• Pluto [he/him, he/him]
    hexbear
    9
    edit-2
    2 months ago

    You need to get out and protest and do mutual aid and block roads and stop arms shipments.

    Vote for your local politician and state politicians, but otherwise, vote third-party, if you're going to vote at all (which I may not, but I may vote Claudia).

    • Inui [comrade/them]@lemmy.ml
      hexbear
      16
      2 months ago

      I like the idea of voting third party over not voting or voting uncommitted to make it explicit what I do support and that it is not those in the establishment parties. Its a small difference, but I think "thousands voted for the socialist candidate" is scarier to them than "thousands didn't vote".

      • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
        hexbear
        7
        2 months ago

        Exactly.

        People fought and died for the right to vote. And it has improved lives on the local and municipal and state level. Like, I admit, I vote Democrat on the local level at times. One sneakily, at one point, invoked Stalin (from something he said in a speech of his own) and one is the first trans woman in office in the entire state and quite radical too (under Glenn Youngkin's governorship too and Glenn Youngkin is worse than Trump). And Lee Carter's my man; I'd vote for him.

        But, of course, while I have thought about it, at the rate we're going, I'm not voting for Biden.

        I'm Turkish, you know? Just kinda... difficult for me, after all that has happened.