• frickineh@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    You know what? Don’t vote. You’ve done basically nothing but agitate for people to hand the election to Trump, and it’s obvious you’re either too privileged to be hurt by that or too stupid to realize that you will be. I hope that if he wins, you can look at all the people who lose their rights at best and die at worst, and feel really good about taking a stand or whatever in arguably the worst possible election to do that in in decades. I would love for there to be a genuinely progressive candidate with a snowball’s chance in hell of winning, but there isn’t. A progressive third party candidate (and Jill Stein is not it) is not going to win. That’s the reality we live in, and anyone pretending it’s not is either a liar, a child, or a moron. I have too much to lose by throwing my vote in the trash, but you do you.

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      You know you can be critical of the Dems and still vote for them. Everybody should be critical of all our politicians. Always.

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        You can be critical in a productive way, and you aren’t. It’s post after post of “Joe Biden Bad,” without any discussion of how to push for meaningful change that might make for a viable third party or a more progressive Democrat party. There’s a reason a ton of people have you blocked. When all you do is criticize, it’s only barely better than the obvious shills trying to get the left to vote for spoiler candidates or stay home, except at least they’re probably getting paid.

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          What can I say that will push Biden Left? He’s been shifting to the right. “We gotta get the Haley voters!”