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    We have more than two seconds, and what does this have to do with criticizing a sitting president? Explain. I’m not allowed to highlight the atrocities his administration commits?

    Edit: You have to kill the person, and you aren’t allowed to complain about it either. One way is “murder the people” and the other choice is “murder the innocent person #Pride #BLM” – we’re not allowed to talk about how colossally shitty it was to establish this trolley system in the first place?

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      We have more than two seconds

      Not in the trolley scenario you don’t. But in the situation it represents, how do you, personally, plan to “burn the trolley and rip up the tracks” before November?

      what does this have to do with criticizing a sitting president?

      Fomenting electoral apathy in the conscientious portion of the population just before a close election empowers the candidate preferred by the non-conscientious portion of the population. I’m all for criticisms, but leftist infighting, and refusing to “big-tent” with neo-liberals in election years, only benefits the right.

      The opposition learned how to play the game and move things incrementally towards their goals. Letting idealism obstruct pragmatism is only making things worse, even when your ideals are right. Play the game or lose.

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        Play the game or lose.

        So what you’re saying is we have a terrible undemocratic system that was founded on the ideals of oppression and genocide, and that there’s no hope of fixing it. Got it.

        Fuck the fascist United States.

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          Never said that, but smugly refusing to participate because it’s flawed is not an effective path toward fixing it. Conservatives have been gutting civil liberties by patiently toeing the line and playing by the rules of the game to develop their position over decades. Progressives have been splitting vote (or just straight up not voting) because they let their ideals prevent them from compromising on winning strategies.

          Ideals and principles are great guiding stars to aim toward, and I desperately hope to live to see fully automated luxury gay space communism, but refusing to vote for the lesser evil isn’t getting us any closer. It’s just bringing us closer to an actual fascist United States.

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            Only incredibly privileged or naive people are able to view this system as ‘flawed’. It works perfectly.

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                Supporting genocidal actions is not an acceptable tolerance.

                It’s a hard line and if you people want to support someone that does something like that, no matter which side or on then we deserve whatever fucking comes to us.

                Arm yourselves, and be ready, learn how to grow plants and how to hunt.

                Between potatoes and greens and beans. You can survive for a while on a nutritious fucking diet even when shit starts gets scarce.

                It’ll be hard, but we will make it.

                I’m not even suggesting for prepper shit, just stuff that was common knowledge less than 100 years ago that we forgotten because of the society that we have now.

                Hell, I own grow bags that I could hang out in an apartment window and grow stuff 20 feet off the ground with no balcony

                Before he went to jump down my throat, I mean, no one really knows where their food comes from anymore or how to throw their own.

                I am making no assertions other than that when I talk about the things that society has forgotten because of the way it is now

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                  Yeah, my husband and I have talked about the idea of moving to rural Mexico. Not that things are great in that nation either, but it’s a warmer climate where my relatives live with lots of potential for growing food, keeping chickens, drawing fresh water, and being able to survive even if things go down. Maybe even get a group of people together to make it work.

                  Honestly, I’d not be sorry to see a nation like the US crumble, but I’d feel concerned for the people who would suffer and die as a result.

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                I don’t find a system that provides me with only two choices – one being a candidate who actively persecutes immigrants and Native people and denies people basic rights like housing and healthcare while sending arms to genocidal regimes, and the other being the same but also wanting to establish a theotratic autocracy – to fall within the acceptable range. I’d probably not listen to anyone who finds this situation remotely acceptable.

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            Who’s “smugly refusing” though? I’m bristling at the suggestion that a sitting president should be immune from criticism, especially one who is ACTIVELY supporting genocide!

            an actual fascist United States.

            I’ve got bad news for you about us. We’re already a fascist state. Yes, it can get worse, but just the existence of agencies like ICE and our entire fucked up history paints a grim picture of what we are.

            So if you’re telling me my only choices are either a genocidal maniac or a slightly less genocidal maniac, then I’ll tell you we do not have a democracy. That is NOT a democracy that you’re describing. You admit this, right?

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            The “why should I vote” brigade are just making excuses for their laziness. Slacktivism is not a benefit to society like they think.

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              The “why should I vote” brigade

              Show me where they are in this thread. They’re not here.

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                  Lol okay, but this so-called “why should I vote” brigade is STILL not here. Sounds like a strawman to me, because zero 1 (one) users in this thread are saying not to vote.

                  Update: One user referenced not voting as a strategy to affect change, but then said that now is not the time for such a strategy

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                    I did, sorry. But it has to be done in big enough numbers, which would not be possible right now. So, vote and start organizing for the next elections.