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VOTE DEMOCRAT NO MATTER WHO
VOTE IN PERSON; NOT BY MAIL
FAILURE TO DO SO IS SURRENDER TO FASCISM AND THE END OF DEMOCRACY IN THE USA FOREVER
Vote by mail if it is an option. Those machines are rigged, Trump and Musk both admitted this before the last election. Mail in voting is infinitely harder to fuck with as there is a human, being watched by other humans, doing the count check.
As newthrowaway reminded me, hand drop off your mail in ballot.
Hand drop off your mail in ballot.
Yes. Absolutely.
This is the way
Oregon only votes by mail so idk what's going to happen here :(
I mean, I'd love to do that but, unless you're giving me a couple thousand bucks and a farm sitter, I'm not getting to the shithole state I'm from. Apparently I'm a fascist for living on the other side of the world despite voting for the most progressive people on the ballot.
What an annoying little dipshit you are.
To me arguing to vote for the lesser evil party with such slogans sound exactly surrendering to fascism.
Vote for good candidates and good parties and if your vote doesn't work fight and boycott the fascists. That's how you resist fascism
You're not wrong. But one party is actively trying to bring about fascism while the other one is just not resisting it. Why not vote for the lesser party while the DSA party gets momentum?
voting for a party is one way to give them momentum
Here's an example. In WI, the DSA candidate lost the primary to an establishment dem. Now a dem will run against a republican, there is no DSA option anymore.
Why not at least vote dem to stop the party actively trying to bring about facism?
You have other non fascist options available as parties that aren't red and blue.
Oh, so you didn't read my comment or understand the US voting system. Cool. Maybe try to read up about it so you can talk from a place of knowledge next time.
Absolute delusional and moronic take that got us exactly where we are today.
Why don't you take a step back, reevaluate your life choices, and rejoin us in reality where neo-liberals aren't fascists, the fascists are fascists.
If you wanna escape the "lesser of 2 evils" shit, then you and every other young person needs to get off their lazy fucking ass and participate in the Dem primaries. Hong just lost Wisconsin because the younger generation is STILL not showing up in enough numbers to surpass boomers and Gen X.
Until then, stop putting your personal grievances in front of the lives of the millions being massacred by MAGA.
Only option for that is the Dem primaries.
Like it or not, we exist in a 2 party system. A system that, when it comes to the general election, forces us to choose the lesser of 2 evils. Your grievances with that system doesn't make that system disappear. Its still there, like it or not, and your inaction and/or wrong actions have dire consequences.
I've had enough of these chicken-hawk "leftists" who scream for revolution but sure as fuck would never fight in one.
If your ass is refusing to go to the polls to fight fascism, why the fuck should anyone trust you'd pick up a rifle and fight a revolution?
The red and blue party are cycling in power, if there's anything that got us here is not doing enough to challenge this system.
Supporting a genocide perpetrated by a racist far-right government it among other things such as spending a trillion in war and spying people with the most dystopian mass surveillance network humanity has ever seen to me scream fascism. If it's not fascism it's as much as bad and something we should oppose unless we seek to destroy the world.
If you want criminal scum to stop from being elected, encouraging people to vote for them and for their party it's not how you bring up a change. Younger generations are being brainwashed by the government as much as boomers and every other person.
The US government, red and blue administrations cycling in power, has massacred people around the world for decades.
Sound like you "need to get off your lazy fucking ass" and try to change this corrupted system for good.
The US government is supporting a genocide where kids are being murdered daily, what are you doing to make it stop HazardousBanjo?
The ONLY viable way of destroying the two party system is to support the pro-democracy progressive movement within the Democratic party. That means keeping Dems in power. Even if its just enough to keep the fascists at bay to prevent them from destroying democracy entirely.
I.E. the lesser of 2 evils.
So here we are back at vote for Dems, no matter who, or surrender to fascism. That is your only choice.
And which party is spearheading all of it? It ain't the Dems.
Are you seriously pointing to the Dems as the "criminal scum"?
Putting both parties in context, equating them both as criminal scum is like comparing a baby with cancer to a gorilla who can't cum unless he's ripping the head off of babies.
This "both sides" horseshit isn't even just delusional at this point. It is entirely divorced from reality.
Younger people trend progressive. Socialism is the leading ideology of younger people.
The only thing brainwashing young people are dumb fucks telling them they shouldn't vote for the only viable party that isn't fascist, in a system where lack of action favors the fascists.
My dude, open your eyes to the now. Both sides are objectively NOT the same in degree of genocide, crime and suppression of the American working class. It is FUCKING DIVORCED FROM REALITY to make that claim.
And that's not even getting into the fact that, again, between the 2 parties, only 1 has a viable progressive wing.
I actually am. I'm voting for the only viable party that can change the corrupted system and keep the fascists at bay.
Sounds like you're coping over how fucking lame, ineffective and moronic your stance is.
Voting against the fascists who took the Palestinian genocide and rose it a genocide against Hispanic Americans, against LGBTQ+ Americans, against the Lebanese, against the Iranians, against the Cubans, etc.
What are you doing to stop these genocides? I know the answer is "jack shit", but I'll entertain the dumbass question
You do not destroy the two party system by keep supporting it.
To me it sound like you have already surrendered to fascism
both of them
I am, the previous democratic administration supported and fueled a genocide where thousand of innocent kids got murdered. They didn't simply close an eye on it, they actively supported it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_support_for_Israel_in_the_Gaza_war
The reality is that as time goes USA is climbing the chart to become the worst evil empire in history, each decade they start a new war where thousand of innocent people get murdered. Red and blue administrations one after another the war machine never stop but get boosted and replenished to start another conflict.
Hopefully they do but sadly many of them are brainwashed by propaganda, US democratic party is as much as progressive as some right wing parties are in europe.
Dude both red and blue latest administrations literally supported and fueled the genocide providing israel any sort of help. There aren't degrees of genocide, if you support the murder of innocent children you are scum on every degree.
Fascists already rule US. The previous US government knew trump was a pedophile and didn't do shit about it.