• Melkath@kbin.earth
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    5 months ago

    True, but Biden is the sitting President of the United States who is trying to secure the liberal vote for reelection, so he is the one that matters right now.

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        5 months ago

        I’m not sure I understand the question.

        Trying to answer, I’d say that the prompt is being created by a “boolean brain”.

        Sorry if that seems harsh.

        The American ballot has never been boolean (true or false, 2 answers accepted ONLY, in code 0 or 1, in practice apples or oranges).

        America had always had ballots explicitly designed to not be boolean.

        You can pick blue. You can pick red. You can pick “naw”, you can pick chartreuse (Ross perot).

        The American ballot has always been designed for democracy.

        This cycle, more than any cycle in the past, I feel we are being bullied into “Pick geriatric white male genocidal tyrant A or pick geriatric white male genocidal tyrant B”.

        One wholesale geriatric white male genocides, but can sit for an hour speaking (outrageously stupid) sweet nothings to the crowds.

        The other geriatric white male genocides, but can’t get 12 words into an isolated white house address before fucking it all up and shuffling out the door like his pampers are full.

        I reject the narrative that American democracy is boolean.

        I’d love Ro Khanna running for president with Bernie Sanders as his VP, running Independent. I would vote for that all day for 1000 days.

        Since I won’t be able to vote for that, I plan on abstaining, and hoping for liberal leadership that is anti war, would never engage in genocide, who will give Flint clean drinking water, and above all else, deserves a fucking vote.

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          What I am saying is that when it comes to this is that either if Republican or Democrat comes in it’s a moot point they both align on Israel so Biden being pro Israel shouldn’t make you vote for Trump (not that I thought you would) as nothing will change on that instance. Foreign policy is also a special beast that sure the parties can influence it does what it does based on all the hands that are in the pie.

          If you vote third party or abstain more power to you.

          This all being said I am not American so I don’t get to decide, I just get to watch and hope that nobody here looks and decides whatever happens there is a good idea here. That and my own countries politics sucks just as much.

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        5 months ago

        I would see it as an extremely astute view, considering how important everyone is saying it is that we keep Trump out of office.

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            5 months ago

            LOL!

            The absolute unfettered cognitive dissonance.

            The platform on which Biden runs is extremely complex and to focus on a very important, if not number 1 topic is “myopic”, but in general, your entire argument for why Biden should be voted for gets reduced down to “Trump bad. Unga bunga.”

            Blue MAGA at its finest.

            Edit: I’m ashamed of my use of “LOL!”.

            I leave this comment as a reminder of my shortcoming.

            The rest I stand by.