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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Stop. Fucking. Writing. Like. This.

Also:

Voting. For. Someone. Does. Not. Mean. You. Endorse. Their. Actions.

IT. LITERALLY. FUCKING. DOES. AAAAAAAAHHHHH.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop. Fucking. Writing. Like. This.

that's how adults in the room write when making hard decisions smuglord

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What 👏 about 👏 writing 👏 like 👏 this?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Based 👏 as 👏 hell 👏

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop. Fucking. Writing. Like. This.

He didn't do a SIIIIIIGH at least. took-restraint

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

If I speak like a Sorkin character hard enough, it will surely make up for my total lack of substance!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

giving someone political power isn't an endorsement of their political positions, silly!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only in American can voting be nonpolitical

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

if voting for someone isn't endorsing their actions then what is it?

Just something democrats deserve because they're not the other guy?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

smuglord: "Of course! I mean, what are those minorities going to do? Vote Republican?"

(Don't tell him about Texas, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Florida)

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Voting. Is. Not. An. Endorsement. Some blood gods are better than others. Enjoy being "morally pure" you privileged dipshits during Moloch's second term

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago

Voting for them actually does endorse their actions as them being our so-called representatives are litterally acting in our name using our tax dollars to do evil shit. The DNC is excuding privaliage if they think we are going to re-endorse their bad actor for another term. Bvoting is the only performative say we realy have in this system.

And maybe-later-honey YOU. DON'T. OWN. US. YOUR. PARTY. IS. NOT. ENTITLED. TO. OUR. VOTES. WHEN. YOU. BACK. FASCISTS. AND. ASSIST. IN. GENOCIDE. AND. CRIMES. AGAINST. HUMANITY.

RUN. BETTER. CANDIDATES. JACK. whywhywhywhywhy ASSES.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not religious, but I am praying for the black wings of the god of death to descend on these two. Not that it would make a difference but at least it would end this particular game of charades

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be very funny if they both had strokes at the same time during a debate

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Xi pls we need you to use the communist heart attack gun xi-plz

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yes they are both genocidal, but ...

god damn it you guys

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

Voting for someone gives them a mandate. This is electoral politics 101.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Biden wants to ethnically cleanse 100% of Gaza while Trump wants to ethnically cleanse 101% of Gaza, so I'm forced to pick Biden as the lesser evil.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

102% (with a 2% margin of error)

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

hope you enjoy feeling morally pure

yep, feels pretty nice to maintain my morals. Everytime genocide Joe gets up to some shit I can at least say to myself "I never voted for that fuck." Probably should try to run a candidate that's not completely immoral if that's something you're worried about.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

nice to see where the bar is

also voting for someone is literally endorsing them

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

"yes, I voted for Hitler, but the alternative was even worse!"

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

smuglord Ackshully yes I would participate in voting if it were Mussolini vs Hitler. If you don't vote you don't get to complain!!

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

no more half measures walter

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

If Donald is so dangerous why don't you just Content Warning him?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Militarism, policing, immigration, healthcare (covid), inflation, leftist mobilization or lack thereof, weaponization of RICO laws against leftists and marginalized people, carbon pollution and fracking/drilling

Biden is literally worse than Trump

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Also he nominated the current Fed chair so you can blame the rising interest rates on Biden too

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

You know, they’re called liberals

Yet they seem to be anti-liberation

smuglord

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

football-lucy

They can't keep getting away with it NOOOOO

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Biden is literally worse

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Democrats: We can’t have anyone else because only Biden has high electability

Voters: I don’t want to vote for him

Democrats: NOOOOOO BUT HE HAS HIGH ELECABILITY!!!!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This. Is. An. Investment. In. Democracy.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

By voting for any old piece of shit with a (D) this time, we incentivize the party to listen to our needs and run someone better next time.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voting. For. Someone. Does. Not. Mean. You. Endorse. Their. Actions.

Yes, some genocidal freaks actually ARE worse than other genocidal freaks, and Eichmann IS still worse than Röhm. But I hope all you privileged dipshits enjoy feeling "morally pure" during Eichmann's second term. 🙄

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

God damn. I know the John Brown quote is cliche, but god damn.

Just what the entire fuck. Like yeah, of course they would, but they've never just said it out loud before like this.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

First they came for the Palestinians and I spoke out in favour because otherwise there will be a dang cheeto in the white house.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This will be the most important election in our history. Except for the last one. And the one before that. And the one before that. And the one before that. And the one before that. And the one before that. And the one before that. And the one before that. And the one before that...

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Further down he writes it "would be nice if a third party or a better candidate was viable, but they're just not".

Me, while I am shitting on the floor: "Sure it would be nice if the floor was clean and not full of shit, but it sadly is, so treating it like a massive toilet is sadly the only viable solution. I wish the floor wasn't full of shit too! If only there was a way to do something else, but sadly there isn't."

Edit: Like a bout of diarrhea, this analogy ran away from me. I am trying illustrate how, if you believe in representative democracy, then voting for any other reason than believing a candidate represents your values adequately, you will be poisoning the well.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

What does this guy think REPRESENTATIVE democracy is?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Libs. Have. Done. The. Period. Thing. To. Fucking. Death.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Didn't know I, a queer Jew, was "privileged". And I'm not going to take lectures in complacency from a democrat.

You literally just won the election, and spent it all twiddling your thumbs because you were satisfied with that alone.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i didn't vote for either of these dudes last time and i won't this time either

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

vote for the Adult In The Room that Makes Hard Decisions and Gets Shit Done, like in the Prestige TV treats.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

> suit in pfp

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