I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home.

Not voting isn’t going to stop the genocide in Gaza. The US will continue to funnel them arms no matter which candidate wins this November. Trump practically campaigns on how much he hates the Jews and he’s publicly told Israel to “finish up their war”. He’ll also make life a living hell for anyone who isn’t a straight cisgender male back here at home.

A vote for a candidate is not an endorsement of them or their policies, it’s a statement that you like their policies more than the other guy’s, and “sticking it to liberals” and “refusing to support genocide” (that’s not what voting for Biden is doing, by the way – a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide and a vote for neither is an endorsement of both) is not more important than keeping the furthest right politician America has ever seen out of office.

How incredibly privileged do you have to be to see an entire national election as what will happen in the Middle East and ignore Trump’s campaign promises to wipe transgender Americans off the map, and further, to not realize that the same thing will happen in the Middle East regardless of which candidate wins?

I hate Biden as much as every other leftist here. But I’ll still vote for him because Trump is worse. If there’s a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too.

  • Lemmy@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Vote for a different canadite besides Trump and Biden. Why are you wasting your vote on someone you don’t like?

    • AVincentInSpaceOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Here’s a copy paste of the first paragraph of the original post. Maybe you’ll read it this time.

      I don’t like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, like ranked choice or approval, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home.

      I’m not wasting my vote on a third party candidate because I know they can’t win even if God himself came down from the heavens and held a sermon telling people to vote for them.

      • Lemmy@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        Well, maybe just stop having that mentality and things will change? I’m still going to vote for someone else, I don’t care. It’d be better than not putting a vote in at all.

        • AVincentInSpaceOPEnglish
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          8 months ago

          Well, maybe just stop having that mentality and things will change?

          Did you read a single word I wrote?

            • AVincentInSpaceOPEnglish
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              8 months ago

              Let me make it simpler, since it’s clear leftists can’t read.

              Even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win.

              Third party candidates. Do not have. A chance.

              Voting for them is a waste of a vote. Vote for Biden, to at least increase the odds that Trump will lose.

              • Lemmy@lemm.ee
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                8 months ago

                I’m going to vote for Trump just because you said that ;P

                • AVincentInSpaceOPEnglish
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                  8 months ago

                  Oh thank God, you’re a troll. I was scared for a moment there.