• Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    A vote for Biden is a vote for Trump. Real patriots will write in Hillary Clinton and peace will be achieved on earth. America will ascend into the heavens as light itself leads us to utopia. TANKKKIES like Rob Reiner will try to convince you otherwise.

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    Yeesh. Libs are going to be ugly for at least the next 11 months. What will they say if Trump wins?

    Since I’ve been back home for Thanksgiving break, I’ve had in depth conversations with four Arab relatives and family friends. All four have said they won’t vote for Biden in 2024. They insist they will abstain, even if it ends up benefitting Trump.

    Then they’ll end up in camps or being deported. I guess that’s real solidarity with Gaza.

    Nitter

    She has a Wikipedia page

    Rachel Bitecofer

    Rachel Bitecofer (born February 23, 1977) is an American political scientist.

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      And she’ll sit by and cluck her tongue about how they should’ve voted different as they’re loaded into the camps

      You know, instead of actually doing something about it

      A real, “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos” moment

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      Since I’ve been back home for Thanksgiving break, I’ve had in depth conversations with four Arab relatives and family friends. All four have said they won’t vote for Biden in 2024. They insist they will abstain, even if it ends up benefitting Trump.

      Then they'll end up in camps or being deported. I guess that's real solidarity with Gaza.
      

      smuglord

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      She has a Wikipedia page

      It’s been a hot minute since I’ve seen someone in desperate need of being sent to a work camp, but holy shit this person has a PHD in fucking polysci. Work camp isn’t enough for her, she’s gotta get sent to middle America to work for every mee-maw and pawpawp petty business tyrant from sea to meow-shining sea

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        Her friends and family and associates must all be just like her. If I’m right - she doesn’t even think of what she’s saying as extreme because for her everybody has the same opinion and I guess they are smug about it too.

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      Heh, you have a problem with Biden committing a genocide? Trump would do two genocides. These are the only two options and you’re an idiot for even considering a third. This is democracy.

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    If a vote for every other party enables fascism, then why not just ban every other party and institute a one-party blue government instead of wasting time, money, and energy on this circus every 2-4 years?

    NOOOO ITS NOT DEMOCRATIC!!! wojak-nooo

    And apparently neither is voting for anybody else so…

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      Then you suggest ranked choice voting, the least radical reform possible that has already passed in multiple parts of the US

      NOOOO I’M TOO STUPID TO FIGURE OUT RANKED CHOICE, SO WE HAVE TO KEEP IT THIS WAY!!! wojak-nooo

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    yes, voting for a third party is like voting for trump, too. in fact, it’s practically 2 votes for the price of one. if you love democracy then you’ll do it. only a fascist would relinquish their extra vote. biden is half the value

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    I say with no no hyperbole that may honestly be one of the saddest tweets I have ever read.

    That’s a reply to the following George Takei tweet. Takei’s tweet is artful where Reiner’s is crude and annoying but it’s still a lecture on how we must vote for the democrats.

    A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.

    It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.

    But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.

    I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.

    Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.

    There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too.

    Tweet

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      In the adage the trees only voted for the axe.

      Looks like these days the trees are even writing eulogy to the axe while they vote for it.