As shitty as it is, this country 1. Isn't designed in such a way that would allow a third-party candidate a genuine chance of winning and 2. Has too many centrists that will vote for Biden regardless. Trump has repeatedly garnered heavy support in Republican polls, so they're pretty much almost all in on him. Splitting the blue vote between Biden and whoever else will only lead to a Trump victory after which we might not even be ABLE to vote in 2028.

I'm legitimately having a panic attack. These airheaded anarcho-kiddies are genuinely going to land us all in camps.

biden's doing literally nothing to stop states from criminalizing lgbt people's existence emilie-pain

their fears about a trump presidency are valid but i wish these libs would stop putting their hopes in the DNC when its clear they have zero interest in running a candidate that isn't complete dogshit

  • lapis [fae/faer, comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    I'm seeing a lot of "we just have to do this for this election, guys! then we can vote against the genocidal democrat!" in there, and like... are people legitimately not aware that Trump will absolutely run in every presidential election until he's elected or dies?

    they're literally holding the carrot of "Trump magically won't run after this election, guys!" in front of their own noses, and it's disgusting.

    at least if Trump wins this election, and doesn't move insanely fast to dismantle constitutional government structure (which sure doesn't seem like a mere four-year task to me), he'll have hit his term limit and we won't have to worry about him anymore. I'm sure the republicans will run somebody equally evil after Trump hits his term limit, but like, come on, libs, use your fucking brains.

    • Egon [they/them]
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      3 months ago

      Yeah and before trump it was "binders full of women" Romney and before that it was "insane and old" McCain and before that it was Dubya and before... It's been "we just this one election" for some decades now

      • BobDole [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?

        • Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

        Over fifty years

        • Egon [they/them]
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          3 months ago

          Fifty years is also some decades nerd

          (Love that quote and thank you for sharing it)

      • JayTwo [any]
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        3 months ago

        Bro just one more election bro.
        Bro I swear just one more act of lesser evilism and it'll fix the entire political landscape bro.

      • DyingOfDeBordom [none/use name]
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        3 months ago

        T> Democrats will elevate the next crazy Republican

        It continues to blow my mind that to this day we have incontrovertible evidence that Hillary Clinton's campaign worked to boost Trump, directlyt helping him win, and none of these "the anarcho kiddies will land us in camps" liberals even give a shit

          • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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            3 months ago

            Media just had to rename and reframe pied piper and the whole podesta email fiasco as "Russian hacks" and i guess that's a magic button in people's minds to just... not investigate the content of those emails.

            maybe-later-honey "Investigating or reading the emails would be falling for Russian propaganda!" maybe-later-kiddo

        • NewLeaf
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          3 months ago

          You get down oted like crazy elsewhere for even bringing it up. I am currently in a conversation where I brought it up. Can't wait to see what their rebuttal is

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Heard that shit for 2 decades at this point. As soon as the dem wins the lectures and excuses come out.