Not to say that everyone that votes for Trump is a Nazi, but we do know who the Nazis are voting for.
This is the saddest state of affairs ever. When your campaign is “it could be worse” it’s an insult to the working classes intelligence.
No, I’d say it’s exactly what we deserve.
Imagine if we had to vote for a national ice cream flavor. It would probably end up being pretty unpalatable for most people, but it’s the only one we can get even a plurality of people to vote for.
That’s a factor of our first-past-the-post system. We end up having to strategically vote against the ice cream we don’t want instead of for the ice cream we do want.
As someone who likes teaberry ice cream I don’t think anything other than anarchy will get me that flavor.
It would be vanilla vs literal shit. Everyone would complain about how boring vanilla is. The news would talk about how the literal shit doesn’t smell as bad as you’d think and complain that the vanilla ice cream isn’t even nutritious.
Shit would win with 48% of the vote.
TAKE THE FUCKING VANILLA!
Bruh, Trump has been repeatedly talking about using the military to quiet political dissent.
But that’s not the campaign. This is citizens telling other citizens that not casting a vote IS voting - for the obviously worse candidate.
Honest question…
How is it only and always a vote for the worst candidate, and not a vote for the better candidate? Like, couldn’t Republicans also argue that by not voting, you’re actually voting for Harris? From an objective standpoint, who would be correct?
Because historically the Republicans have had better turnout in swing states. Anger and hyperbole are great motivators, regardless of topic. Democrat-leaning folks tend not to be as angry, scared, and swayed by cult-like leaders, so tend to be more complacent. It’s a matter of trying to even the behavioral playing field. Not to mention the gerrymandering fuckery that has made it even harder for democrats to be fairly represented in crucial geographic areas. Finally, consider where the underhanded tactics are coming from, and rather than sink to that level, an OVERWHELMING and unquestionable show of support is needed for those tactics not to be successful.
It entirely depends on who you would vote for if pushed to vote for the viable candidates. If you would vote for Harris but don’t vote, it helps Trump because that’s one less vote he needs to beat. If you would vote for Trump but don’t vote, it helps Harris because that’s one less vote she needs to beat. So it’s true for every individual’s worst candidate.
When campaigns/people use this message, they’re usually pretty confident them and the person they’re talking to agree on who is the worst.
The “it could be worse” is “US is having a president who’s fine with using military action against his political opponents”, aka dictatorship.
It’s a sad state of affairs when a politician that cares about her country isn’t enough to get people to vote against a literal fascist who fantasizes about being a dictator.
I’m a broken record today, but please grab a few hours to phone bank or door knock with us today. Phone banking can be done on your couch, and you won’t feel like a POS if the fascists win and you could’ve spent 2 hours after dinner on a Sunday to secure a few more votes.
Plus also make sure to encourage and remind any dem leaning people you know to get out and vote. Friends, family, neighbors, etc it makes more of a difference than you might think
And bring a friend of your phone banking. Grab a beer, have fun with it. It’s not hard and you’re going to be targeting sympathetic voters, not the maga brainwashed.
Also also worth noting that there’s also even phone banking on Tuesday on election day too if you want something to do that day beyond just voting (if you have not yet voted)
For the first time in my life I phone banked for Harris/Walz starting last month. I was expecting to be yelled at by Trumpers but that wasn’t the case. In case anyone is nervous about making the calls, you dont call Trump supporters, you call Dems and Independents to remind them it’s time to vote and how they can get information on voting. I haven’t had any nasty calls yet.
Correct. The calls are very targeted toward helping people correct a ballot that isn’t being counted, or helping / nudging sympathetic voters to get out.
A random volunteer ain’t going to be able to deprogram years of maga propaganda in a 2 minute phone call. Those calls are a waste of time. Turnout calls are more effective.
But how do you get their numbers? Just dial randomly and hang up if the person sounds Republican?
When you register to vote here, you can have a party affiliation and can give them permission to contact you.
When you volunteer with a campaign, you don’t get the phone numbers and don’t use your actually cell phone. You use a dialer program where the campaign dials and connects you via your computer. So you click a button that says you are ready to do a call, the program then uses their phone system to dial someone in their system and it connects the call to you via your computer. The phone numbers come from wherever campaigns get their lists from.
Hey, I was working solo through a 42-door canvass list when I saw your post, it was encouraging!
Dunno, I’m not a natural at this, so I’m still “decompressing”. I kept thinking of that picture with the kid holding a sign saying “It’s so bad, even the introverts are here!”
The door knocking is definitely more of a positive thing, but I got about 2-3 effective calls in a 2 hour window.
And if you get 50 people in a phone bank, that can translate to 100 ballots cured and or people at the polls.
And when you’re talking about elections that are won by hundreds of votes, that phone time matters.
I would volunteer for a campaign (or even just donate) in a heartbeat… but it’s unethical… I’m one of our nation’s poor, underpaid and overworked local news media staffers. To be clear, I’m not a journalist, but the rules preventing any appearance of impropriety apply to me as well. I can’t give up my job to work pro bono on campaigns (and it’s dubious for me to donate). I can’t have the journalists I work with appear to have any kind of hand on this (or any) election.
I beg you, please vote for Harris/Walz… that’s my personal opinion which does not reflect the stance or opinions of my employer or any of our clients/sponsors… which include the Donald Trump for President 2024 campaign and it’s affiliated PAC’s (honestly it’s wild having the fucking Trump campaign being both the reason I cannot but barely afford my bills and the thing getting me close to paying them). Seriously, the years 2016 to 2020 were a living hell for us working in local news. Fear of constant threats if we depicted “dear leader” in any light other than brilliant magnificence. How dare we report on the things Trump said and did if it looked bad in any way. Seriously… it was the most stressed I’ve been in my entire life and I’m a queer atheist living in the deep south. Also, no, I’m not moving… all my stuff and most of my friends are here.
Not to say that everyone that votes for Trump is a Nazi, …
I’ll say it. It’s fascism. It’s been fascism for a long time. People who vote for fascism are fascists.
Fascism is correct, but Nazism is more accurate.
Although not all fascists believed in biological racism, it played a central role in the actions of those who did. Nazism was viciously racist, especially in its attitude toward Jews.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Varieties-of-fascism
I did some door knocking with Pence’s former national security advisor last night and got to shoot the shit with her. Never thought I would be doing that.
Suffice to say, she is firmly in the camp of “he’s a fascist,” and according to her, what he says behind close doors is even scarier.
Also, she claims (like other Trump officials) that he doesn’t give 2 shits about his voters behind closed doors. He views them as plebs to con that so he can accumulate more wealth and more power.
Your Jesus didnt protect his flock from the pedophile priests, so “trusting” him now is not going to save you from being violated.
Assuming this is true, why didn’t she publicly say any of this right after Biden came to power?
100% true, although either way we’re voting in someone who says they will assist in further war crimes. But I guess at least we arent All fascists. So we’ve got that going for us.
The only war crimes you care about are the ones you can use to get fascism elected.
Why is everyone waiting for the perfect choice that will never come?
I’m thinking through the last half dozen presidents and I don’t see how Kamala is far worse than any of them, that people are making comments like this
only Vote Harris because a Trump vote means fascism even though getting corralled into only one choice is fascism too?
when both choices are fascists only chance is riots
US has had plenty it just needs another one
Wouldnt having only one choice be closer to authoritarianism in general, not fascism specifically?
Once you’re an authoritarian helping genocide I don’t think you need to bust out the 14 pillars, but Harris isn’t an authoritarian in a useful sense of the word.
She’s just ultimately working for the oligarchy, which is an aspect of government you can not remove from liberalism.
https://www.thoughtco.com/totalitarianism-authoritarianism-fascism-4147699
hard to tell them apart these days but yes
This comment is evidence that the Russian version of ChatGPT doesn’t have a definition for fascism.
Okay, Trump won, just like you wanted.
Where are the riots? Or are we waiting for them to start committing genocide against queer people first?
I assume we’re feeding queer people to the fascist machine first to punish the Democrats. Or did you have another marginalized group in mind?
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