The discourse on American politics sometimes devolves to "Leftists who won't vote" & "MAGA Republicans" teaming up to "getting revenge on liberals".
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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Nope, it's actually a vote for a third party. Vote for Biden is a vote for Trump. See how dumb that sounds?
A third party has literally no chance of winning. By voting for a third party or abstaining from voting, you are taking a vote away from Biden and thereby aiding Trump.
If you’re too ignorant to understand that, then I can’t help you
The fact that you’d rather let Trump win to stick it to Biden than try to prevent literal fascists from taking over our nation says a lot about you as a person.
it's my vote to give and it's biden's vote to earn. it's not like he doesn't know what cornel west voters want. he just doesn't care to earn that vote.
So you’d rather let Trump win, got it.
no. you're putting words in my mouth.
you don't know my identity.
i'm not leaving my home. and america is already fascist.
i have friends. i'm not scared. you aren't going to threaten and bully me into doing something immoral.
Funny how libs rarely have to compromise their core values to vote for Dem candidates, while your party leadership aggressively prevents the left from gaining any purchase in the party organizational structure, but you have the gall to demand our votes while showing zero sensitivity for the left’s moral concerns about Dem projects like the ongoing extirpation of Palestinians in Gaza—not to mention the left’s very reasonable observation that concessionary voting for neolibs since Carter has created a ratcheting of American politics to the far right.
I don’t believe Trump will break America, because the Democratic Party clearly doesn’t. No party that believed that so much was on the line would prevent a competitive primary and support a VP candidate with the lowest approval rating in history, who has no constituency behind her, when the top of the ticket is 81 years old.
If you’ve bought the lib line on voting this cycle, that’s great for you. But, you should stop shaming principled leftists like PP for not buying it.
Actions speak louder then words.
"We are who we pretend to be, so we should be careful who we pretend to be."
If the only real political input we have is used to support the leading liberal candidate, then it's reasonable to identify them as a 'Liberal Voter' regardless of who or what they claim to the contrary.
I'm a Hoosier born in Indianapolis, the same home-state as Kurt Vonnegut and Eugene Debs, and I've read 6 of his novels. You seem to be the misguided one in this scenario.
when do politicians bear the responsibility of their own actions?
no. we have to ensure the safety of the palestinian peopl and their liberation regardless of what happens november 2
i won't be helping trump win. i'll be voting against him.
same thing i do now. agitate, educate, organize.
i don't talk about my personal organizing here. go find an org and help out.
no. i'm telling you that's the best way to find out what i do.
you will have better luck blindly joining leftist orgs than asking me for more details here.
i don't like walls of text. if you don't want to talk to me, please don't
Great, and what are you going to say to all of the LGBT folk who get legislated out of existence because of your failure to protect them?
I do what I can to protect vulnerable people. I don't believe voting accomplishes that.
Voting third party is no vote at all. Therefore you are refusing to combat Trump, and so are complicit in his victory if it happens.
You are just as much to blame as the Reps if he wins.
any vote that is not for trump is a vote against trump
False. If you do not vote Biden, you are throwing away a vote against Trump. Voting third party is no vote at all.
Beep boop
this is election misinformation. my vote must be counted just like everyone else.
no. everyone is only responsible for their own actions. I'll be voting against trump
Then vote Biden, or you’re not voting at all. Third party means nothing.
Beep boop
this is election misinformation. my vote must be counted like anybody else.