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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by AVincentInSpace@pawb.social to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home.

Not voting isn't going to stop the genocide in Gaza. The US will continue to funnel them arms no matter which candidate wins this November. Trump practically campaigns on how much he hates the Jews and he's publicly told Israel to "finish up their war". He'll also make life a living hell for anyone who isn't a straight cisgender male back here at home.

A vote for a candidate is not an endorsement of them or their policies, it's a statement that you like their policies more than the other guy's, and "sticking it to liberals" and "refusing to support genocide" (that's not what voting for Biden is doing, by the way -- a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide and a vote for neither is an endorsement of both) is not more important than keeping the furthest right politician America has ever seen out of office.

How incredibly privileged do you have to be to see an entire national election as what will happen in the Middle East and ignore Trump's campaign promises to wipe transgender Americans off the map, and further, to not realize that the same thing will happen in the Middle East regardless of which candidate wins?

I hate Biden as much as every other leftist here. But I'll still vote for him because Trump is worse. If there's a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too.

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[-] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 8 months ago

What, are liberals not willing to fight (physically) to get their democracy back from a dictatorship?

[-] the_third@feddit.de 21 points 8 months ago

Eh, my country has its experience with the "dude is a little bit loony but we'll manage him" approach. Led to a bit of restructuring, first of the German government, then of the entire continent of Europe.

Seeing how you guys have nukes and all that, I'd prefer you wouldn't try to verify our results.

[-] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Or maybe Americans would be more successful than the Hotel Kaiserhof in Berlin was.

[-] bobburger@fedia.io 19 points 8 months ago

Lol, yeah I'm going to organize an armed rebellion against a country that can shoot me in the chest with a fucking rocket covered in swords from the other side of the world while I'm chilling on my deck with my family.

[-] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 8 months ago

Just put on a red hat and you'll be fine.

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Worked for the average German in the 1930s-40s

[-] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

I mean, obviously it didn't work for them since citizens weren't able to stop it before other parts of the world started intervening. The world can't feasibly intervene with the largest military on the world this time though. I mean, they could try, but it would be the end of all human life.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Are you? If so, give me a place and date! I'll be right there!

If not, then shut the fuck up!

[-] Jentu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

You sound like a cop.

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