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• FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m asking a legitimate question here.

  We can look back at the last 40 years, but the last 20 in particular, when Democrats were handed a mandate not once bet twice.

  And they’ve used that power to make us poorer, not wealthier.

  So how exactly are you not throwing your vote away voting Harris or Trump, given that we can look at recent history and infer exactly what they’re going to do once elected?

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  • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    OK, I’ll bite.

    Trump will be worse for marginalized people, trans folks in particular. Harris has a history of supporting LGBTQIA+ rights.

    Trump will be worse for Palestine (and has said as much). Harris has at least entertained a cease fire.

    Trump, despite the lies that he utters, will make every move to implement Project 2025, which will destroy any semblance of democracy. Harris won’t do that.

    I am so sick of the bosthsideism bullshit. Just because they are both bad, does not mean one isn’t dramatically worse. This election is going to be close, and as shitty as it is, the US is a 2 party system. Third parties do not have a chance with the current electoral system.

    If you want that to change, you have start local and work up the chain. Not voting or voting third party is pointless until there is a change in system, and that starts locally.

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    • FlashMobOfOne@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If you want that to change, you have start local

      You’re partly right.

      The only power we have now is local, unless you’re a billionaire or willing to commit a terrorist act, both of which do not apply to me. You can always do good with your own two hands, but we can look at the last two decades and conclude correctly and definitively that voting for either major party is throwing your vote away, at least if you’re a wage earner.

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      • Vodulas@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If you don’t think those things will get substantially worse, and substantially faster under Trump, the you have played yourself

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