• Kalkaline @leminal.space
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    5 months ago

    Biden already has those codes. If I look at where we started with Trump and where we ended up, and then where Biden picked up and where we ended up, my choice clearly becomes Biden. Trump went from “grab em by the pussy” to Covid to breaking a bunch of laws to an insurrection. Biden cleaned up Trump’s mess and avoided a complete imminent global financial collapse. All things considered, I’d rather see Biden over Trump and it’s too late to try to swap out Biden.

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      5 months ago

      But have you considered that he didn’t change military policy on Isreal?

      That should be the one and only issue you base your vote on, according to a scary amount of people around here.

      Edit: See? Here they are, saying Trump and Biden are the same. It’s kinda wild to watch.

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        If Biden is okay with murdering Palestinians, what makes you think he’d care about murdering you?

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          5 months ago

          You’re right, better to advocate for him to lose to Trump. He’ll treat me way better.

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              Were you asleep for 4 years or are you truly this disingenuous?

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                I woke up from liberalism in 2016 after the corporate media, which had already lied about the Iraq War and the Vietnam War and plenty of other pretty important things, reassured me that Trump could never win the election. I returned to the USA (big mistake) after living for years in a country with universal health care, and found myself surrounded by liberals who insisted that universal health care is evil and terrible and impossible, though I had used it hundreds of times and thought it was amazing, and was horrified by the possibility that my family would be bankrupted if one of us got into a car accident (for instance). I began to wonder if I was on the right team. I started reading Marxist theory and history, and here I am, asking for someone to explain, using specific policy examples, how the Blue Cheetoh is different from the red one.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    Well the good news is that if Biden wins all the names being tossed around for 28 are in their 40s or 50s at the oldest.

    I’m crossing my fingers for Whitmer personally.

    Bad news is that if Trump wins, they’ll all probably be in prison by then.

    Vote.

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      5 months ago

      If you really believe the Republicans getting control of the nation state is a existential threat, you would want to use every tool possible to prevent that right?

      What if we changed how we vote so maintaining democracy doesn’t fall solely into the democrats lap? So the democrats have backup on the debate stage! So there are more people to call trump out on his bullshit. So we have more chances to stop the Republicans. Wouldn’t you want more chances? Don’t you want to do everything we can to stop the worst from occurring?

      Consider working towards passing electoral reform in your state. Maine and Alaska were able to do it… why not yours?

      Especially in a blue state. What is stopping blue states from passing electoral reform? Cause it ain’t the Republicans…

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        What if we changed how we vote so maintaining democracy doesn’t fall solely into the democrats lap?

        You’ve yet to explain how to do this before November. Still waiting.

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          Yeah this is like “if you don’t like either and you actually want something better, just change how voting works really quick, in a few months.”

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    Doing away with First Past The Post voting in favor of a more representative electoral system (such as but not limited to Ranked Choice voting) will Introduce competition into the electoral process.

    This will increase the quality of candidates across the political spectrum. Yes, this would even help the Republicans pick less insane candidates.

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