• mozz@mbin.grits.dev
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    7 months ago

    Let’s take all that “You can’t POSSIBLY vote for GENOCIDE-adjacent person even if the alternative is LITERALLY A HUNDRED TIMES WORSE INCLUDING LOTS MORE GENOCIDE” energy

    And apply it to “You can’t POSSIBLY sit around typing on the internet while the world is falling apart, let’s get involved in direct activism to make the US a better place instead of hoping that voting is enough which it definitely isn’t”

    While also, yes, voting for “not the end of the world”

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      7 months ago

      But if they cosplay as a leftist IRL then their social groups, redcaps all, might see them and ostracize them.

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      7 months ago

      Hey, Trump was already president for four years, and didn’t do this despite the exact same scaremongering back then. His actions in office were practically identical to Biden’s now.