• bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 months ago

    It is less than five months to the election. Please provide us with an alternative. Happy to hear you out. If you don’t have one then cool, no harm no foul and I’ll be voting Biden in November.

    Floor’s yours dude.

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      6 months ago

      Hear me out…

      1. Invent time machine

      2. ?

      3. The candidate I want most gets elected.

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      6 months ago

      And 5 month ago it was double that time and people already screamed that pointing out that an alternative to two genocidal geriatrics is needed were screamed down as being Trump puppets.

      We already wasted half of that time to find a solution with people being vigorously opposed to demanding a solution as they are afraid to lose the status quo.

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        6 months ago

        Cmon dude, we can read your history.

        People are not calling you a Trump puppet because you criticise Biden. People are arguing with you because you think not voting is a solution that Democrats are actually affected by.

        By not voting, you just ensure the person you want the least to be in office wins (Trump). There’s plenty of shills trying to discourage people from voting with that rhetoric. Republicans only win when dems don’t show up.

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          6 months ago

          I am not saying not to vote. I am saying not to vote Dems if the Dems dont stop the genocide. So vote third party or better yet pressure the Dems now to stop the genocide, so they can be voted for.

          The last one is the best option. But it only works if they understand that you are serious about it and will not vote for them no matter what.

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        6 months ago

        The political cycle is not 10 months long. Or 24. Or 48.

        If you want change, you need to be involved in pushing over a large number of heavy objects over a long period of time. No one candidate, no one election, is going to change anything.

        Because your damn country isn’t “descending into fascism”, it’s been bathing in it for centuries, and every time there’s someone trying to lift y’all kicking and screaming out of it just a little bit, the totalitarians crop up to try and self-destruct it all. Then, suddenly, a bunch of you come out of the woodwork to declare that it’s better to blow it all up, actually, than to do literally anything to stop it, because you believe there should be a quick and easy solution, and everyone else around you is just an idiot for not seeing it.

        But you only believe that because you’re some kind of self-important, hubris-huffing sucker.

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          6 months ago

          Declare to the Dems “I’ll only vote you, if you stop genocide, internment camps and start taxing the rich properly.” Then follow through with it. Already saying you dont want to follow through with it is telling them, that they dont need to listen to you. This is the only language they understand. Ideally look into organizing for a third party, so the Dems can be overtaken by a better third party which can take their place in the political system. The DNC has proven time and time again that they will be authoritarian and undemocratic to ensure no actually progressive candidate to make it into their leadership.

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            6 months ago

            I hate Biden, and I do think that voting isn’t going to solve our problems, but do you really think that NOT voting is going to solve our problems? Democrats know that they’re always going to me more left than the Republicans, which will be enough for most people, and that very few people are going to try holding out for leftward change that could’ve been voted in during the primaries but wasn’t.

            What we need to do is vote for Biden to prevent Trump from destroying the country in 2 weeks flat, then actually force change. Voting works great when the system works, but it’s been broken for a while - we need real action now, up to and including a revolution if need be.

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                6 months ago

                All uprising means innocents killed. There were many innocents killed in the American revolution and every other revolution, yet most are celebrated, because we all understand that revolutions only happen because far too many innocents are already being killed, and at least this solution stops that eventually. Revolution as a whole is meant to be a horrifying last resort for people who are left no other choice.