• Adalast@lemmy.world
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    I would genuinely cry. He is older than both of them and could literally run circles around them, both mentally and physically. I would 100% vote for Bernie and be fine with it. The vote for Biden is because the armpit of hell that I live in doesn’t do ranked voting and Trump will wreck the planet. A rotting potato powering a computer core running ChatGPT left ignored on the resolute desk for 4 years would be a better alternative to these two fuckwits.

    Seriously, why did they have to run Joe? If they had run someone in their 50’s or 60’s they would win on “well, he isn’t as old as Trump” alone. If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them. The only reason “he’s fucking old” doesn’t stick to Trump is because he behaves like a horny 15 year old jacked up on cocaine and Twitter.

    Just… FML.

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        But at least they don’t automatically get effectively all the power after winning a simple majority. That’s… something, at least. I want to cry.

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          after winning a simple majority

          don’t listen to them; our systems beats theirs because you don’t even need a majority to win over here thanks to the electoral college and gerrymandering. lol

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          if they have an actual majority (more than 50%), they would but luckily that’s not the case… yet

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            Yeah, because we have more than two parties, so a simple majority isn’t automatically an absolute one. But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

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              But if you group the far right with the increasingly far right “conservatives”, it looks much more bleak.

              we’ve been in that situation since the 1980’s; our center-right and our far right are our only choices for president now.

              i used to think europe’s democracies were ahead since they carried on with progressive initiatives the americans stopped doing in the 1970’s, but now i wonder if europe’s lurch rightwards is them catching up to the americans.

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                On one side of Europe there were French, on other - Soviet.

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                  I’m an American so when we say “Europe” we assume it’s understood that I mean Western Europe. Lol

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          Then cry. And then go knock doors and tell people why it’s important to vote the way they should not because of one person, but for the future of the country and their own livelihood. Despair is only displaced by activism. All it takes for evil to succeed is for us to stand by and let it happen.

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        most of yall dont have democracy and the far right always win in amerikkka because the only options are the two wings of the far right party.

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      If they had run someone under the age of 40 I imagine every leftist voter under the age of 50 would have been voting for them.

      cough