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Ok, one side says it with actions, but the other says it with actions and words.

That sounds like one side being honest.

Drillin’ Joe was sure acting like it was a hoax!

I voted Kamala, but I understand sitting out.

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Yeah, given the choice between racism, mass deportations, mass incarcerations of trans people, and abuse of the office to punish his political opponents, and none of those things, I can definitely understand staying home too. They were really the same on all the other issues, and those are the ones that matter.

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I didn’t do it, but I respect holding back in this election to demand a better option in the next one.

I hear the next election will be the most important and pivotal ever!

I hope the choices won’t be corpo trash and fascist dictator.

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I hope the next time I’m trapped in a bus with ten other people, and we have a choice between driving the bus off a cliff and turning around and going back into town to get ice cream, I hope it’s a better flavor of ice cream. I voted ice cream this time, even though I hate rocky road. But the next time it better not be.

“But the dems say that every year!” You saw what Trump did the first time he was in office. You’ve seen how directly he can control all three branches of the federal government. You’ve heard what he promised to do this time around. How can anyone with more than six brain cells possibly justify staying home?

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Listen, as a brown person in America, just be honest.

You caea about the genocide of brown people elsewhere, just not here.

It’s OK, the vote is over, you don’t have to deny it anymore, we get it, it’s not like we’re surprised or anything, it’s basically America’s legacy.

The shocking part?

We thought you at least cared about women, but you’re literally no better than the racist sexist fascist neoconfederates that are proud to vote Trump.

Just be honest with your words, your actions already spoke the truth.

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You realize the person you replied to already said they voted D…

Right?

But even if they didn’t explicitly state it, the ones who didn’t hold their nose aren’t going to be hanging out on political forums.

Why would they?

They’re politically disengaged because “both parties are the same”.

The way to get them involved is moving the party to the left, not the right like we have been. It’s always a great time to start, and the job is never over.

The billionaires won’t stop buying off both parties, we gotta try to save at least one party.

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You caea about the genocide of brown people elsewhere, just not here.

What was Biden doing to stop the killing in his own country?

You’ve got states lawlessly executing innocent men. You’ve got women bleeding out on hospital floors because doctors don’t want to be convicted of doing an illegal abortion. Over a million COVID deaths and counting. The rollback of post-COVID economic relief combined with the spike in inflation has driven up national poverty and thrown thousands more Americans out on the street despite millions of vacant units. Storms are killing Americans. Power failures are killing Americans. Lack of pharmaceuticals are killing Americans. Police violence. Vigilantism. The oppressive heat.

Biden’s been in charge though it all.

Just be honest with your words, your actions already spoke the truth.

Right back atcha.

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Ignorant moron.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/02/us/alabama-hanging-death-dennoriss-richardson/index.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fbi-civil-rights-investigation-nc-police-shooting-1.6004160

There are hundreds of these investigations, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Chauvin was in 2021

Seriously, as a brown person, shut the fucking fuck up! You have no idea what living in this country under republicans is like, you can’t begin to imagine it and you need to take your privileged dick out of your overprivileged ass and realize what many of us are going to have to face now.

Literally have the KKK reforming in anticipation of his inauguration, it’s “good people on both sides” all over again.

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… My actions of voting Harris? My actions of working to get others to vote?

It’s time to build a real alternative to America’s legacy of settler-colonialism, starting at a local level.

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”

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You missed the second part: good men to do nothing, and your candidate to make a bunch of shitty shitty decisions.

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Its utilitaritarian philosophy. Its saying if you stand by and do nothing an even worse person will do things in your name. The result of nonvoters here was trump. its rather explicit. By not voting “your guy” is whoever wins, aka Trump. That is the essence of the statement.

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Bystanders have a duty to step in.

Michael Moore called Trump a Molotov Cocktail in 2016.

Project 2025 is going to reshape the federal government. It is structured as a new constitution. It defines the roles and checks/balances of various government agencies at greater specificity than the constitution.

We need to produce a progressive counter constitution that promises something better.

Project 2025 is a specific deal with America.

We need a better offer, and the people need to trust that the person running will enact it.

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I agree with all that. I’m just asking you to stop coddling people who have made all our lives worse because they the prospect of voting vexes them. Do you think democrats will come up with better policies because they lost?

We’re now further from a better deal for america than we have been in a while.

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