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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yes, but what about [single political issue here that Trump is as bad or worse on]?

Clearly this means we should vote for [candidate least likely to win but most likely to split the vote of the non-fascist party]!

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"As an upper-middle-class white male, I just don't like politics, so I don't vote."

Fuck you, you selfish little pricks.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I vote now.

I don't think I was selfish before ... Just ignorant and/or sheltered.

I don't think I disagree with your point, but the messaging is unlikely to convert many non voters.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

tbf, if they're on a politics com and bragging about not voting, chances are that they're pretty far from where you were at if you were just ignorant and/or sheltered.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Well... You're not wrong.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm just yelling at the choir on Lemmy, I believe. With my actual friends, especially married ones with daughters who say this stuff, I approach it differently. "You always tell me you disdain deadbeat dads, but not voting is another form of failing your daughter. You should be a champion for her rights man, not sitting on the sidelines trying to play nice with 'both sides.'"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I can't believe how apolitical I was before our daughter was born. I mean I'm not even in the US or a man but Jesus fucking Christ having kids makes you so invested into everything that you cannot not be political. It's not even a real choice unless you are, as you phrase it, a deadbeat parent.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

"You see, if fascism wins, then socialism will magically win next. It's a law of nature, like a pendulum. It Is Known."

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It seems obvious, but half the country thinks Harris controls weather machines and hits Florida with hurricanes for some reason. They show up and vote, because they believe this nonsense deeply.

Please acknowledge the threat and act accordingly. If you are in a swing state, please vote for the rest of us. Your vote matters so very much.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not half. It's a minority in this country. It SEEMS like half cause the electoral college is a moronic system.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

there was an interview where a woman said something to the effect of "they're controlling the weather and letting the hurricane hit red districts because they can't rig the election otherwise". like yeah hacking motherfucking weather is somehow easier than hacking ballots.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m pretty sure she was responsible for convicting felons.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Oh she made people felons alright

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mostly black people.

Not like there's an unclear choice when you Americans vote soon, but pleas don't forget that part. Most two party elections are choosing the lesser of two shit options.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Sometimes they get carried away and forget the Democrat party is still a right wing party. I'm not happy voting for Harris, but I'm happy voting against Trump (or even happy voting for Walz)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Incorrect.
She's got a shitload of those.
She's just on the delivering end, not the receiving.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (19 children)

And yet, here we are. How is this even a choice?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Because conspiratorial thinking has flourished, creating a whole set of fantasy worlds to believe in where anything can happen as long as it proves you were right all along when you were an asshole.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

“Someone that clean has to be dirty”

— maga, probably

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have literally been told that, about myself, by conservatives. This was while I was in The Navy, and holding a Top Secret security clearance. They didn't approve of their daughter dating a "hippie." (That was their descriptor not mine.)

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

This is a real hard chart to follow... Are both sides the same??

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Another thing that gets no attention is that she is one of the few members of congress who didn't invest in individual stocks but just does index funds to prevent conflicts of interest/insider trading. I really wish democrats would do a better job of contrasting Trump's corruption with theirs but then again I guess they gotta pick something and run with it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (21 children)

Sounds boring.

Personally, I think the world needs major powers with a bit more crazy to 'em. You really wanna live in a world where you go to bed and wake up to the same thing? Selling nuclear secrets is the spice of life.

Edit: Really? I honestly thought I was laying the sarcasm on a little thick. Whatever. lol

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I first read this as a bulleted list and got confused.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

0 apologies for convicting drug users into forced labour.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

News Flash, there are other elections that happen in the US every year that are more influential and important for national issues than the presidency.

Maybe take your weird hatred of the failure-of-the-democratic-party-not-being-as-progressive-as-you-want energy and focus that on:

  • getting local city councilors, mayors and county clerks etc. elected who represent your political ideology,
  • getting state legislators and other officials elected who represent your political ideology,
  • getting judges elected (where applicable) who understand the codified and written law and are willing to execute it as written,
  • maybe even (SHOCK) getting congresspeople elected who match your political ideology.

I know this might be hard to understand, but there are a myriad of elected officials that comprise our federal system and focusing on THE PRESIDENCY alone will never make anything meaningfully change.

And for anyone who skews even the least bit toward NOT WANTING FACISM to take hold in this country of The United States of America, just fucking vote for Kamala Harris you stupid asshole.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That we know of (points to forehead)

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