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stolid_agnostic , in Young voters explain why they’re bailing on Biden, and whether they’d come back

I'm now convinced that a lot of this is trolling. People who say "Well I'm Muslim and it bothers me that Biden supports Israel so I won't vote for him" have to be completely out of touch with reality or are completely fake. Same thing here--not voting for Biden ensures that Trump wins, and your theoretical third-party person has no chance of doing anything except dilute the vote.

So? I'm really not buying this narrative or these polls anymore. The respondents are either morons or plants.

ShimmeringKoi ,
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Yeah, the people who don't want to vote for the fascist sending bombs to an ethnostate to kill their friends and families? They're the out of touch morons.

WetBeardHairs ,

One is a neoliberal that embraces a political philosophy where you turn a blind eye to suffering abroad for stability and prosperity at home.

The other is a wannabe dictator that repeatedly echos hitler and will lead to civil war where your neighbors, family, and yourself are put at risk of death and the destruction of your livelyhood.

One of them is more imminently dangerous to the voters who are tasked with casting votes.

TheLepidopterists ,
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He's not turning a blind eye, he's actively facilitating a genocide.

Many people are more moral than you and refuse to support anyone supporting a genocide.

WetBeardHairs ,

If there were a viable third option I would vote for them. Being moral in this situation means Trump would get elected and my family would be victims of political violence while that same apathetic blind eye turns away from us. It's a personal threat to my physical safety if Trump is elected.

Kuori ,
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right, so you care more about you and yours than millions of people in palestine. sounds about white

WetBeardHairs ,

Yes. It's not my job to stop all the wars in the world. I'm not going to sacrifice myself for that because it wouldn't make a difference.

ShimmeringKoi ,
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Motherfucker it's your job as an alleged human being to at least not actively support it

WetBeardHairs ,

Who says I give a fuck about humanity? We've shown ourselves time and time again to do the selfish thing to fuck people over. Guess what? I'm one of them. My selfish thing is "I don't want to be murdered by terrorists." There are terrorists over there and there are terrorists next door. Which one is imminently a threat to me? Not the one that is across the planet. But the second Trump gets power, he has said he will not prosecute terrorists.

satanicllamaplaza ,

You and trump got a lot in common. Hell you and Biden too. You should feel bad. Have a good day.

brain_in_a_box ,

Liberals, as ever, unable to accept that anybody might honestly disagree with them.

frauddogg , in Young voters explain why they’re bailing on Biden, and whether they’d come back
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satanicllamaplaza ,

You forgot “poor kids are just as bright as white kids”

spudwart , in Young voters explain why they’re bailing on Biden, and whether they’d come back

Three reminders:

The president isn't the only position of power in the US, it's just the most public and obvious one.

A vote against or withdrawn from Biden is a vote for Trump.

If Biden wins, we can try a new candidate in the next election. If Trump wins there won't be a next election.

frauddogg ,
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Boogeyman invocation, yawn

The hood doesn't live in democracy; all Trump will do is bring our conditions to your gated communities

outer_spec , in Silicon Valley’s worldview is not just an ideology; it’s a personality disorder. | Crooked Timber
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Personality disorders are stigmatized enough already, you don’t need to compare them to fucking tech bros

isaz ,

This … thank you!

darq , in The GOP has a master plan to criminalize LGBTQ people
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For those of us not in the US, I think this also highlights the real need to loosen the US's stranglehold on the Internet at large. The US has disproportionate power to control content on the Internet as a whole, because so many services and so much infrastructure resides there.

This highlights the importance of building redundant services elsewhere in the world, and moving content outside the US in general. So if the US tries to remove LGBTQ+ content in some cultural crusade, you laugh at them. Make them firewall it, like China, if they don't like it.

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