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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're mixing up US election results with unrelated things.

Everything is related. US election results both do and don't affect a lot of things. Washington policy impacts much around the world that you would consider "unrelated", but at the same time that policy doesn't really depend on the result of elections as long as the same two parties keep winning because the same permanent security state and foreign policy establishment is still there regardless who is "elected". Because elections in the US (and in all "liberal democracies") are a theater for the masses more than anything else. The same capitalist class still pulls the strings. I just have a difficult time understanding why you would go to bat so hard for the racist and very likely senile figurehead currently sitting in the oval office considering under him objectively more people have died and the situation has gotten significantly worse around the world.

So vote for who you want, it won't make a difference in the outcome except that you are yet again validating the legitimacy of the bourgeoisie's little shell game they call elections, but don't insult our intelligence by trying to portray the genocider-in-chief as a "lesser evil". Many of us are also in vulnerable demographics, a lot of our comrades here are queer or belong to one or another marginalized group, we know the danger of living under a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. But that doesn't mean we have to fall for their electoral bait and switch over and over again. Fool me once...

this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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