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Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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2020 was... truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn't get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.

My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I'm going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I'm done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I'm gonna do my best to fight that.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Fuck everyone in the US Government except Rashida Motherfucking Tlaib.

I’m going to write in Rashida Tlaib. It’s all bullshit. What is happening right now proves it. Even fucking Bernie Sanders sounds like a Warhawk right now.

Ps. You’re all a bunch of lesser evil voting shitlibs. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.

What did your harm reduction get us when we put Biden in office:

genocide with our tax money
cop city
stoking the Cold War and enthusiastically sending our tax money to interfere in another country’s business BECAUSE IT’S WHITE PEOPLE to enrich the Military Industrial Complex rather than helping US citizens
overturned Roe vs. Wade
no marijuana legalization (mark my words: until the primaries or GE next year when it will help Biden in the election)
Medicare for those who can afford it
austerity
austerity
more austerity

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I understand your frustration, but unless the voting system is modified to approval or ranked choice you are probably not acting in your best interest voting for a third party. I hate that fact as much as you and I want to see it changed, but that's the reality of the system we're in.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Literally ranked choice voting will never ever happen. We will always have First Past the Post and it will never change. This country is a sham democracy and I refuse to participate.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

That's the great part, by not participating you help the worst of them!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

Please explain to me what Biden and Trump would have done differently in the context of sending our tax money to turn Muslim people into hamburger.

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