• protist@mander.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Talking shit about Biden and telling everyone to vote for a third party instead is not “criticizing Dems to be better,” it’s literally how you would put Trump back in the White House

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      I’m not seeing anyone in this thread telling anyone to vote third party.

      When it comes down to voting for Biden or whatever racist shitbag the GOP trots out, I’m going to vote for Biden. But don’t tell me I’m not allowed to criticize him or the party. Acting like a political party is above criticism comes off as fascist.

      And before you get on to me about only criticizing Democrats, I think we can all agree that Republicans are worse, but if we aren’t allowed to call out Dems on shit, then we truly don’t have a democracy anymore.

      I get the impulse that talking shit about a political candidate is turning people off of voting or voting for the realistic candidate, but I would argue that doing shit like keeping old politicians in office does a lot more to turn people off of voting. If we want people to vote, then they need to be inspired by a candidate and feel good about voting. And of course they don’t feel inspired when they hear criticisms about both parties, but clearly just telling people that they have to vote for someone to keep someone like Trump from office only seems to work for reelection, but it didn’t stop him from getting in office in the first place. I’m pretty confident that Trump won’t be president again, I’m not so confident about the next guy like him.

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        I’m not confident he won’t win against the crappy candidates dnc keeps trotting out, andi doubt I’ll vote either party, but thank you for voicing the rest of my thoughts about it so well.

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        I took a brief look at the post history of the person I was responding to, that is what my comment was based on. Never anywhere did I suggest you shouldn’t criticize Democrats, of course all our elected leaders should be scrutinized.

        And of course Feinstein should have retired years ago, just like Ginsburg should’ve retired while Obama was president.

        What I was arguing against is that guy"s “Biden is all bad, vote Green party” perspective, which only helps elect a Republican

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        1 year ago

        Yes, so you’re ok with Trump being president over a Democrat, which is why people are saying that to you

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          Biden better start earning the votes then. Don’t blame the voters, blame the politician that’s running.

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            I certainly will blame the dumbass votes that gave 2016 to Trump because they couldn’t stomach voting for Hilary.

            Independent voters were 5% in a lot of states. Low turnout.

            It’s a functionally two party system. Pick the less bad side, or stfu

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              As always, Dems blame everyone and everything but themselves. Hillary didn’t even visit very important states she needed. SMH

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                Hillary did fuck up, as did the people who refused to vote for her. It’s not an either or situation. Plenty of blame to go around.

                Trump and the GOP are irredeemable trash, and the only thing wrong about Hillary calling them deplorables, is that it’s way more than half. Biden and the Democrats currently single out MAGA Republicans as being terrible fascists, but at this point, all Republicans are terrible fascists. Even the Republicans that pushed back on Trump and got kicked out of the party are terrible. The main reason the Democrats don’t say Republicans are all bad is that they still need conservatives who dislike Trump. If left wing voters become a large enough and reliable force in the party, there’s less need to rely on conservatives to maintain a majority.

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            blame the politician that’s running.

            I will, I blame the dipshit breaking all the laws trying to get back into a seat of power. His name is Trump lol. I’m sorry if you are confused.