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Trump says he’ll have the ‘honor of taking Cuba’ and can do ‘anything I want with it’
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Maybe it was the fact that Kamala was fake as hell, or maybe that the Democratic canvassers knocked on people's doors (including mine) two dozen times before the election, even though I told them every. single. time. that I was voting for her.
Or hell, maybe it's that she called Gen Z voters dumb after they clenched the 2022 midterms. Or maybe it's the fact that they didn't primary a candidate. They kept saying Biden was going to run again and then tried to use his popularity to force us to vote for her. I'm sorry, but that faded Obama magic doesn't transfer from one candidate to another, especially when Biden was so-so at best with almost no charisma. I was already pissed that we got the rug pull with Bernie for Biden in 2020. To not even get a fucking primary for 2024 has left me beyond bitter.
Still, I voted for her and Fetterman. I will not vote for a candidate I don't believe in again. At this point, I'm writing in a third-party name. If the establishment can't learn, then let them burn. Don't bother with whatever guilt trip of a response you might have. I'm sick of feckless leaders. I will always vote, but I won't hold my nose for the establishment anymore. Fascism is here, and the ratcheting fuckers of the Democratic Party are useless. It's just too bad. Trump is essentially burning the country to the ground, but the flames won't hit the support beams until they can blame the Democrats, and, like always, it will work. Politics piss me off so much.
Yeah, my only advice is stay close to your family, friends, and community if you can. It’s pretty clear to me that Democratic Party officials have no real interest in fighting fascism so it really doesn’t make sense to put any hope in them. Luckily you don’t really have to.
Fascists by their own inflexible nature will eventually force people to fight back in meaningful ways. Any kind of bonds you create with other people can become the basis upon which organized resistance thrives, whatever that may look like. Even though it’s not really organizing, sometimes I think acts as simple as baking cookies for your neighbors does more to prepare for the fight against fascism than voting for a Democrat does. lol
You could have fought facism by voting, like normal people do.
I’m not telling anyone not to vote but why do you think voting will stop fascists now? It never has in the past. Normal people had to fight and die to stop it.
Maybe if democrats treated fascism with the seriousness it deserves we would be okay. However, instead of jailing Trump and dismantling his movement, Biden decided to give unlimited support to a fascist government committing a genocide.
I hope you realize how disingenuous democrats are when they tell you to vote against Trump in 2028 as if the election hasn't been rigged by that point.
You really can't fight fash by voting for fash-lite which is what was offered in 2024.