• Why9@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    To all those people who keep saying that in order to not have Trump back in 2025, everyone must suck it up and vote Biden, this is why that just can’t happen.

    Sure Trump is bad in many ways but Biden’s insistence on helping Netenyahu no matter what will lose him the election.

    I’m not making a case for Trump, btw. Both things can be bad at the same time. For people who are seeing Gazans die for no reason, Biden cannot come back into office again. Does that mean we want Trump? Of course not, and that’s why voting for anyone else makes sense.

    If voting for anyone else means you’re voting for Trump, so be it!

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        5 months ago

        Not how US Elections work. Only the winner writes the laws, if you want election reform then vote Dem. If you want Trump, don’t vote dem. Those are the only two options, voting third party does nothing to help. The cumulative sum of all EC Votes given to third party candidates in the USA for 47 years is 0, and we’re risking a lot by not firmly establishing DNC leadership as the lesser evil.

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          No. Biden must be worthy of the office on his own merits. Or else this voting thing is useless. the people cannot hold their officials accountable if they must vote for them. That’s just an oligarchy with extra steps.

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            5 months ago

            No. You have a responsibility to help the people that you can. Doing nothing while a worse person takes office is the same as you advocating for harm, directly.

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                5 months ago

                Trump is leading in the majority of polls, you’re not going to be able to pressure anybody when he wins.

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                  That’s irrelevant. Trump is not the President. Pressuring him will do us no good.

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                    5 months ago

                    Lmao, feigning ignorance of a US Election in a comment thread that literally started by talking about the US Election.

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            5 months ago

            So who’s worthy of the office that has a chance to win in November then?

            Let’s see you name someone.

            It’s easy to suggest people not vote- but let’s see you offer up a candidate in Biden’s stead since you hate him so much.

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        Voting for a third party, especially if you are in a key swing state, is a bad idea. If you are a registered democrat you’ll have to vote democrat to keep Biden.

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          Voting third party in a swing state is an amazing idea. It shows that they will lose voters if they ignore their voterbase.

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            It’s good to see you finally being openly honest with your wish to fuck up America.

            Heads up: your little group of accelerationists don’t represent the Democratic voter base, by the way. You have already been counted out demographically as they know that every four years there will be people that will buy into conservative propaganda and not vote.

            Just like what’s happening here.

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                “While originally used by the far left, the term has, in a manner strongly distinguished from original accelerationist theorists, been used by right-wing extremists.”

                Unless your boy is a conservative posing as a left wing propagandist, I’m not accusing anyone of being a “terrorist.“

                What you’re all doing though, is your very best to ensure this country collapses under Trump. And you’re all insisting everyone not vote for the one person with the chance to keep him from overthrowing America over a single issue you didnt even give a shit about less than a year ago…

                That means….

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                  A. That’s your opinion. Nobody here has said they want the country to collapse. Accusing them of accelerationism is unfounded at best.

                  B. Left wing violent accelerationism very much exists in extreme anarchist movements. Not sure why wiki ignored that. But the number of non violent accelerationists is incredibly small. As an ideology it quickly moves people along into violence as the only way to truly move faster.

                  C. It would be entirely inside their ideology for a conservative accelerationist to depress the vote by any means. They want the democracy gone.

                  So, again. You do not get to accuse people of being terrorists or political extremists just because they won’t vote for your fearless leader. It’s ridiculous, self serving, and bad faith in a democracy.

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                    “They want democracy gone”

                    You mean like the idiots shouting at everyone not to vote so Trump gets the win?

                    You’re not fooling anyone.

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              Voting for Biden now is taking the brakes off a car heading towards a cliff.

              The Democrats will never ever change course from becoming an extreme right wing party. Actually it’s too late.

              Democrats are on board with Genocide and their immigration policy is at Trump levels. There is nothing to gain anymore with Biden winning.

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                And voting for Trump is what exactly? Because that is what you are accomplishing with your propaganda here. You’re getting Trump elected.

                And everyone knows when that happens, you will disappear from here and resurface as a victim like the rest of the far left.

                Every four years…