Muricans, don’t fuck this up. We’re so tired of all the political news from your country dominating every single “global” space. Sincerely, the rest of the world.
I said this last time it cropped up, and it’s still true now
https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/48205840/22263227
The truth of the matter, as it’s often the way, it’s there’s nuances
- If you’re in a blue safe seat - vote third, if you’re very lucky they might even win that seat, but the real purpose here is to go “WE DON’T WANT YOU TO SLIDE RIGHTWARDS BLUES, LOOK AT HOW MANY SEATS YOU LOST FROM DOING THAT”
- If you’re in a swing state - vote blue no matter who
- If you’re in a red state - vote blue no matter who
Reminder: While establishment dems are cringe, tankies first and foremost want to see the US and its citizens die, for shits and giggles.
Guys this is the most important election of our lifetimes, you have to keep doing what we’ve always been doing, otherwise things will keep going the way they’ve always been going!
Don’t let the loud 0.1% affect your opinions.
Those trans people and Palestinian children are so selfish! Don’t they realize that .ml users won’t be able to act smug and feel better than everyone else if they vote for a party that they don’t agree with on every single issue? How else will they deal with their insecurities? Palestinian children should be happy to die for true leftist’s need to feel superior.
lmao I got called “Blue MAGA” for encouraging strategic voting just yesterday. I was a card carrying member of DSA before it was cool.
You can tell an election is coming up because all the bots and shills crawl out of the woodwork to start arguments between centrist Democrats and progressive leftists. I’m often disappointed by Status Quo Democrats but I’ll take a status quo that doesn’t work well enough for everyone over a lurch towards fascism that intends to claw back every right we’ve secured since the 1860’s and eagerly steal the territory and resources of middle powers… and do it all fucking incompetently.
On the one hand: Yes, go to the ballot and vote blue. Even if they’re 99% Hitler. If you think you have “nothing to lose”, go look at Syria or Russia. ‘The worst the Republicans could do’ is worse than you can imagine.
On the other hand: Have you ever heard of the ultimatum game? Imagine you and a friend are offered $100, and your friend offers you a split of $X. You can either accept the $X, or reject it and you both get nothing. You might think you should accept the $X no matter how low, but if the scenario happens again and you have rejected low values last time, your friend will be more likely to offer you a fair X. Otherwise, if your friend’s a bastard (and he is), he’ll offer you $1.
Anyway, in 2020 the X offered was a Biden, and in 2024 the X offered was a Kamala. If every Leftist votes for Biden/Kamala/Next, then the DNC will keep offering the same dogshit or even shift right because 1) they want to grab more centrist voters (who won’t vote for a more progressive candidate), and 2) they won’t lose any leftist voters so why not. And then when the right-shifted candidate loses they’ll blame it on “leftists didn’t vote enough” anyway, in spite of the statistics saying otherwise.
So in other words: If you’re willing to vote for a 99% Hitler, don’t be surprised if you’re offered a 99% Hitler. Unless you’re expecting the DNC to be extremely principled, anti-corruption, and spineful?
“Vote blue no matter who” isn’t a solution; it’s forfeiting democracy (if you follow it, you literally don’t get to choose not to vote blue) in pursuit of… not letting Republicans in. Great! The Dems reliably prevented Trump from being re-elected, right? No, he trod water in the status quo but didn’t actually fix the core problems, so Trump’s “vote me in and I’ll burn down the system” still resonated with voters. But hey, at least Biden prosecuted Trump and all the criminals who he enabled to flagrantly break the law and rewrite it to their benefit? Not really, no.
“Vote Blue No Matter Who” is a travesty which can be at best justified as a strategy of lesser evil - but still evil. If it doesn’t have an expiry date then you’ve already abolished democracy, and that’s fucking horrifying, even if it’s the correct strategy.
Y’all got any more of them pixels?
This has been my experience with everyone who refused to vote for Kamala
I mean if it’s that easy to lose…
I still can’t get over the fact that, in my party, the idea that someone might not have voted because of a genocide generates more anger and resentment than the party leaders being openly complicit in a genocide does.
I already give any democrat a free ‘harm reduction’ vote so I’ll be damned if they’re going to guilt trip me for being pro-Palestine and anti-genocide on top of it,
Seriously though people please vote! Yes, the National ballots are nearly worthless. But you still need to vote for your local City/School/County boards! Your local reps are the people making the decision to sign a flock contract, allow zoning for a data center, and many other things that impact your community. Depending on your state local reps may be elected in the June primary and/or the November election. Please look at your sample ballot on your states Secretary of State website or go to vote411 to see who’s on your ballot.
Hey Godric, you stupid fuck, who just came out against trans people specifically, and are running as a D?
Oh yeah This fucking cunt .
Go fuck yourself and your constant attempts at punching left rather than right.
Dems have, and will always be, spineless shitheels who do nothing but shield fascism.
Eat my entire asshole, fuckface.
Blue when in power: But boo hoo we are so powerless we cannot undo any of these anti-trans laws red put in place.
