I've been debating to myself whether or not voting for a third party candidate (Either PSL's de la Cruz or Green's West, regardless of my criticisms for both) would be the most "effective" use of my time in election season this year. The argument for "not" is that maybe voting at all is bad because it legitimizes this system, even if a third party candidate getting a record turnout would grab more attention (and piss off Blue MAGA cultists) than simply not going since it's not like abysmal turnouts, even by this country's historical standards, are newsworthy at this point. So I guess I have to ask how you people rationalize voting or not this year?
I fully understand that this is more symbolic than anything else and won't materially affect change for a while but it's still something to think about.
Biden is in no way protecting our trans comrades. Ohio just passed a reactionary transphobic law, overriding a veto to ensure it would be the most anti-trans version possible (the governor vetoed the original bill to "protect sports") .. Biden is president now, wtf is he doing to stop that? He might fundraise off of it, or say he will do something if he wins, but he won't... He did the exact same thing with abortion and roe v wade. Congress isn't passing any laws on that anytime soon either
And what party controls ohio?
And what party controls the state governments that are not passing those laws?
Acting like minorities are equally attacked by both parties is disingenuous and makes communists look like idiots who don’t know what they are talking about.
Biden has deported more people than Trump and gave police departments all over the country far more funding, objectively he has harmed minorities more than Trump did, which is an astounding metric that has to be shared more often