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

submitted 1 year ago by Jordan_Jordan@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] shiveyarbles 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't understand accepting tyranny. The two party system kind of sucks and we can work on it, but once you accept the tyranny of an authoritarian, you're fucked. Oh boohoo Biden is old and centrist, the option is a dumpster fire that is infinitely worse.

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

old and centrist

You forgot to put "and genocidal". Which I guess is centrist in Amerikkka these days.

[–] Rudith 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately he's still the better choice. There is a sum to this comparison. Do we think Trump would not be genocidal in the ways you're referencing?

[–] OprahsedCreature@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Let's assume you're right. Why would anyone vote for anyone committing genocide? Voting third party or abstaining would be your only moral option in this scenario, otherwise you're complicit. At this point the number of dead Palestinian children is conservatively 4000. If you contribute to reelecting a leader enabling that, their blood is on your hands.

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When will tyranny happen? Trump was president before and everyone thought that he was going to take over as tyrant but he never did because he's too lazy for that. Biden has been involved in murdering civilians overseas for like 40 years and trump hasn't. Trump is the lesser of two evils

[–] shiveyarbles 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You weren't paying attention, there was a failed attempt at a coup of the US government.

[–] MisterScruffy@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The coup failed because Trump is a lazy moron and tried to asked the military to back him up on the day and they said no. A coup cannot happen without military support and trump is never going to get that from the generals and officers who run the us military. Too many of them are democrats.

The bad outcome that you're worried about is happening right now the current president is supporting genocide overseas and has supported mass slaughter for his entire long career

[–] shiveyarbles 2 points 1 year ago

No you're being hilariously ridiculous. Good day