https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-the-next-presidential-election-is-the-most-important-since-the-civil-war-if-donald-trump-is-elected

  • betelgeuse [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I know you all joke but if Trump is elected it will be a disaster. He will continue to support the genocide of Palestinians but he will say different things about it. Well, he won't say completely different things. Just the wording of the same things really. He won't say for Israel to be careful about committing war crimes while still supporting them. He'll still support them but he'll also say they should be doing the same genocide that they're doing now. And then what will we lose as a nation? We will lose our way.

    Also Trump is too inept to build the border wall. Biden must be allowed to continue building Trump's wall, not because of racism, but because terrorists and crime is hurting our national security.

  • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    data-laughing

    they can scrub the date off and re-use this every election until we all die in nuclear hellfire

  • Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Vote for

    Genocide Joe

    or

    "America isn't nearly fascist enough" Trump

    What a fucking joke.

    Vote for the guy laughing as he shoots babies or the guy with a tear running down his cheek- but either way you better condemn those babies!

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]
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      1 year ago

      He's not shedding a tear because he's being forced to shoot a baby, he's shedding a tear because he was promised he would be shooting a Russian baby

  • MaxOS [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    It’s between two idiots pushing 80 competing for their second term. It’s kind of the least important election of our lifetime in a way.

  • Magician [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    If one election cycle can ruin the US, maybe the US is already ruined. Or you know, it was never good in the first place.

    Man I hate these articles so damn much. If it's so important to not have Trump elected, then the DNC should do things for voters. Give them a reason to show up.

    If the end of the world is going to happen under Trump, prove you're desperate. If Biden cancels all student debt right now, that alone would convince me and a lot of other people to reelect him just to see if he'd do something else that would help people.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Sure is funny how every election is the most important election of our lives but nothing ever changes

  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    This is the most crucial election in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent election in American history.

    —liberal cushbomb

  • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Can't believe the media lib class has decided if the dems lose even one election that's the end of bourgeois democracy, good luck I guess!

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Its the greatest, freest, best, most exceptional country on earth. But its always literally one election away from a complete and total dictatorship. Thats why its so important to vote every 4 years and do absolutely nothing else to improve society somewhat because that's not possible. America is already great sweatie

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      if the dems lose even one election that's the end of bourgeois democracy

      sicko-wistful

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    “I think most importantly, the sole emphasis that he places on having loyal lickspittle toadies around him, rather than people like General Mattis—that would be the true catastrophe,” he says.

    Like who exactly is in the Biden administration, or even the DNC that is straying from the agenda?

    • BurgerPunk [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      rather than people like General Mattis

      Why would you want him around? Can't remember which of the handsome generals he was, but i assume he was a religious freak fascist and i doubt that guess can make me wrong by much

      Did he say "no" to Trump once and become part of the #resistence?

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        1 year ago

        i assume he was a religious freak fascist

        Nah that's more Jerry G. Boykin's thing. I'd call Mattis a living embodiment of the cold competent murder machine aspect of the American military-industrial complex.

        He's basically what you get if you take a man who's willing and grind him down into a nub purely dedicated to min-maxing waging a war against anything.

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    ‘If Nixon wins again, we’re in real trouble.’ He picked up his drink, then saw it was empty and put it down again. ‘That’s the real issue this time,’ he said. ‘Beating Nixon. It’s hard to even guess how much damage those bastards will do if they get in for another four years.

    I nodded. The argument was familiar. I had even made it myself, here and there, but I was beginning to sense something very depressing about it.

    How many more of these goddamn elections are we going to have to write off as lame but ‘regrettably necessary’ holding actions? And 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?

    I have been through three presidential elections, now, but it has been twelve years since I could look at a ballot and see a name I wanted to vote for. In 1964, I refused to vote at all, and in ’68 I spent half a morning in the county courthouse getting an absentee ballot so I could vote, out of spite, for Dick Gregory. Now, with another one of these big bogus showdowns looming down on us, I can already pick up the stench of another bummer. I understand, along with a lot of other people, that the big thing, this year, is Beating Nixon. But that was also the big thing, as I recall, twelve years ago in 1960 – and as far as I can tell, we’ve gone from bad to worse to rotten since then, and the outlook is for more of the same.

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Fuck yes, inject it straight into my veins. I love getting into arguments with my family and friends over electoralism.

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    If we don't elect Joe Biden, we won't get a third Trump term. Instead we'll get a second one which is worse.