnc-chair-election-rules-members

        From the rest of you comment, I think that link would be beneficial.

        Especially this part:

        Up to 75 slots are appointed by the DNC chair

        You seem to think it’s a lot more democratic than it really is.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Not at all, nor am I saying it’s a good system. But the realities of how individuals shape the system and determine who is making discisions starts at the local level, and happens over time, and it does come to reflect the interests of those who choose to participate, and not those who don’t. This is just the reality of how power operates.

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            So why did you ask

            Where do you think ‘the party’ comes from, the people who make these bad decisions?

            Like you disagreed with me, but now you’re saying basically “of course it’s like what you first said”?

            The DNC is “the party” and the DNC is not governed by democracy.

            That’s the key issue. It’s unelected nepotism and the people being placed in power have no idea how to win elections.

            The president appoints people to the DNC, and the DNC is not shy about saying they have full control over who the next presidential candidate is.

            This isn’t a new problem, and because the only people who can change it benefit from it, they’re not kicking themselves out of power.even if it means trump wins.

            • @[email protected]
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              The solution to this is either reform from within, or by regulation. The former requires that involvement that I talked about, starting at the local level. That is how grassroots works. Reform has happened before. We did not use to even have democratic primaries.

              We could argue about which of those two approaches is more feasible, but I would argue that any regulation from above is going to be incomplete and imperfect, and the people involved are going to game the new system just as they have before to their advantage and to hold onto power. The only long term solution is more involvement from below. Democracy cannot work with the minimal level of involvement that we have come expect.

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      If only there was a post that explained pretty passionately and coherently how Trump wanting to end Democracy and kill a bunch of Palestinians and Ukrainians and Americans, and God knows who else, is objectively more important than all of that

      I’m not trying to be an asshole or dismissive or anything, but you are commenting directly under a pretty clear explanation of why not electing Trump is literal life and death, by saying literally the exact type of “but I don’t feeeeeeeelllll like it, isn’t that important, too” that this person is pretty pointedly discrediting

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          “Bro there’s a guy in the house WHO IS TRYING TO KILL US”

          “First off: WHY are you bein so rude right now. I was in the middle of something.”

      • @[email protected]
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        Maybe be mad at the party who keeps putting forward shitty candidates rather than the people who are fed up with the shitty candidates? You can’t have it both ways, saying every vote matters, and then also say but you have to vote for our old ghoul or you get someone worse. That’s the establishment propaganda that thankfully some people have grown out of. I’m not even American but by God reading all this fucking biden apologist discourse has me feeling so fucking sorry for your country. Yeah trump is bad bit at least he owns who he is. Voting biden at this point would feel like a fucking moral failing. I’d probably still do it bit I’d never stop complaining about it and fuck all of you who expect people not to complain. Your system is blatantly screwing you over and you’re just like “thank you more please. Please not the trump again”

        • mozz
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          I read up until “both ways”. Honestly, I’ve read enough of these comments before to know what you’re getting at.

          To recap whatever comes to mind quick: 40% reduction in emissions by 2030, proper labor people at the NLRB leading to all these union gains, domestic manufacturing and infrastructure, massive increases in corporate tax to pay for all that stuff, gains in wages at the low end, reductions in wealth inequality. Biden’s doing good.

          You might not agree. But, as the nice lady pointed out, it doesn’t really matter. He’s who we got. Biden’s who we got. It’s either this guy or death. You wanna pick a better guy next time? Fuckin fantasic, if you wanna get involved with the Democrats or any other party and try to put up someone better, that sounds like a pretty good idea to me.

          But the fuckin house is on fire and the kids are still inside and you’re out there fistfighting with the firefighters, trying to stop them getting in, and while the whole thing is spreading you’re saying I TOLD YOU WE NEEDED THE DIFFERENT INSURANCE COMPANY YOU GUYS ARE ALL FUCKIN UP YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER

          Trump is the end of any of these better candidates and better than Biden progress that you say are your goal. He is the end of Palestine and Ukraine. He is the end of Hispanics in the United States; he already put some of them in concentration camps. Some of them died in there, some of their kids died in there, some had their kids taken away somewhere and still don’t have them back. He has a detailed plan for how to take over next time, and do much more. He wants to put his political opponents in prison. He wants to make it illegal for the press to criticize him. He wants the military to seize the voting machines. He wants to shoot protestors. He talks about how he shouldn’t have term limits. And, if he dies in office, that whole machinery is available for someone else who’s maybe not the world’s stupidest and most incompetent man to take over, and run it all for real. Like, for real for real.

          Quit fuckin twisting it around. I don’t care. This tumblr person is right. As pertains to this election, this whole thing of “oo nice try but this candidate’s not good enough for me, you should have done better” is a pile of shit, and always has been.

          Either say, yes we should vote against the end of the world, or admit that you’re pushing for the option that’s the end of the world. Quit twisting it around into something else, because that’s the choice.

          • @[email protected]
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            You could have gotten it from the username, emerald dawn 45.

            That could be a description of one of their stupid, ridiculous shirts.

            • @[email protected]
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              81 year ago

              Lmao I’m Canadian and trump is an asshole, but you guys are jokers with your ‘everyone who doesn’t like Biden is a Russian troll’ nonsense.

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            See you in four years when the next fascist is in the Republican Party and the democrats nominate a former KKK member and we’re told by libs to vote for the KKK member or else people will die, and in 8 years when you tell us to vote for the little fascist over the big fascist. “Don’t you understand a lot of fascism now is better than more fascism in the future?” Is what we’ll hear all the libs crying if they get what they want

            • mozz
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              You musta missed the first paragraph

              And, tbh, the rest of it too

              But sure, go on, tell me how Clinton was a champion of progressivism and the party’s been betraying his legacy by moving to the right. Make it lyrical; make it convincing

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                here’s what I’m saying: I’m for killing Hitler before he’s genocides the Jews and everyone should be saying “assassinate Hitler before he kills all the Jews” not “vote for not-Hitler to save the Jews”

                If you truly believe Trump is a genocidal tyrant, he should be dealt with like a genocidal tyrant, not given any quarter

                • mozz
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                  Those aren’t mutually incompatible. I don’t think people should kill him, but the lackluster way the justice department has dealt with him like “oh ho him we have other things going on, we can get to the trial after the election” is a criminal dereliction of duty.

                  Yes, he should be in prison for being a proven-criminal tyrant. Instead we’re taking Lex Luthor on tours of the city and talking about hey he shouldn’t have killed all those people with that stunt last month, and also should we make him mayor, or this other guy, here’s a report on the pros and cons.

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          231 year ago

          Voting biden at this point would feel like a fucking moral failing

          Not voting or voting for trump is an objectively worse moral failing. No good options, choose the one that results in the possibility for positive change. A dictatorship does not have that possibility without a war.

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    161 year ago

    Any attempt to use logic, reasoning, common sense, and nuance with people that think that by NOT doing something, you can bring about the change you want in the world…

    Is a waste of fucking time.

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        Oh, I believe in boycotts. Now let me ask you a question:

        Do you know that someone will get elect with or without your vote? Not voting doesn’t cancel an election. You’re either getting a “genocide supporter” or a GENOCIDE SUPPORTER.

        Because Trump has said that he intends to give Israel everthing they need to win the war:

        The approach of the United States would be that Israel needs to win this war, it was attacked brutally,” Trump’s ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, describing how Trump would act.

        If you’ve been paying attention, Biden has been trying to negotiate a cease-fire. Granted he’s not trying hard enough- he’s no genocide supporter like the bad actors among you accuse him of.

        Your little grassroots movement to boycott an entirely election is going to cause more suffering in Palestine than you cold imagine.

        This isn’t a joke.

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          I always vote. But I vote for who I want to win. Biden’s entire campaign, every single fucking email I get from him, mentions Trump. It’s like he has no identity outside of him, which I know isn’t true because he has done stuff.

          We thought it wouldn’t get worse after Bush, but it did. They’re always gonna toss up a shittier and shittier candidate and setting a low bar for the Left. We should primary the incumbent every fucking term no matter how well they performed in their first term.

  • @[email protected]
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    My state has voted Republican every election since 1968, with a true majority all but twice. So I can actually vote for whoever I like and it won’t make a lick of difference.

    Isn’t the electoral college great?

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    Climate change is the single overriding issue for me. We are beyond out of time to avert damaging levels of warming, and even Biden’s climate policies – by far the most sweeping in the history of the country – are barely adequate to begin steering us away from the absolute worst. If Trump gets in, and eviscerates federal climate policy, and stacks the EPA with oil lobbyists (again), and fills federal courts with science-denying assholes, and sabotages state and local efforts to decarbonize, and destroys all chance of global cooperation on this issue, and (most importantly) dismantles democracy so that it is effectively impossible to vote for a progressive ever again absent a second civil war, then we will be consigning the entire planet to “nightmare hellscape” levels of climate change with no viable pathway out. A second Trump term would add four billion tons of carbon emissions over the next six years. It would “negate – twice over – all of the savings from deploying wind, solar and other clean technologies around the world over the past five years”. And that analysis doesn’t account for increased emissions from Trump policies, just a reversal of what Biden has accomplished. Allowing Trump to win again would not just be national, but global suicide.

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      dismantles democracy so that it is effectively impossible to vote for a progressive ever again absent a second civil war, then we will be consigning the entire planet to “nightmare hellscape” levels of climate change with no viable pathway out.

      Silly friend, you just mentioned the viable pathway out.

      (I agree with everything you said.)

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      Third party voting is as valid as any other vote.

      There’s also tons of people constantly complaining quite loudly about Trump.

      And I’ll be voting for Biden because he’s done a good job as president and I want to see expanded domestic policies like I’ve seen this term.

      These screenshots make a lot of bad, innacurate and overtly divisive points without introducing any relevant or substantial ideas.

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        The real path forward to fixing voting in the US is going to be a long one. People need to find or form grassroots organizations to replace as many local and state positions as possible with actual candidates. Essentially a takeover of the Democrats starting at the lowest levels and moving up from there.

        Some might be demoralized by how long this will take. Others realize that this actually isn’t that hard with teams of motivated people.

        On the Republican side: look at Brandon Herrera and his battle with Tony Gonzales. A youtuber nearly beat the incumbent (lost by 407 votes). The man tapped into people’s anger and very nearly got it.

        Where are lefties on this? Nothing out of the unions? People want change, help them get it.

        • federalreverse-old
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          41 year ago

          The real path is fixing American democracy. There’s a lot to learn from the Democratic systems that came later: Remove the electoral college, remove FPTP, add more transparency into the political system, disable PACs, disable filibusters, replace the voter registration system…

    • @[email protected]
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      191 year ago

      So you’re saying that a vote for Trump is a vote to destroy Israel, because the entire middle east would become uninhabitable to human life.

  • @[email protected]
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    201 year ago

    Minor correction - Trump didn’t win CO in 2016. Not overly important in the grand scheme of things, I’m just from there and I’d have been ashamed if he had.

    The rest of it still stands. I’m involved in local politics and I consistently vote for more progressive candidates, and we’ve had some victories. In a recent example, a homophobic asshat of a city council member gave up his seat to run for mayor. Not only did he lose that race, the woman who won his former seat is a progressive lesbian.

    But you know who I almost never see at council meetings or at events for state level positions? The kind of terminally online leftists who constantly complain about the Democrats being too conservative. Apparently it’s more important to put other people’s rights and lives at risk to make some kind of stand than it is to try to make any real difference in the ways we can. Maybe someday we’ll have an electoral system that allows for more than 2 parties, but we sure as shit won’t if people can’t be bothered to pay attention to anything but the presidential race.

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      I’m also from CO, and I also felt compelled to point out that Trump never won here. I remember thinking on election night back in 2016, “Well, whatever happens, at least it won’t be our fault.”

    • Match!!
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      But you know who I almost never see at council meetings or at events for state level positions? The kind of terminally online leftists who constantly complain about the Democrats being too conservative.

      Oh, I’m there, but it’s nice to know I’m masking well

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    The argument won’t convince them, because their moral stance is simply a justification for laziness. They have no morals, they just don’t want to do shit.

    • archomrade [he/him]
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      41 year ago

      Weird, I’m getting the same argument from those who think liberals are too lazy to push their candidate away from indefensible foreign policy

  • @[email protected]
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    131 year ago

    Watch out for the propaganda. The red and blue party will always try to stay in power and push the narrative that not voting for them is a wasted vote. If you actually want anything to change at all stop supporting them.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      What’s propaganda, is people suggesting that other not vote out of protest.

      Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows how anti-democrat this act is. And there are only a handful of types of people America knows to be anti-democracy….

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      51 year ago

      Watch out for the propaganda

      Found some

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      The system isn’t fair but the only way yo change that is through the system. If you want to have a say go vote in a primary.
      If you want to support Palestine and fight the establishment (aipac, Hillary, …) support Jamaal Bowman.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        The system isn’t fair but the only way yo change that is through the system.

        Point one time in history where a change through the system actually worked. But yea, you can try to vote red and blue out that will do something for sure.

          • @[email protected]
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            61 year ago

            Your freedom wasn’t voted for. Not voting is a mean to cease your direct support to the system

            • @[email protected]
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              101 year ago

              I’ll bet you think you have a swell little “gotcha” moment there. It’s too bad that freedom wasn’t a thing that was ever put to vote… so it can’t be used as an example.

              Name a time- WHERE A VOTE PROCESS WAS ENACTED- where choosing not to vote made change.

              Good god I didn’t think it needed to be spelled out twice.

              • @[email protected]
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                41 year ago

                Not supporting a corrupted government makes a change every time. Pretty much in every election unsupporting rigged parties does directly damage them as they live up to consensus and majority. There are countries not as much brainwashed as usa where third parties win all the time

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                  41 year ago

                  There are countries not as much brainwashed as usa where third parties win all the time

                  And they tend to have better voting systems, like proportional representation or ranked choice voting, none of which will be instituted by a third party getting 3%.

  • @[email protected]
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    241 year ago

    Cold war with a guy who can’t control his emotions and goes online to let the world know about it no matter the time of the day…

    Do you know how many times I’ve heard about your president tweeting this or that, in the last four years? Never. Not a single time. What a blessing that was.