For context, Dick Cheney announced that he’ll be voting for Kamala Harris.

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        No fucking shit.

        Oh yeah, I forgot, some of you can only see the world in black and white red or blue… 🙄

        News flash: a (very fucking marginally) lesser evil is still fucking evil, and you’re never going to be free of either as long as you continue to play by the rules they’ve set out for you (in fact, you’ll only ever achieve the opposite - the continued shift to the right of the Overton window to its inevitable conclusion).

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            That’s the neat part, if you aren’t American you can agitate and tell people “don’t vote, voting for the lesser evil means you end up with slightly less evil and that’s bad, instead you should not vote or ignore mathematics existing and vote third party which is a fancy way of not voting” and then suffer no consequences.

            Tell people not to vote and the party that wants to “hurt the right people” gets into power, doesn’t matter, those policies don’t touch foreign agitators.

            I’ve been in the depths of the leftist circle jerk about this. You see if we all sat home on Election Day reading Marx, then the oligarchs who rule over us would see that no one is taking part in the charade anymore. Then those oligarchs who wield tremendous wealth and power would just give up, you know, the turnout too low. All those people refused to endorse the democratic farce any further and so clearly those with power would be so red faced with embarrassment they would voluntarily give up that power and abolish capitalism.

            Those oligarchs certainly wouldn’t be delighted by the fact that the population is even cheaper and easier to control because people are sitting out. Nope, we will certainly show them by allowing them to dominate us with even more ease and at bargain prices, certainly that will end the system.

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              if you aren’t American you can agitate and tell people “don’t vote, voting for the lesser evil means you end up with slightly less evil and that’s bad, instead you should not vote or ignore mathematics existing and vote third party which is a fancy way of not voting” and then suffer no consequences.

              The entire planet suffers the consequences when Trump undoes all climate action and destabilises the world.

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              ignore mathematics existing and vote third party which is a fancy way of not voting

              I live in a blue state. Using this logic, my vote for Harris is the same as not voting, because my state is going to go blue regardless. It’s mathematics.

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        Lol, that still leads right back to “tell me who your friends are”.

        You can try to twist this all you like to spare your own discomfort, it won’t change who he is, why he’s supporting her, and what it means about who you’re voting for (a conservative, and against your own best interests, either way. Because endorsements like these tell you whose interests they’re are appealing to, and you really only need to be paying the very slightest of attention to realise it ain’t yours).

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        He’s neither to you, only to himself and his interests.

        Again - no matter how you people try to twist it to make yourselves feel better about it - Cheney is endorsing his own interests, and only his, and the interests of a wealthy conservative war monger will never align with yours, no matter how much you try to convince yourself otherwise (accidental alignment doesn’t make one an ally, unless you also want to reach for Hitler as your example and justification, but be warned, you too will reek of pathetic desperation lmao).

        You see trump as the embodiment of fascism (when in truth he’s only a symptom), while Cheney sees him as the loose lipped child giving away the fascist family secrets. He’s not endorsing dems because he’s no longer conservative, he’s endorsing dems because they make him feel safe and looked after, and if that isn’t enough to tell you where “blue no matter who” leads, I have bad news for you: you’re a fully fledged member of a cult. Just like a maga cap wearer - voting against your own interests because it’s “your team” no matter how many red banners they wave in your face and blaring alarms they ring in your ears.