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As shitty as it is, this country 1. Isn't designed in such a way that would allow a third-party candidate a genuine chance of winning and 2. Has too many centrists that will vote for Biden regardless. Trump has repeatedly garnered heavy support in Republican polls, so they're pretty much almost all in on him. Splitting the blue vote between Biden and whoever else will only lead to a Trump victory after which we might not even be ABLE to vote in 2028.

I'm legitimately having a panic attack. These airheaded anarcho-kiddies are genuinely going to land us all in camps.

biden's doing literally nothing to stop states from criminalizing lgbt people's existence emilie-pain

their fears about a trump presidency are valid but i wish these libs would stop putting their hopes in the DNC when its clear they have zero interest in running a candidate that isn't complete dogshit

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i don't see how these bozos imagine--after witnessing the biden administration enthusiastically sell out the muslim / arab sympathizing portion of the dem coalition to watch their families and friends be slaughtered by organized genocide--they can expect any protection from it going forward. that is the lesson here: if they can do it to any of us this easily and eagerly, they can and will do it to all of us as soon as some ghoulish and inhumane calculation of imperial preservation triggers it. unless, of course these specific bozos imagine themselves different / better / more worthy of protection than "those people". which is very possible.

us-foreign-policy

as someone here once quipped, "We gotta do genocide over there, so we don't have genocide over here!"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

and the not protecting abortion, and letting covid run rampant, and breaking the rail strike, and continuing the obama-trump border fascism, and...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

indeed, though those are all things that the media has been able to obscure for many americans using some managed narratives. the palestinian genocide has pierced the veil of the spectacle by virtue of its sustained and incredible violence for so many months. the hasbara campaign has been firing on all cylinders, but it's not enough. too much footage is getting out. and the administration's only move is to insist that we all deny what we are seeing and try to ban the most visible and accessible technology that is delivering it to people's screens.

its hard to overstate how much less control US empire has today over what people are seeing compared to 2003 and the iraq war.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

if we dont vote all trans people will be genocided! what do you mean theyre currently doing that in florida, obviously itd be way more genocide if biden wasnt in charge!