Kanye is running too why the fuck wouldn't you vote for him?

  • OhWell [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    An overrated rapper and egomaniac. I'll pass.

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

    If we can be serious a moment. A vote for Kanye shows almost nothing. Most strategists would read it as a politically illiterate person's choice based on celebrity status.

    Either don't bother to vote (acceptable). Or ideally vote Gloria La Riva because as a socialist your goal should be to elevate socialist voices. The more votes she gets the more attention her ideas get and if we can reach a certain threshold maybe even get her and PSL's ideas into the spotlight which is what Lenin suggests socialists need to do. If Gloria La Riva is not on your ballot and you want to show the Democrats you're angry I guess you could vote Green but understand they're also a bourgeois liberal party and getting them to say 5% nationally would not result in platforming of a communist party and the spreading of its platform.

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

    I want to give La Riva a bigger platform and I don't want to give a religious nut job grifter a bigger platform

  • TossedAccount [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Like you I know my vote isn't going to matter w.r.t. the actual outcome, but I would rather add to the popular vote count of a candidate who's actually putting forward a good version of the Green New Deal, one which openly states that it'll be paid for by slashing the military budget and closing tax loopholes for the rich. https://howiehawkins.us/the-ecosocialist-green-new-deal-budget/

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

      the green new deal is a horrible idea

      imagine that kind of project carried out by the CURRENT GOVERNMENT

      • TossedAccount [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The current government would also never slash the military budget by 75% without constant bottom-up pressure from an organized mass movement. This program is technically feasible under the existing government but is formulated to highlight the limitations of bourgeois electoral politics and compel people sympathetic to the banner for an ecosocialist GND to start drawing revolutionary conclusions, and to recognize the necessity of grassroots working-class organizing both within and beyond electoral campaigns.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    If Kanye wanted to be elected in 2020 he would have released Graduation in 2020.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    i want la riva and hawkins to be my mom and dad :( why do they have to fight

  • kitchenparty [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    fuck you kanye or busters a vote for kanye is a vote for greens stop stealing votes from gloria