• idiomaddict@feddit.de
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    3 months ago

    You’re absolutely right that there’s a lot of nuance here. People living in red, blue, and purple states each have a different calculus involved, and it’s not simple. If it were, the polls would be much more in favor of Biden, because even among republicans, fewer and fewer people support trump.

    If Biden cut military ties with Israel or did something to stop or hinder them from continuing to commit genocide, I would probably vote for him. I don’t really like him, even with that taken out, but I would feel like my vote there would reinforce something I want to reinforce in democrats. As it is, I still don’t know.

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      3 months ago

      I mean, in Biden we’re talking about a political power broker who was invited to be the VP even after he referred to Obama as “articulate and bright and clean.” That’s…WILD that that was publicly said about a black man in my lifetime.

      And the Israel support, and smelling kids’ hair, and the epic Popcorn the bully story, and the black kids rubbing his leg hair story…like…grandpa ain’t making too much sense sometimes these days.

      And then the other side produces a narcissist with a clear personality disorder who isn’t doing that well cognitively himself…these are our best and brightest, huh? Wow.

      And this argument that a vote for a third party is essentially a vote for Trump…it’s not, and I don’t know when we made politics into a team sport, but it feels kind of weird to me.

      Whichever family of weirdos gets in, they’re gonna make a whole bunch of money in legally gray ways, and it ain’t gonna enrich you a single penny. So you can put down the foam finger and stop cheering for your “side.”