I’m getting fucking sick of this orange fuck lying and causing the United States to fall behind. END THE TARIFFS. If you don’t vote you’re a part of the problem.
Already did; Fuck Trump. Fuck Republicans.
HEAR, HEAR
Voted my mail in ballot and already dropped it off. Dem all the way down. Fuck the republicans.
And don’t try telling me Dems are just as bad somehow or that this is just voting for the lesser evil.
Fuck anyone if you think that. If you do, you’re part of the reason we’re in this shitshow right now.
Dems arent “good”, Democratic socialists are actually keeping their promises, so vote for them if you have one in your area. But if you can’t tell that the democratic party is a million times the lesser evil then FUCK YOU. I’m in Utah so this Is literally the first time I’ve even had a shot at getting a lefty elected and I’m STOKED, even though it will probably be the most moderate dem imaginable
Fuck the current administration
Fuck all republicans, and those who didn’t vote, who wanted this (or allowed this) to happen in the first place.
Is there anything this Australian can do because this shit is affecting everyone.
YES. When you see obvious right-wing talking points parroted in comments that are clearly intended to discourage and/or create fear in American voters who may be reading – I’ve seen numerous low-key “it’s not really safe to vote” thrown in now – do two, maybe three things.
One, check the account age, and the time of the comment compared to your time zone. Not every bogus comment comes out of Eastern Europe, but a number of them do, they start and stop commenting at odd hours, and it’s something that you’ll note as you look deeper into suspect comments.
Two, point them out. Take the time to throw out a sentence or two that stops the next reader. You can look at my account history if you’d like to see how I do it. I often write long ones if I’m in the mood, but short ones are even more effective. All you need is a simple “Two day old doomer account. Blocked.” It gets the message across.
Three, if you don’t feel like arguing with bullshit artists who come back with lies pulled out of their ass in the fraction of the time and real effort it takes you to craft a simple truth, then block. If you really piss them off they’ll come back with alts, and of course prepare to be downvoted, but usually it shuts them up.
For as many of us voting Americans who deeply care about our country and are still brave enough to be online right now, you will be doing us all a service, as well as pointing out the form for those whose country the firehose of oligarch propaganda gets aimed at next.
I find it worrying that there are approximately 200x more people telling others to vote, than there are people telling others to take any other action on top of voting.
All while it’s publicly known that the election is being actively rigged, and would change close to nothing even if it wasn’t.
So yeah. If you feel safe doing so, absolutely go vote. But also please consider doing literally anything else aside from that. Even the smallest, slightest protests help.
Organized uprisings removed at least a few dozen totalitarian regimes. So far, voting has removed a grand total of 0. Call me a pessimist, but I’m betting it’ll stay at 0 for the foreseeable eternity.
So far, voting has removed a grand total of 0. Call me a pessimist, but I’m betting it’ll stay at 0 for the foreseeable eternity.
I’ll settle for calling you a willing liar. Contrary to all expectation, bloodless VOTING just kicked the very entrenched and very supported Viktor Orban out of Hungary this year. Do you need sources for that assertion, or no?
And stop suggesting it’s not physically safe to vote. Most of us have early voting, voting by mail and/or drop box despite efforts to make those unavailable, and troublemakers physically cannot spread out that far and that thin across every local site every day of the next four weeks. If they try, it will be on Election Day: they simply do not have the resources to mount more of an armed offense.
In addition, it is illegal by federal law as well as many states law to police within a certain radius of polling sites, meaning that even if the feds try it via ICE, states can shut that shit down themselves, and likely will because all those phone calls and emails to our reps that people like you say are useless are actually NOT: our leaders are feeling the heat, and they’re gonna feel it more. The rest of us are preparing: that shit will not succeed.
So you can just stop with the low key discouragement and fearmongering, right-wing talking point bullshit. It’s absolute crap on every level, and you obviously don’t live here and have never voted in the US or you’d know how it works and more importantly, which way the wind is blowing on the streets. Even South Carolina is in the mix to flip a Senate seat now, and I can’t think of a harder red state. You’re flatly wrong on all counts.
TL;DR: Anyone who wants these losers out of office, ignore this fearmongering doomerist shit from people who don’t even live here. It’s safe to vote – and too unsafe NOT to vote.
I read that quote and immediately thought of Orban. The “both sides are the same, voting doesn’t matter” types are clueless, incurious people.
If your only issue with the United States is that it is bullying other nations economically, you are so painfully privileged and ignorant.
Seriously, of all the things you could have chosen to make such a grand announcement to vooooote, I really cannot believe you chose tariffs. It is just so unbelievably crass and on the nose for a liberal.
If it affects you, it’s important, right? But if it affects (or slaughters) the rest of the world, it isn’t a big deal. American trash.
I’m so excited the USA is falling behind. It’s just making the world a better place. Vote for whomever keeps the fuckery going!!
😂😂😂🤪😂😂😂
You must come from a very privileged background to hold such an accelerationist mindset.
Single mother, welfare. Try again magat.
Nah, a real mother would care about the world her kids grow up in.
Yeah this person is either a lying piece of shit or an awful parent.
I agree with your sentiment, but it wont stop the US from falling behind. The damage has been done, the US is not trustworthy anymore, and this will not change just because Trump becomes a lame duck.
We, the other countries in this world, cannot put our trust in another country that might change allegiance every few years. Trump is not a cause, he is a symptom of a deeply rotten, racist and bigoted system that we (we as in the international community) cannot accept as a risk. And we do not expect that you actually fix anything if Trump is gone - the issue with your country is that even when you stated that state and religion are to be separated, you instead installed a civic religion which is just as bad as any other religion on earth, and just as resistant to change as any other fundamentalist cult. The US are a fundamentalist terrorstate, and the current expression of this state might change in the blink of an eye.
We won’t engage with that crap if we all can help it.
Edit: i have hit some USians deep in the balls. Fine by me. It is to be expected. American Exceptionalism does not cope well with the Reality that they are the bad guys, and they have been for a long time. Putting up a mirror to their fucked up Nazi-like internal organization based on an racist ideology that they kept conserved after slavery was outlawed is an important thing.
