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Not deactivating, but I am done with responding here. You can find me where the skies aren't so gloomy and full of abhorrent misogynists and Russian bots.
@arvalis ia can't wait for him to literally gut NASA, right? They've already rooted out the people who work there who are anti-Trump via. freedom of information requests, and I'm sure they'll all find themselves conveniently let go within a week of 1/6 "Head of Government Efficiency"
@AaAh_lm @heartsalty I mean I'm just asking for the answers to those questions here. If you're confident enough to vote for Stein, then surely she's answered those questions to earn that vote herself. And if she has for you, that's fine, but for others her promises are demonstrably empty.
@SheevTalks Considering almost a million people died in part thanks to Trump's Covid apathy, and the other guy is mad that an XX clone can be made from someone with XY chromosomes IN A VIDEO GAME. Did she overreact...or did Babybrains play the internet when he was losing relevancy?
And then almost all the women are at the top and I have to assume it's because people think leftists are airheads, but Bella Swan? REALLY? That bitch is 100% on Tik Tok larping her trad life right now. I'm not sold on Monica either tbh. She's thinking about her inheritance.
The Joker. The Joker is going to vote for Trump. Like you bet he is standing in line to do his civic duty (I mean he's disenfranchised sure), but he either has a firm stance on protecting civil rights or he's writing "Batman xoxoxo" on his ballot, right?
@AaAh_lm @heartsalty Also it is not bad faith. I've asked about the genocide in Ukraine repeatedly because people tell me that genocide is their red line. So either some genocide is their red line, or all of it is. There are also DefundAllWars hashtaggers in my mentions voting Green.
@AaAh_lm @heartsalty And what will that do for Palestinians, whom Trump wants to flatten, or Ukrainians, whom Trump wants to stop supporting? If you are voting on a principle of stopping genocide, as SO MANY of these people tell me they are, then how does this accomplish harm reduction?
@alfie_t8 His 'right to free speech'? What a dumb little twat. We don't have that in the UK, and maybe he'd know that if he got off the internet for 5 minutes.
Don't you know? You're not allowed to say this because how can you PROVE those votes would go to Gore instead of Nader? And also you're KKK and Blue Maga and want to throw a party for genocide (sarcasm)
I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein.
When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who was paying peripheral attention.
I've regretted that vote for my entire adult life.
Ultimately, George Bush won by a margin of 500+ votes in the state of Florida over Gore. And that was the ballgame. Ralph Nader peeled 97,000+ votes away from Gore. If only 600 of those 90,000 had voted for the major party candidate that more aligned with their values, things would have been very different.
When I was in my senior year of college, 9/11 happened. The country and western world rallied around Bush's resolute response to the traumatizing terror attacks. I was in NY at the time, and it was a terrifying moment for the nation.
But the consequences of Bush being in office at that moment were immense.
Bush's disdain for his dad's nemesis, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, led him to invent a rationale to invade a country that literally had nothing to do with 9/11. End result? He killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people, thousands of American troops, and spent over a trillion dollars of taxpayer money in the process.
Beyond the completely immoral and indefensible Iraq War, Bush was a complete disaster as a president. His "No Child Left Behind" effort turned public schools into standardized testing centers. He tripled down on fossil fuels and ignored climate change. His tax cuts for the rich helped contribute to the 2008 economic downturn that led to the Great Recession.
He was a terrible president.
In an alternate reality, Al Gore would have been president in 2001 when terrorists attacked America. Would he have gone into Iraq? Absolutely not. Would he have ignored global warming? 100% no! Gore was perhaps the preeminent proponent of fighting climate change at that time. Would he have passed massive tax cuts for the wealthy? No way.
This is a sliding doors scenario. What would have happened? We can't be sure. But one thing is for sure: those votes for Ralph Nader (in Florida in particular) were EXCEPTIONALLY consequential for the lives of millions around the world. Gore would have offered a more forward-facing, environmentally conscious & peaceful presidency that wasn't so rooted in grievance and privilege.
My point is:
Either Kamala Harris or Donald Trump will win the election. That is a fact. You might feel the need to submit a "protest vote" as I did in 2000.
Just be ready to wear it when Donald Trump wins, strips away reproductive rights from all Americans, implements an economy-destroying tariff, dismantles the entire federal government, eliminates the Department of Education, prosecutes his perceived enemies, and devolves America into chaos.
There are no perfect choices. But rest assured, there are only two.
Trust me - I've been wearing my vote for a quarter century.
I don't think that as a Ukrainian I need to prove online fascists that Russians indeed commit countless war crimes in Ukraine. One of the best documented wars in history and every tweet about "Russia does war crimes" attracts many replies with "no proofs"
Even his own dumbass followers can't get a policy response out of him. The man's a showman. He makes jokes and relies on other people to run the country based on whatever random garbage he's spewed out this time.
Trump: βMaybe weβll pay off the $35 trillion US debt in Crypto. Iβll write on a little piece of paper, β$35T crypto we have no debt.β Thatβs what I like.β
How can anyone vote for this absolute moron?
@sunrainsunrain@_celia_bedelia_ Why did I get the reply to this one after the other one lol? I've discussed the Democratic party shifting further to the right elsewhere in the replies just let me know when you've read them all I guess.
Make sure to Google Stein+Putin while you're at it.