Voting for Biden isn't harm reduction. Voting third party is meaningless - the democrats aren't going to be shaking in their boots that Howie Hawkins got 80,000 votes. Gloria La Riva isn't propagandizing for socialism by coming in 5th place in the few states where she's even on the ballot.

Stop voting for democrats down ballot too you dumbasses.

Just take your ballot and light that shit on fire.

  • Luciferase [she/her,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Voting for Howie Hawkins will at least mildly irritate Democrats. It still won’t have a meaningful impact, but I’ll probably vote anyway. Doing so is basically low-effort shitposting.

  • DasKarlBarx [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    There's good candidates that can run at the local level and some localities and states have good propositions on them.

    Punting everything else cus the president choices suck is stupid.

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      Theres maybe a half dozen districts where a socialist is running. You by chance live in a state voting on medicaid expansion? Cool. Vote for it. That's not the situation most people are in though.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    There are ballot measures that are worth voting on. Like ranked choice voting, legalizing marijuana, etc

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    Stop voting for democrats down ballot too you dumbasses.

    Handing all levels of government to proto-fascists to own the libs.

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      So democrats are the only thing preventing a fascist take over? I'm sure they'll do a great job handling that situation...

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        They'll do a shit job, but whatever half-hearted speedbumps they put up are better than just turning over the keys and removing all resistance.

        Libs suck and all, but they wouldn't do shit like banning abortion or gay people if given a blank check.

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          Love to oppose proto-fascism by voting for a guy that will support proto-fascists all over eastern Europe

            • hagensfohawk [none/use name]
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              Mostly, yea.

              But Biden is bringing in all of the neocons and is promising to "reestablish American leadership around the world." Democrats are fully behind increasing pressure on Russia to oppose Putin.

              What is that going to mean on the ground? Western support for anti-Russian/nationalist politicians, which has a heavy overlap with neo-nazi groups like the Azov battalion. And in places like Ukraine, there actually is an armed street element to the proto-fascism. Not in the US where the idea of Trump being a fascist is used by libs to make themselves feel like they are living through consequential history.

              The idea that a vote for Biden is harm reduction is maybe true if you only care about Americans. Trump isn't harm reduction either though. Its basically a wash.