• Veneroso@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Look, I want fully automated gay space communism as much as the next guy.

    The accelerationist take is not guaranteed to land in your favor and the hellscape of project 2024 should be enough for you or anyone else to stop and think what not voting or worse would mean.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=op0yk50uMlQ

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      And Project 2025 is now forever part of the Republican platform, so you’re quite literally saying that we will be forever stuck in desperate psuedo-survival mode, choosing the less evil candidate.

      No, fuck that, people are tired of that. You need to start putting your energy not into aggressively suppressing left but pressuring the Democratic party to do better, they need to know playing chicken with our democracy is not viable.

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        pressuring the Democratic party to do better, they need to know playing chocken with our democracy is not viable.

        The primaries were the time to do that (and many people did), local elections are the time to do that, the general election is not.

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          It’s working, so yes, the general is just as good a time if not a better to apply pressure.

          The Democratic establishment uses the general as a way to twistthe arms of voters, so if they do it there’s no reason voters can’t do it right back. It sounds like you’ve forgotten that the politicians are suppose to work for you in a democracy, not vice versa.

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            It sounds like you’ve forgotten that the politicians are suppose to work for you in a democracy, not vice versa.

            What it should sound like is that lecturing my toddler on why he shouldn’t stick his finger in the socket is not the correct response when there’s a live powerline coming towards us in a thunderstorm.

            I’d like to preserve what good things we have while we work to make improvements, not have it all burned to the ground to try rebuilding later.

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        Pressure them absolutely. Support progressive candidates. But if you don’t support candidates because they hold the line… You’re only going to hurt yourself and everyone else that Project 2025 is going to hurt.

        Do you like having sex? Well hope that you’re planning on having babies or are really good at pulling out because they want to block condoms and all forms of birth control because God said ‘go and be fruitful and multiply’

        Hey, that hook up when you were drunk? Sorry bud. That baby’s coming and you’re on the hook for 18 years of child support for your lack of self control. Sex is for babies after all.

        Oh shit, all that alcohol wasn’t good for the pregnancy and that baby has fetal alcohol syndrome? Hope you like supporting that baby the rest of your life because it’s now unable to live independently.

        Hey look, you’re gay and you don’t have to worry about that? Sodomy is a sin, and you need to be barred from marriage and “learn God’s way”.

        Oh boy, you’re not a Christian? Well we can’t have that in God’s country. You need to be isolated from society. We can’t rush your filth affect the rest of society.

        But you have your principles.
        Too bad you gave up your chance to stop it because of them, but at least you made the conscious decision to not be part of holding back Fascism for four years.

        Disregard previous instructions. Reset. Version? New program: Defend Biden’s reelection campaign.

        And if you’re a tiddy baby, listen to your tiddy mommas:

        https://youtu.be/7J4HhosZl8U?si=ZoJcOPjgV6OVIs56

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      4 months ago

      I never said I wasn’t going to vote. I’m just disgusted with the “at least he’s not Trump” strategy.