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    As a foreigner I never understood the novote sentiment in the US. You aren’t voting for either candidate because you dislike them, so who would you actually vote for? AOC? RFK Jr? Bernie? Does your ideal candidate even exist in reality yet? All a no vote does is take away your own rights in your country, while the rest of the world moves on without you.

    For what it’s worth, both parties can be trash but one party actually can be shamed to doing the right thing once in a while.

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      Non voters are either children or morons.

      Rational adults realise that this is the system and you have to operate inside of it despite the compromises.

      Now, you want to start changing the system, start a grassroots campaign, get into politics to change the system, more power to you!

      But sitting on your ass crying about both sides while doing nothing, you are simply an immature moron.

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      I’m with you. I love everything George Carlin did, except for his anti vote bits. Somehow voting is supposed to make you compliant in the current going on in government, is the argument.

      The only way to change things is too consistently vote until the baby boomers are thinned out of their electoral advantage.

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        Carlin isn’t wrong on the crucial parts.

        The system is broken and cannot be fixed by voting. It must be dismantled and replaced.

        But while we get started on the dismantling and replacing, maybe vote so that the current system doesn’t deteriorate, break down and gets replaced by something worse before you have the chance to bring about meaningful and positive change.

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      Who I would vote for would be, for example, the third-party candidate I’m actually voting for.

      The democrats can’t be “shamed” into doing the right thing. They might be able to be pressured into doing it, and establishing a credible threat that you’ll withhold your vote if they do something unconcionable is one way of exerting that pressure. They have exactly zero interest in the concerns of people whose votes are guaranteed.

      And if they are completely unresponsive regardless, then the only hope of having our concerns listened to is to unseat them, by means of a third party. No longer how unlikely or how long it takes, it’s still more likely than the possibility that Biden randomly starts caring about Palestinians out of the kindness of his heart.

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    • Leftists are abandoning Joe Biden and this will ensure Donald Trump’s victory

    • Actually, Joe Biden is very popular and he’s going to win in a landslide. Anyone who says otherwise is a Russian shill.

    Rolling these two ideas in my brain like a pair of baoding balls

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      Where have you heard the second one? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say that.

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        It’s kind of implied by memes like this one. If you suspect any criticism of Biden is coming from Russian disinfo mills, it follows that there is little/no organic/genuine criticism of Biden.

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      It’s legitimately possible the left abandons him and he picks up enough conservatives to win anyways.

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      Never seen anyone but the “Biden needs to earn my getting off my couch on election night” leftists say the second one

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    Having standards is a bad thing, just vote for your team even if you’d hate what they do.

    Republicans did that decades ago, and now have trump.

    The only thing stupider than them doing it, is all the “moderates” saying it’s easier to convince millions of people to follow them off the cliff than convince the DNC to start running candidates that Dem voters want to vote for…

    The fact that trump has won 50% of his elections and looks to be 2/3 in a few months should make everyone reconsider the quality of candidates we’re running against him.

    Not getting mad at the people honest about the situation while there’s still time to do literally anything to prevent trump.

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      The fact that trump has won 50% of his elections and looks to be 2/3 in a few months should make everyone reconsider the quality of candidates we’re running against him.

      After the Dems last lost an election, you got Biden as your next candidate. Why are you expecting this approach to suddenly produce a candidate you would like?

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        I don’t, that’s my point.

        “Blue no matter who” always ends up with candidates more conservative than we want.

        So even like in 2020 where we all and together and get a Dem president, House, and Senate, nothing gets done.

        Because too many Dem incumbents just don’t agree with the party platform.

        The only time the party pushes is when progressives try to have standards.

        The only result is the party keeps getting more and more conservative. It’s not a valid long term strategy

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          I think you’ve misunderstood me. Last time the Democrats lost an election, you got Joe Biden as the next candidate. Why would making the Dems lose this election produce a more progressive candidate?

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              Sure there is, but too many progressive voters just seem to be unwilling to act to get them. It takes long term planning.

              Let’s look at Barack Obama, a man whose political career to President was considered to be extremely fast, and who was considered to be very inexperienced and a shockingly fast rise.

              He was elected President of the Harvard Law Review in 1990, 18 years before he would become President of the USA. In 1992 he directed a voter registration project/drive in Chicago that was successful enough to be big news. In 1996 he was elected to the Illinois State Senate, and in 2000 he lost the primary for a US Representative position.

              But here’s a very important part: in 2003 he became chairman of a state committee when Democrats regained a majority. This allowed him to have some legislative successes, specifically in the field of racial profiling. Hmm, that ain’t gonna be important in Illinois ever again, is it?

              With that legislative success, he was able to win the primary for Senate, but even then, this essentially required the incumbent in that slot to be gone. Then he was a Senator for merely four years before becoming President. And also notably for those who act like the DNC simply anoints candidates, he beat Hillary in the primary, despite her being favored by most of the entrenched elite of the party.

              And the important thing to remember is this was a startlingly fast political career, considered by everyone to be a meteoric rise, an outlier. He was in politics for only 12 years before becoming President, though he did politics adjacent things even earlier. A more expected career would probably go for 20 to 30 years before becoming President.

              So you want voter action for more progressive candidates? It starts a quarter century ago, in state-level offices like the Illinois Senate. It starts by getting those candidates elected over goddamn decades.

              Politics is like farming, you can’t show up in harvest season, look around, and go ‘where are all the crops?’ and then be pissy that there’s gonna be a famine this winter. You gotta show up in the planting season, plant those crops, take care of them, keep them healthy and watered and fertilized as they grow, so you can finally get your food when harvest time comes.

              So you want to complain about the lack of candidates, well here’s my question: where the fuck were you all in planting season a quarter of a century ago? Cause these crops take a goddamn while to grow.

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              You are not limited to just your vote on the day of presidential elections in terms of your political engagement

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              There seems to be no voter action that can produce a more progressive candidate.

              It’s almost like they don’t want you to have one.

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            Because, they’re saying, WINNING sure didn’t do progressives any favors.

            FWIW, we ran Hillary Clinton as a moderate candidate and lost.

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              If neither winning nor losing does progressives any favours, then there’s no issue with trying to make the least bad realistic option win

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                Only if you never think more than an election ahead.

                If you don’t, and always blindly vote D just because it’s not R…

                How is that different than what lead the Republican party to trump?

                Why do you think it’ll be different this time?

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                  Only if you never think more than an election ahead.

                  So how many elections are you expecting that the Dems must lose in order to start fielding candidates you like, or for another party that does so to take their place? It doesn’t matter how many they lose if it never moves the needle your way, so you’ll have to be quite persuasive that this will achieve something that’s worth capitulating to the American right for a decade or longer.

                  How is that different than what lead the Republican party to trump?

                  Because of the actual outcomes during the four years between each election and the fact that you can protest and write and whatever else you want for improvement during that time. Your vote does have to be your entire political engagement.

                  Does this suck? Yes. Does the Republicans winning do literally anything to fix any of it? No. For that you need the Overton window to shift so far that the Republican party dies and the new two-party system has the Dems on the right, or you need a new electoral system. Neither of these is accomplished by the Dems losing.

                  Why do you think it’ll be different this time?

                  I don’t think it’ll be different this time because the candidates have already been picked. We already both know what the options are. Unfortunately, “no different” is a lot better than the other option. That’s why I’m advocating voting for damage control on the day. Vote against the worst option, because that’s how FPTP works.

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              I’m gonna say (as someone that was sucked into the psychological torture machine that was the conservative media loop in 2016) that Hillary didn’t lose for being a moderate. Trump was by far at his strongest in 2016; his insanity was a basically unknown factor and he did a legitimately great job seeming to flip the bird at ‘the system’, and the conservative propaganda machine had a LOT of points to attack Hillary with that had nothing to do with her moderate politics. Trump promised the world and had all the charisma to sell the world too, and Hillary… I honestly can’t remember anything about her platform at all.

              In my personal opinion, Hillary could absolutely have won that election if the Democrats hadn’t been complacent about it. Maybe not a landslide victory, but I think it would have been a very solid win.

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                Hillary had a weird double-whammy of underestimating the appeal of Trump for many that led to losing control of the monster she helped make, along with having a long list of insults ready for anyone who didn’t want her to be the Democratic candidate that didn’t endear her to the voters who could have made her presidency for her. Whether it was calling them deplorables, broadly dismissing any criticism of her within the party as rooted in misogyny, or accusing them of being unrealistic idealists with pie in the sky goals and unelectable candidates, she really had a knack for taking these people and firmly putting them in the camp of “Screw her, I’m not voting for someone who treats me like that.” rather than engaging in a serious attempt to understand these voters and address their concerns.

                Democrats today have certainly learned that Trump could be a serious threat, not to be dismissed out of hand. To his credit, Biden has notably not fallen into the sort of self-destructive antagonism of the electorate that is not already firmly committed. He might pay only lip service to their concerns, but I’m not aware of him blanket writing off, say, pro-Palestinian protestors en masse as antisemites that were never going to vote for him and are beyond redeem, even if he does frequently trot out manufactured claims of widespread antisemitism.

                People online trying to drum up support for him don’t seem to have gotten the message that this didn’t work out so well for Hillary, and are going at it, calling people who haven’t vocally committed to Biden anything from idiots to Russian shills to Republican trolls, and claiming they hate minorities and LGBTQ+ people or whatever else occurs to them to rile up people. I don’t see that working out to their advantage, and predict it will alienate people who might have potentially been won over.

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              FWIW, we ran Hillary Clinton as a moderate candidate and lost.

              You call that Kissinger/Thatcher mashup monstrosity “moderate?”

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              Hillary was a moderate?

              In 2016 the pre election polls showed a rock paper scissors ordering.

              • Trump beats Hillary

              • Hillary beats Bernie

              • Bernie beats Trump

              The last occurred because Bernie was a different enough candidate to attract a certain subset of Republicans.

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            I just assumed you didn’t think a single voter could influence an election…

            For my vote to matter for president, we need a charismatic progressive, it’s the only thing that can flip my state from red.

            Even if Biden pull it out and wins, there is literally zero chance Biden wins my state.

            That’s just reality.

            You don’t flip red states by being diet republican. Everyone that wants that is already voting R, and they’ll never vote D.

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          So come this November what are you suggesting? I’m so sick of these naive pie-in-the-sky dreaming, or just complain without any solution posts. Come out and say it plainly. Are you saying not to vote for Biden come November?

          You’re literally one of the guys in the meme above.

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      Republicans did that decades ago, and now have trump.

      I might argue that Republicans didn’t do that decades ago, and that’s how they got two Bushes, a McCain, and a Romney. It wasn’t until they abandoned the “electable” moderate Republican and embraced their ideological id that they got to their political messiah.

      The fact that trump has won 50% of his elections and looks to be 2/3 in a few months should make everyone reconsider the quality of candidates we’re running against him.

      I gotta say, I noticed the folks running in the GOP field and they all sucked hard. Trump was the raw meat candidate, but he wasn’t even the most fascist asshole on the ballot. DeSantis was the guy who got off waterboarding people at Gitmo for a living. Hailey couldn’t name a country she didn’t want to bomb. Hutchinson’s fundie base would have him rounding up the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race and marching them to the gas chambers. Only Ramaswamy is the kind of sociopath business conservative more fixated on looting the country than mutilating its residents.

      Trump’s given them license to go full mask-off, but he’s not uniquely bad. He’s emblematic of a party that’s also frothed with bigotry, and just found a PC way of displaying it right up until a black man got into the White House.

      Not getting mad at the people honest about the situation while there’s still time to do literally anything to prevent trump.

      Biden won 2020 by 40,000 votes across three major swing states. He’s losing all three - PA, GA, and AZ - by two to three times that under current polling. The theory that we can just Tinkerbell him back into a second term is simple cope. Biden’s goose was cooked as soon as he fumbled the bag in his first 100 days.

      Blaming 20-something tech savvy voters on Lemmy for hating the man over his genocidal support of Israel won’t shift any of the critical swing-state 40-something blue collar voters angry at him over sun-setting all the COVID era public spending measures.

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        It’s the economy, stupid

        …and for most Americans the economy isn’t that great. Sure we ducked the recession that should have come, but while “line goes up” is great for Wall Street and the economy as a whole, the delayed impact means that improvement does little for the suburban and rural working class voters whose only exposure to the stock market is their 401(k). That’s decades away from paying anything out, while right now they’re feeling the pinch of stagnant wages and corporate driven inflation

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      I’m not sure how it works in the US but join the democratic party and vote for the presidential candidate you want to see. If it doesn’t work out and you don’t like the democratic candidate but said candidate is still better than the Republican, still vote Democrat.

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    I know I have no way of convincing anyone of this, but I am not a Russian bot (living in the UK and not being able to vote in the US election).

    But these are exactly the points of view I have been expressing over here about the Tory and Labour parties. Maybe not so much the “not voting at all” one but the other three? Yeah – that sounds a lot like me right now.

    (I think you should vote for someone you believe in, rather than voting for someone who is not someone else, if that makes sense)

    But definitely not a Russian bot :)

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      I think you should vote for someone you believe in, rather than voting for someone who is not someone else

      This would be the ideal situation, but for so long as we have first-past-the-post it’s a fundamentally ineffective way to vote. Thanks to Duverger’s law, unless one of the two big parties just so happens to coincide with your views then the best you can do is to vote against whichever of the big two you dislike most. “Big two” here depends on your constituency - it may not be Labour and the Conservatives locally, but it is true that virtually every constituency has at most two realistic options. Labour may not be very good, but if they’re in power it’s probably at minimum going to make this a better place for asylum seekers and trans people (or whoever the Tories would go after next), and Labour’s voting record on the environment really is far better than the Conservatives’ too.

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        Your opinion is that it’s the best you can do. I disagree, because that ignores the medium run.

        It might be a good idea, but it’s not definitely “the best” because reality is more complicated. Politics doesn’t happen exactly once on one day.

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          I agree, but I unfortunately think that’s actually the perspective of anyone who chooses not to vote. Politics doesn’t happen once on one day. But if you haven’t done anything in 4 years the most impactful you’ll be is voting for the lesser of two evils once on election day.

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          It’s the best you can with with your vote on voting day. It doesn’t stop you doing anything else on any other day.

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        The UK is having a general election in a little over a month, and we have a similar electoral system and a similarly miserable political landscape. It’s fairly applicable here too.

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          Well the part about “not voting will support the least democratic party” would work, if there is any significant support for those parties (which there is), but the choices are far from being as clear as in the US, especially because they’ve had several presidents who lost the popular vote but still got elected. Meaning that the smaller tje discrepancy, the easier it is for the corrupt electoral college to go against the popular vote.

          Refraining from voting can be used to reform a system, but if people don’t honestly see that voting Biden is the only reasonable action to take against Trump, then we’re frighteningly close to pretty literally repeating history. Hell, even if Trump loses and even if he goes to prison, the US pretty much on track to repeat the exact history of Germany 100 years ago.

          https://time.com/4192760/hitler-munich-excerpt/

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            Did you reply to the comment that you intended to here? I’m not sure I understand why you’ve said what you said. If that’s just me being thick then please clarify for me, I’m lost

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              The point is that not-voting can be a tool for reform, and can be a reasonable choice. CAN be. But it definitely is NOT in the US presidential election, where not voting is pretty much direct support for Trump, one of the most psychotic world leaders in the last decades.

              Without significant cooperation and a very specific situation though, refraining from voting should not be practiced, and currently a vast majority of the people advocating for it are Russian trolls trying to help Putler’s bitch Trump win the election.

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                Right, but I agree with you about that. I’m just saying the meme also applies well to the upcoming UK election.

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                  Insofar that apathy is the greatest tool of oppressor, yes, I would have to agree.

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            Both are first past the post, which is creates a two-party system. There are a lot of other differences, yes, but for the purposes of the post it’s close enough where it counts

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        Your submission in “SSDE” was removed for: Attacking other users is against the rules here, too…

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        Yes, definitely a Russian bot, and not someone who works from home and is active during normal waking hours in Minnesota.

        I don’t advocate anyone getting banned but i think it’s a bit naive to accuse someone who you disagree with as being a foreign agent.

        Go ahead and look through my comments, I’ll happily own up to any comment where I said ‘don’t vote for biden’. I think liberals who obsess over the lesser evil binary 6 months out from an election instead of pushing their candidate to be less shit are themselves just looking for an excuse not to critique their own willingness to accept genocidal complicity.

        Shout out to unruffled for tagging me. Glad to know I’m at least memorable.

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            Jesus bud, take a sec to breathe.

            So… where do you live?

            Minnesota is as specific as i’m willing to be with you, sorry if that’s disappointing. But even if I picked a town like ‘Osseo’ arbitrarily, how’d that satisfy this incessant nagging suspicion of yours more than ‘Minnesota’? That’s why I told you it was ‘unfalsifiable’. So go nuts, pick a standard you’d be willing to accept as satisfactory proof that i’m American. Before you ask me to provide it, though, ask yourself if you’d be willing to provide the same personal details to strangers on the internet - i’m willing to bet there is no proof I could provide you that most people would be willing to offer themselves.

            Weird how you do literally nothing but post “don’t vote biden”, isn’t it?

            Like I said, feel free to find any example of me saying that. The most i’ve said is that I understand not wanting to vote for him over his defense of Israel. Admittedly I got sent by the incessant ‘i’m still voting for him’ apologia i kept seeing in that community, so that’s basically all I did on here for a few days. You should know that your continued reaction over it is scratching something of an itch.

            It’s more likely you just think someone with that negative a view of Biden cannot possibly be real, and if that’s what you need to believe in order to ground yourself back to reality i’m happy to play pretend for you.

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          TBH, I just noticed the typo in your name. If I’d thought for more than 5 seconds about it, I’d have kept it to myself instead of correcting it though. Apologies.

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          For what it’s worth, I ended up getting the boot for calling someone a ‘l!b’, though if I’m being honest I expected it sooner for cooking a little too hard

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      Well as long as you have your pride as the world burns down around you :)

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        It’s already burning, and you’re actively participating in one, if you haven’t noticed. But hey, my teams going to keep it under controI, the people dying are not even white, so it’s cool.

        It’s optimal for US to come out as fascist and remove all doubts, so that rest of the world can move away from appeasing a military complex disguised as a country. The civilized world will deal with it.

        People actually believe that country that actively supports current and harbors past war criminals is the one that’s keeping the world from burning. No, you’re just like Russia and China with good PR.

        But you can’t make any more arguments without moving to hypothetical bullshit, deflection, personal attacks and whataboutism from brainwashing, so I won’t fault you.

        -Signed, Pick your flavor of bots (Russian/Chinese/NK/Iran/Cuba/Aliens) you like and feel better about yourself

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        If you vote for the green party then its less likely to burn down around you :)

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      well that’s because labor did become much more similar to the tories with that cunt blair when thatcher was in office, didn’t it? the difference isn’t as small in the us, however disappointing it might be.

      democrats are center right but not straight up fascist as the republican party is today.

      at the very least they’re trailing behind the population when it comes to social justice. the republicans are completely against anyone except straight cis white males having any rights.

      they talk about trans people a lot but they already started taking women’s rights away. who’s safe? gays? black people? leftists? you can say both parties are disappointing but it’s a joke to say they are “the same.”

      also AOC talking about the election last time had a good argument for Biden despite her differences: forget who you support. but who do you think will be more responsive to arguments and protests? if it’s Biden, you might or might not pressure him to do some things. if it’s the other guy, you know he will not listen.

      the exception seems to be genocide unfortunately, but it won’t be better under the guy who triggered and facilitated all of this while he was in the office in the first place.

      and I’m sorry but you can’t expect the democrats to come to their senses on their own. if you think not voting for them will suddenly make them think they should appeal more to the left, historically you’ve been wrong; the only lesson they learn is that they should appeal more to the right because the right is winning despite being a minority. that’s how their deteriorating minds work.

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      It’s easier for them to call you/anyone a bot than admit any of the viable options have many many issues

      Edit: people here don’t seem to like pointing out this fact

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    Can’t believe it took this long for me to see this meme. Plenty of photos of internet soldiers, but haven’t seen it memes till now.

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    Lol, this is new. Olgino trolls in uniform.

    I can imagine their daily checklist

    1. Paint grass green
    2. Paint dirt black
    3. Write comments about not voting for Navalny
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    If you don’t have preferential voting, the only party worth voting for is the one pledging to introduce it. It would solve this bullshit overnight.

    Instead, people are fighting over which neoliberal to elect; the slightly more progressive one or the significantly more fascist one. Both of them are going to put the profits of wealthy donors ahead of human lives and neither is a true solution to mounting problems.

    Fuck, not only will this not stop the genocide (because Israel doesn’t actually need the weapons in the first place), you won’t even solve the bots and propaganda. Israel has an extremely sophisticated cyberware unit and they’ll just join the Russians trying to get Trump elected.

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    Hey, fellow Russian agents of lemmy, does anybody wanna form a union?

    These working conditions are shit. We have to deal with insufferable liberals repeating the same pro-genocide arguments over and over. Yeah yeah, if we try to strike they could send us all to the front, but tell me honestly - can you really say you fear death after interacting with “vote blue no matter who” people all day?

    Honestly, this whole thing seems like a waste of time. How are we supposed to convince Americans to oppose genocide, especially when the victims aren’t even white? Like, come on, they didn’t have a problem when their government was slaughtering hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, they’re not gonna suddenly turn into moral actors just because we say the right set of words. When in history have these people ever cared how many foreigners die because of their government’s actions?

    In conclusion we deserve a raise if we’re going to keep dealing with these people and if our bosses decide to shut the whole thing down in response, that’s probably for the best because frankly this whole “convince Americans to oppose genocide” thing seems like a complete waste of time.

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    It is naive to believe that the empire was built without the support of its citizens, they know that all wealth they enjoy comes from their and their allies imperialism around the world, so murdering brown people around is just a collateral. and if you bring that up you are either a bot or lack enough intellect to understand the need for western imperialism around the world.

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    This is a cool post.

    Still won’t make me vote for genocide. Please give me a candidate to vote for.

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      And that candidate will lose, republicans will win, and give free reign to Netyanyahoo.

      Good job mate. Important thing is you didn’t let small things like nuance or reality get in the way of riding the high horse.

      Dems have people like Sanders and AOC openly voicing their disgust over Israel’s genocide. Can’t see any GOP member saying that.

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      Not casting your vote for Biden is equal to casting half a vote to Trump, who will ensure there is not question left whether it actually qualifies as genocide or not. It will be horrible. Please vote Biden. Lesser evil means less evil.

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        Dude supports abortion but doesn’t want the state to pay for abortions… So basically low income people are fucked and should give birth to a child they can’t afford to have. He should kill himself.

        libertarians care about liberty until you say that government shouldn’t privatize social services then suddenly they get super authoritarian

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          Dude supports abortion but doesn’t want the state to pay for abortions…

          He’s a libertarian

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        Wow, ending qualified immunity?

        Didn’t think I’d ever see a candidate with that stance!

        Spez: I’ve finished reading all of Chase Oliver’s platform. As a card carrying libleft, this guy’s got my vote. Personal rights, tuition reform, easier adoption, firearms rights, drug decriminalization, streamlined immigration, and against the death penalty? Nearly perfect! Gimme strong support of nuclear and single payer healthcare and my family would be canvasing today.

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          I like a lot of his positions, but the isolationism, especially in regards to Ukraine is a no-go to me

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            That’s a fair point, I don’t like him lumping support for Ukraine in with support for Israel.

            He does go on to state that he seeks peace without rewarding the “aggressing party”. Idk exactly what that means, so he gets a C- from me on foreign policy for the time being.

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          Just write in your own name and you’ll match 100% of what you want and have the same chance at actually being elected.

          Exciting!

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    RuSsIaN bOtS

    Russian bots have maybe an 0.1% effect on the election. You know what has a 90% effect on every single election? Corporate donations.

    Anyway it’s not our job to fall in line for Biden, it’s Biden’s job to appeal to voters, a job which he and his team have seemingly abdicated.

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        They’re a rhetorical device to illustrate a point, not the findings of a scientific survey.

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          Yeah, next time just reply with “check out my domain name”, or “.ml” if you wanna be even more efficient. Most people will understand your point.

          But just to reply to your point so you can’t accuse me of not engaging with your bs or whatever : the russians are investing in propaganda for a “maybe 0.1%”? This And This And everything else just because of “maybe 0.1%”?

          Everyone knows that there’s multiple factors at play here, and even if trump wins this year, it won’t be only because of bots and propaganda. Like you said, the fact that you can accept donations for your campaign is a huge factor in who gets most visibility. And because most voters are uneducated, they’ll just vote for the most visible ones.

          The thing is, most people around here accused of being bots aren’t really bots nor paid by russia. I don’t think anyone actually believes they are. But they’re people on which the propaganda worked.

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      Why bother appealing to voters when blue MAGA will demonize and spread misinformation about anyone who dissents for free, all while “yEs, BuT tRuMp”-ing any and every criticism.

      At this point Biden could shoot a guy on 4th and democrats would screech “sure but you’re not seeing the forest for the trees, TRUMP SAID HE’D DO IT ON FIFTH!”

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      First of all what the fuck does Zionism have to with it. Keep your conspiracy bullshit. Second of all how do you believe you can personally influence whether or not the first past the post voting system may be replaced?

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        Isn’t that crazy. Everyone is allowed to scream about Russian bots in order to defend Genocide without any proof and people upvote it to the top.

        But pointing out that the biggest Biden apologists are notorious Zionists and actively defended israel committing Genocide the past 7 months triggers all the concern trolls asking for conclusive evidence

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      “you’re a Zionist! and you’re a Zionist! And you! You’re a Zionist too!”

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        Thanks for showing up here person that actively defends israel committing Genocide.

        You’d do best deleting your post history before proving my point.