• blazera@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    You are describing things that have already happened, are current events, all under democrats, and them promising more of the same.

    I did vote, for the candidate that opposes the genocide.

    • skye@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Since when are democrats the ones pushing abortion bans? Since when are they the ones wanting to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord? Since when are blue states the ones banning books that contain any mention of queer people?

      From my knowledge blue states have been doing anything but those things. It’s red states that are doing all sorts of shady shit, and it’s Trump literally saying he will: -Withdraw the U.S. from the Climate Accord -Appoint RFK as head of medicine -Get rid of education department -Withdraw spending in Ukraine and talk to his lover Putin -Increase tariffs on EU which in turn will just hurt U.S. economy

      you can blabber all day about how democrats are doing X Y Z wrong, but Trump is doing all of that PLUS more and way worse. No one likes this man, not even his own party members.

      But I guess the best way to deal with a truck about to hit you is to close your eyes and hope for the best

      • blazera@lemmy.world
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        4 days ago

        Roe got overturned. Climate change is continuing to accelerate and democrats did a lot to make that happen, thats a long discussion though.

        close your eyes and hope for the best

        Again, I voted. I dont care that you think that a vote for a progressive candidate doesnt count, i took action.

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          The American education system has failed you. I’m assuming by “a progressive candidate” in this case you mean a third party, but in a first-past-the-post voting system, voting third-party is a protest vote. At best, people voting third-party shows that voters don’t have confidence in the major parties, but at worst it helps your least preferred of the two major parties win the election because you’re not begrudgingly voting for the candidate you hate less. A third-party president is an unimaginable upset.

          But if you’re not living in a swing state nobody cares how you vote for president anyway. Hopefully you got a good option for Congress in the primaries. That’s the only thing I had any chance of influencing at a federal level for this election cycle. I’m not in a swing state and in the final election I only got one option for senate and all one candidate could say was that they weren’t the other candidate.

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            4 days ago

            None of this is news to me, i know how shit FPTP is and thats why i support getting rid of it. While everyone else that hates it for some reason insists on keeping it.

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          3 days ago

          I don’t think you understand. This election wasn’t about expressing your moral superiority by not voting for Genocider A or Double Genocider B

          This election was about preventing Double Genocider B from winning. You could only do that by voting Genocide A and sucking up the morally fucked choice. You failed, miserably. Had you voted for A, in 4 years you would have had the chance to happily vote for any third fourth or fifth party your heart desired. Good luck with that now when Trump brcomes God King.

          Good fucking job on wasting your vote away and letting both Ukraine and Palestine get fucked. And the climate.

          You are a fucking imbecile

          • blazera@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            For me, the election was about preventing genocide. Again, it is not an option for me.

            in 4 years you would have had the chance to happily vote for any third fourth or fifth party your heart desired.

            I get told this every 4 years. Its always next election.