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I don’t begrudge the people who don’t want to vote for him. For those who see their vote as support and complicity, I understand the reluctance. If Biden suddenly said fuck gay and trans people tomorrow, I would not be a happy camper. I would not be happy voting for a politician who hates gay people and deny them their rights.

But I would still do it. And I hope everyone who doesn’t want to vote for him still comes around in November to reluctantly do so.

I honestly don’t even know what to say about this one… liberalism means voting against gay marriage for the sake of preserving the liberal democracy that… ends gay marriage…


Maybe I’m just getting old, but I have no problem seeing the vast difference between the two choices we’re going to be given in November.

No matter how much the children in the room piss and moan, there are realistically only two choices - 3rd party candidates only exist to spoil it for whomever they’re ideologically closer to of the two “real” candidates. Furthermore, Biden has turned out better than I expected - and I’m a Bernie Sanders kinda guy!

smuglord the grownups in the room have to make the hard choices and get shit done


Absolutely [I would vote for Joe Brandon]. There’s no other reasonable option. There are other options. None of them are reasonable.

commiting genocide makes you a reasonable option


And let’s not forget the right-wing trolls that shill the propaganda that feed the leftists rhetoric.

the anti-facists are the real nazis


Man I just want to vote for a better candidate not strategically vote so the worst one doesn’t get elected. Why tf isn’t Trump in jail yet

a lib gets so close to understanding

Sometimes life is about making the least worse decision rather than the best one.

and liberals can’t help themselves maybe-later-kiddo


I vote for Pedro

this lib teleported in from 2004. one of the more reasonable comments too


Imagine how cool it would be if the choice was not between Donald Trump and Joe Biden but instead between Gavin Newsom and Nikki Haley.

i can’t do this anymore even the libs downvoted this one I’ll let you enjoy the rest… if you dare

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I won’t tell you how to feel, but ultimately I think that an epistemology that lumps people in that way and is, by your own admittance, uninterested in how the machine you oppose works or why its supporters support it, will find itself far less able to actually oppose that machine. If you want to destroy it, it is in your interest to understand it as well as you can.

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      The way I approach it is a calculus of ‘vulnerable lives saved by ripping out the weed’ versus ‘vulnerable lives lost trying to save fascist souls’. Winning the heart and mind of a fascist means so much less to me than protecting the vulnerable they’d destroy; and the minority grinder will not stop at Palestine. I’m not trying to watch the pace of my community getting fed to it increase because we got jammed up trying to change the stripes on a tiger.

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        I share your hatred of these smug ghouls as well as your despair that we such a small minority. NGL having a really hard time handling all this mentally. IDK how long-time comrades do it. Everything is so bleak and feels hopeless and worst of all people just don’t fucking care.

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        The way I approach it is a calculus of ‘vulnerable lives saved by ripping out the weed’ versus ‘vulnerable lives lost trying to save fascist souls’. Winning the heart and mind of a fascist means so much less to me than protecting the vulnerable they’d destroy; and the minority grinder will not stop at Palestine. I’m not trying to watch the pace of my community getting fed to it increase because we got jammed up trying to change the stripes on a tiger.

        Beautifully said!