• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Been saying it for weeks. Nobody with half a brain would fall for that shit.

    A vote against Harris is a vote against protecting America. That may not be true next election(fuck, I hope it’s not), but right here…right now…it’s true.

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      15 days ago

      It will absolutely true next election. Democrats will keep undermining progressives and running weak and ineffective candidates until the dice fall badly and the fascists win. That’s how these cycles always go.

      Every election will be more dangerous than the one before until elections stop. The next Trump will be far more capable than the rapist toddler we’re dealing with now.

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        15 days ago

        yeah, we all know that. “the next trump” has been waiting in the wings since that guy got stabbed in ancient Rome. democracy requires all of us to complain and demonstrate.

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      15 days ago

      Nobody with half a brain would fall for that

      it’s a lot of good people on the far left side of twitter

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        15 days ago

        Where we need to take America doesn’t need extremists, of any kind.

        I don’t have a problem when Americans dislike abortions. I do have a problem when they try to take the option away from Americans.

        I don’t have a problem with people protesting civil rights violations. I do have a problem with Americans rioting and killing each other.

        Extremism of any kind is toxic and has no place in a stable future. That’s because all extremism is born out of a strong emotional desire or need from the people.

        IMO the only way out of this is to stomp out the conservative extremist fires and roll back the damage they’ve done. Only this will appease the extreme left enough for them to walk back from the line.

        Progress forward is a balancing act that requires a soft touch. Unfortunately we had four years of a crude daft orange ogre that destroyed that balance.

        As long as we make it through the next two months, we should be fine. Extremists can’t do anything against a mind they can’t manipulate. Just don’t fall for the emotional trap.

        Stay calm, stay vigilant, stay in control.

          • hatedbad@lemmy.sdf.org
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            15 days ago

            “America in 2016 was perfect until orange man ruined it, we simply need to return to 2016 and everything will be ok”

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              American politics in 2016 wasn’t perfect, that’s why it’s been called the “Great American Experiment”.

              But the world was a whole lot quieter in 2015. Wasn’t it?

              Americans got along a lot better than they do today in 2015. Didn’t they?

              My point was that we need to go back to that if we have any hope of moving forward.

              Unfortunately, the Russian and Chinese governments have been trying to drive a wedge between the American public, and they’re succeeding. Their actions have fractured American conservative parties into useless, “do-nothings”. Now they’re trying to do the same thing to the left. Until now they’ve been unsuccessful.

              The United States of America has peered into the abyss before, similar to how we are now. I’ll quote something that someone very wise said at that time that still rings true today.

              A house divided against itself, cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.

              As we stand upon the precipice, with baited breath, I hope for a future that my children can inherit.

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            15 days ago

            This was reported, I’m not sure its rule breaking, but its weirdly aggressive.

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      14 days ago

      I’m pretty sure this has been the scare tactic for the last 8 presidential elections of my lifetime

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      15 days ago

      You don’t need much of a brain to understand that voting and supporting criminals with blood on their hands is bad. You also don’t need to be too smart to understand that your choice isn’t limited to vote between two colors.

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        You also don’t need to be too smart to understand that your choice isn’t limited to vote between two colors.

        I mean… you said it.

        But I agree, only idiots believe that third parties are viable in our broken electoral saystem

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          The system is so broken that only an idiot could believe in it. Third parties are the lesser evil choice.