• Stern@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Dems will vote for Biden because he’ll only drink the blood of one baby while Trump drinks the blood of two.

    I get the harm reduction argument but jesus fuck we have 300 million+ people in this country are those two really the best we have to offer?

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      7 months ago

      Welcome to two-party America. You get to choose between a malicious tyrant, an apparently less malicious tyrant, or waste your vote. Those are your options. Choose carefully, you’re stuck with them for four years!

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        7 months ago

        Vote for 100% hitler or 90% hitler, or don’t vote and actually get double hitler. What a system 'murica has.

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          The first election I voted in was a vote for the ‘lesser evil’. It’s been that way since. Maybe we could try, idk, a non-evil candidate? The evil has somehow grown steadily every time we’ve elected a ‘lesser evil’. Maybe there is something better we could do than legitimize evil. I’m not saying not vote, but clearly we need a rework of this whole thing.

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            Need to get to get the money out of politics. Theres so much corruption finding the starting point is dounting but I think a good start is heavy participation in getting rid of our worst senators and maybe making a real chance at undoing the damage of all the legalized bribery. Then maybe, just maybe, we can start to make real change happen.

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        And probably 8 years. Also have to decide which party you’d rather have in office at the end of those 8 years, since we seem to switch back and forth between presidents.

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      If Repubs would quit voting for white supremacist totalitarianism I would be able to quit voting for white supremacist corporatism and vote instead for someone who is actually progressive. Or if we had score voting or something sane. Unfortunately the only rational option is to vote against the totalitarianism.

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      So long as both sides suck capitalism’s cock, that’s what you get. Plus most of the 300+ million are too tired, dumb, or blinded to care about anything other than meaningless talking points. So we are left to vote for an imperfect candidate that is less likely to make the hellscape worse. The stakes are high, but i can see why fatalism just sets in and people say “fuck it.”

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      The only way to maintain relevance and funding as a major political party is to court people with all of the money, so both major parties represent the small minority that makes up the wealthy and ultra-wealthy.

      Leftist ideas are popular but we cannot vote for them because both major parties stand for different variations of Capitalism.

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      3rd option, use excellent conversation and discussion skills to convince Americans the severity of this problem. This will scare the politicians and they will start getting serious about climate change.

      But if that doesn’t work out, vote for Biden cuz he’s closer to the Target. This will result in less casualties to climate change for the time being.