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140 upvotes, 156 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in LGBTQIA+. "I’m going to kms"
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Anonymous 8w

leftists who actually think like this are absolutely insufferable. you are one of the reasons this country has turned to absolute shit

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Anonymous 8w

So. I say this not to you specifically but to people generally. Shut the hell up. The primary for this election is a year and a half away, IF IT HAPPENS IN THE FIRST PLACE. All you’re doing is getting mad at a ticket that doesn’t exist.

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Anonymous 8w

guys the point of this post is that kamala harris clearly did not have a big enough base to beat trump in 2024. if we want to have a democratic candidate that is able to appeal to enough republicans that they swing, it likely won’t be her. and unfort that’s how there’s a shot at getting another version of trump away from office

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Anonymous 8w

Yeah bc this would mean awful news for everyone 😱 be so fr rn

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Anonymous 8w

I’m with you on this. It’s really disappointing to see people cave and settle so easily. The primaries haven’t even begun and people are already shrugging and accepting whatever. They could push for more but, no. They preach about “electoral viability” and yet their prime candidate lost their last bid. That doesn’t scream viable. It’s indicative of the rot of the system. And it’s even more sad bc they’re not bleeding hearts or fervent libs they just accept what’s given and don’t fight this front

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Anonymous 8w

So many of you are being intentionally obtuse about this

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Anonymous 8w

The vote blue no matter who people in this comment section who demand we continue putting up with democrats who don’t do anything to help us, the world, or really anyone and continue doing everything they can to maintain the status quo are going to kill this country Literally wake up people. “They aren’t Trump” is NOT good enough. They need to be GOOD candidates. We must DEMAND this going forward. Not just less bad. They must earn our votes by being votable. Just being a Democrat isn’t enough

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Anonymous 8w

Fuck yeah!! This is good wtf are you complaining about. Plus finallt some women in the presidency. It’s way overdue

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Anonymous 8w

why did they choose that picture of Harris? this all seems like typical X engagement bait. Pretty sure they even get paid for posting X tweets people engage with. not worth paying mind to.

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Anonymous 8w

Not voting is not and never will be an effective protest bc your vote doesn’t monetarily benefit anyone. It’s not like a strike or a fucking boycott. There is no universe in which enough people don’t vote so we get a new set of presidential candidates. That’s not how the system works. By not voting, you signal that you’re ok with either outcome, not that you hate both of them. End of story, full stop

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

And like, not to leave it unsaid, these are two non-white women. You could have chosen to post about the “rumored” Newsom run, which has more evidence to back up its existence, but you chose to post about this one.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

and im saying this as someone on the left

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

Explain why me not liking people who financed genocides is wrong

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

it’s not wrong. but guess who’s president right now? someone who’s besties with netanyahu who literally got us into a war because he’s his little doggy. the democratic party, kamala, the establishment are all flawed. but caving to someone who’s objectively 10x worse has killed so many more Palestinians and Lebanese.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

I refuse to support that helped carry out the genocide. Point blank period.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

and also, the system can’t change on a term by term basis. you can’t just expect people to suddenly vote for leftist candidates and pray they’ll win like that. the country reforms slowly. if you protest by not voting you are literally letting the party thats so much worse win and that’s unforgivable in my opinion. keeping the right in control strays you further from ending genocide and actually makes it worse

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

I really wish we were in a position to be picky like this and that is how it should be but unfortunately the left is the only party that’s gonna think like this so it’s just gonna cause us to lose and be in an even worse position

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

You say that as if Harris had any say whatsoever in that decision. She didn’t. We don’t know a hypothetical President Harris’s foreign policy, because it didn’t happen, and we have no reason to assume that that will change.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

She did have a choice. Keep supporting a genocide or resign. She made her choice, as did I when it came to viewing her in any positive light. When she was running for president she could’ve said she would end aide to Israel, she could’ve at the very least called it a genocide. She refused.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

Have you considered that if we keep voting for them out of fear of the other party, then they have no reason to improve? If they can always say, “well it’s us or Trump/Vance/whatever” and we vote, there’s no incentive for them to appeal to the public?

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Have you considered that IF WE DONT VOTE FOR THEM WE GET FUCKING ICE KIDNAPPING PEOPLE IN BROAD DAYLIGHT TO SEND THEM TO DEATH CAMPS.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

That’s not a choice. Those are not choices. I’m sorry that you’re too privileged to realize that the lesser of two evils is better than the worse. Or you’re just a sockpuppet trying to sow division, who knows.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

No, not point blank period. This attitude is what got us Trump AGAIN. Please, stop with the purity tests. Is what you said bad? Yes, HOWEVER what republicans are doing is much worse. They’re committing genocide among other atrocities.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Single issue voting will be the downfall of liberty. You can’t get EVERYTHING you want from a candidate. The world doesn’t work like that. What you can do is vote for the person who will fill a MAJORITY if nobody fills all.

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 8w

Purity test? I’m not talking about her misgendering a non-binary person. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A GENOCIDE THATS KILLED 73k PEOPLE AND COUNTING

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

So let me ask you, how does this end, you keep voting for the lesser of two evils forever? No meaningful change for the rest of our lives? Kamala literally said that the reason she lost was the left was too liberal when it came to trans people.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 8w

“Guys yes I know Pol Pot is bad, but Hitler is worse, we gotta vote for Pol Pot cause he’s the lesser of two evils!” Do you even hear yourself.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Well if it’s the only two options then yes, vote for the person who will do the least amount of damage. We’ve got a mf who is hellbent on killing anyone who isn’t rich, you can handle a Kamala presidency. You have enough privilege to be a single issue voter. The majority of us do not.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Do you hear yourself… our options aren’t Pol Pot vs German Dictator, it’s Chamberlain vs German Dictator. You’re on team German Dictator.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

I’m on team genocide is bad. Kamala is on team “Israel has a right to defend itself”. Supporting her is aligning yourself with that and Trump.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Where the fuck did Kamala say that. Cite your sources. And no. You’re conflating so many things. You can in fact fight for change without supporting American nazis

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

No you arent: and no it isn’t. You’re an idiot or a fascist in disguise.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

I voted for Harris in 2024. Her loss and the reaction to the defeat of the Dems in 2024 by many fellow Dems has me thinking I won’t vote for her again. And that’s not even taking into account the war crimes and human rights abuses that continue regardless of admin (when it doesn’t happen on our soil, it doesn’t matter is much apparently)

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

*as

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

i don’t agree w what OP is saying but kamala has received millions from israel and you can literally look up her history with them and the support she has shown for their government

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself and I will always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself," she said tonight. She said that Israelis should "never again" go through the horror and "unspeakable" attacks of Oct. 7.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

I’d be much more likely to vote for AOC but that doesn’t erase any guilt I’d feel over what’s not discussed. Mamdani would be even better, probably the best in the country, but he can’t run

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

quote from a speech she gave at the dnc a couple years ago

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

From August 2024 almost a year into the genocide with 40k dead Palestinians

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

yeah like idk i’ll vote for her if it’s her vs trump but i will in no means act as though she is a good candidate. she’s less vocal about her support of israel now(probably to win the court of public opinion) but she still hasn’t called it a genocide and keeps dancing around it

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

It kind of would because it’s just Biden 2.0 which means dems will do absolutely nothing while the right steamrolls over everyone’s human rights

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 8w

I agree they wouldn’t be the best option but I think Biden 2.0 just isn’t true. AOC at least cares a lot about the American people and while she backs ppl I definitely wouldn’t right now I just want someone who isn’t gonna run for a third term and doesn’t eat babies. It’s unfortunate that the bar is in literal hell but

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Anonymous 8w

Hey, not okay. Genuinely fuck you. Not an acceptable topic of comedy on a forum for queer people.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

I’m confused… the post didn’t indicate that OP refused to vote for Harris in the past or that they’d refuse to in the future. obviously it turns out you were right to presume that about OP, but all the post itself had expressed was disappointment with this candidacy announcement that being the case, why did you jump to such a hostile reply right out the gate? wouldn’t you prefer to see a better presidential candidate running on the dem side too?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

vote for them if you feel it's best but don't go pledging your support without pushing for them to earn it

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Cmon now. We all know of the newsom rumor. Harris has been the question mark that we all don’t want to see. We’re tired of her milquetoast neolib bs and it’s disappointing to see her billed to us as “progress” when in reality she is still an agent of the very establishment that is hurting us

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Anonymous 8w

You idiots are gonna be the reason we fucking lose again and everyone loses their rights. WE CANT HELP OTHERS IF WE ARE DYING

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

she’s not even a candidate yet. just advocate for someone who doesn’t love israel

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

Either we win with a real candidate, or we revolt. Prepare and train

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

I have been but if it’s between a third Trump term and then I’m voting them bc we can’t let that shit happen

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

okay that doesnt mean shes a good option. why are you defending her when it doesnt even matter yet

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

People have been dying. Now it’s just televised and politically salient and useful. I don’t expect them to fix this shit. Hell when Trump was caging kids and separating families, Biden didn’t exactly end that. And Roe v. Wade ended under that admin, bc the Supreme Court is rigged and has been. They won’t fix things. “less bad and less obvious” doesn’t really work esp when the bar continually falls lower

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

what you’re describing here is incrementalism, a theory that’s fundamentally incompatible with political ideologies any further-left than milquetoast liberalism look at how much backtracking has occurred in terms of political progress even just from the end of the Obama era until now. that’s roughly a decade. how many decades are you content to spend chanting “the country reforms slowly” while things keep getting worse? climate change says the clock is ticking

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 8w

“single issue voting”, and that “single issue” is genocide and the military budget and immigration and healthcare and trans rights and sex trafficking and privacy laws and-

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Anonymous 8w

What. No, what? Can you read? You can dislike Harris, whatever, that’s your opinion. I take issue with this bait-ass ticket being two women of color, because Newsome is right fucking there.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

*Newsom, sorry. Also, he’s pulled a Bill Clinton and it’s coming to light. So that might be worth talking about.

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Anonymous 8w

How privileged do you have to be to think like this? Like, seriously, do you live in a bunker or something where ICE (which Trump has made into a private army, unprecedented in the US but precedented in Germany) can’t get to you? Where the uptick in anti-trans violence doesn’t affect you? “Both parties are the same” shut up. You do not live in reality if you think like that.

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Anonymous 8w

Does no one remember Harris’s 2020 stuff? Like, she ran on a Green New Deal platform for fucks same. The Biden Administration wasn’t interested in doing that, and Harris couldn’t do anything about that because the Vice President has basically no power.

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Anonymous 8w

What? That doesn’t disprove my statement.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 8w

Part of the reason Kamala lost the election was cus people didn’t vote for her or didn’t vote at all meaning Trump won by majority cus his voter showed up. The blood of those killed is partially on your hands. This could have been avoided, I don’t even like Kamala but she was the lesser of the two evils

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

AOC does real work for real people, Harris I can do without forever. AOC has declared war on data centers and where I'm living someone needs to pay attention. You have no idea how money is controlling the decisions as to where they're built or how large they are. If you don't understand please spend time in an area where a center is miles long; sit and listen to the fucking sound and investigate the water depletion and pollution. AOC gives a shit and works her ass off. Pay attention.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

No one is shrugging. Not one person I know and in fact, we are tuned in and taking notes.

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 8w

lol if you say so

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Anonymous replying to -> #14 8w

The DNC chair needs to be removed immediately before this process actually begins. The party is two million dollars in debt. If I didn't have to vote for a Dem, I wouldn't but here we are. David Hoag needs to step into leadership position now, Right now. Listen to Pod Save America with the clown in charge rn - fucking idiot.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 8w

In what way?

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 8w

You sound like a congressional intern campaigning for her lol.

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 8w

Yeah that’s the part that baffles me the most. Like, not liking Harris I get, she’s not great. But AOC? Famously hated by the establishment, mentee of Bernie Sanders, that AOC? That’s what tipped me off that this was bait. It’s two non-white women, one of whom will piss people off because they’re complete opposite ends of the party. If the forum is leftist, Harris will, if the forum isn’t, AOC will.

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 8w

Fuck Hoag. The DNC had a chance to do so much during the Biden administration that they just didn’t (fuck Garland and the DoJ too)

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Anonymous replying to -> #17 8w

i don’t understand why you felt the need to end half of your comments with insults 😭 as though that helps get the point across

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

she won't be elected. i want a democrat lightyears more than a republican, but we will lose if we try to use women of color as our candidates. it sucks and it's racist and it's misogynist, but even with her appealing to republican values the whole election, they wouldn't accept her. we need someone that the people who "don't do politics" would vote for

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 8w

I will be happy to not vote for a pro genocide candidate.

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 8w

Period

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 8w

A refusal to vote is a vote for the winner. You have to compromise in a democracy, especially a republic. No one who “votes blue no matter who” is happy about this state of affairs. But voting blue is better than not voting. Go to protests, strike, boycott, do all of that! But at the ballot box, remember that not all evil is equal.

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 8w

Then go out there and change shit instead of bitching in queer forums.

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

believe it or not you can do both

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

Is the change in the room with us? Cus shit isn’t changing

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

I am not refusing to vote. I vote third party. And friendly reminder, even if every person who voted third party (including right wing third parties) voted Democrat, Trump still would have won the last election cycle. Don’t let establishment Dems make third party voters the enemy to distract you from their failings and shortcomings

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 8w

Voting third party IS refusing to vote. Russian asset Jill Stein is not an actual option, just extra ink on your ballot. You say that establishment dems make third party voters out to be the enemy? Don’t make me laugh. This shit is why some people think of you as the enemy. I prefer to think of you as well-meaning but naive.

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Anonymous 8w

Why didn’t we… do you not remember that there WASNT A PRIMARY? Do you not remember how THERE WAS NO PRO-GAZA CANDIDATE? I mind genocide, I’m just not in the business of saying “three genocides (Sudan, trans Americans, and Gaza) are preferable to one (Gaza)” They felt comfortable running Biden and Harris because they’re obsessed with the idea of reasoning with republicans, plain and simple.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

Never said I voted for Jill either. She’s a grifter at best. You think I’m destroying the country while actively maintaining its a moral failure to not keep the very people insuring the systems keeping oppression alive in every capacity in office. What a joke. But yeah, I’m naive for simply not putting up with it anymore. Be the change you want to see. Can’t vote for establishment bullshit and expect change. Einstein defined that as insanity

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Anonymous 8w

No, republicans are responsible for this state of affairs. I voted for the candidate that was pro-less genocide. Better than doing nothing, unambiguously. Call me a utilitarian if you want, but I don’t think that you can argue that allowing Trump to come to power is better than doing the one step with no caveats that makes that harder.

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Anonymous 8w

I was talking about USAID in regards to Sudan. Because you know, the organization fed people in Sudan who were suffering from the artificial famine. And WHERE DID HARRIS SAY THAT. When? No one has provided a source for that.

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Anonymous 8w

Do you just not understand anything? Third party candidates aren’t real candidates. You threw away your vote because you’d rather not face reality.

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Anonymous 8w

And again, THERE WAS NO PRIMARY!!! The majority of NOBODY picked Harris. Not even the DNC really, they just had to go with her because campaign funds were under the Biden-Harris name

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 8w

I agree with you 100 percent. They choose nobody so the hateful filled conservative trumpies win bc they will always pick Trump and not waste their vote trying to pick the perfect candidate who never even lied as a child. Stg they are so useless. They have no right to complain about Trump if they are the reason he was allowed in office bc they didn’t vote for the democrat against him

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

They are real candidates. You just aren’t willing to support them because you fell for establishment propaganda to keep them in power. If you stopped telling people their vote didn’t matter if they voted third party imagine how many more would vote that way. If you supported them as valiantly as you supported democrats, financially too. It’s only unviable because you believe it to be. And you believe it to be because the top one percent that prefers blue to red told you so

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Anonymous 8w

NO, THATS STUPID. WE QUITE LITERALLY VOTED FOR NON-HITLER. That’s the WHOLE FUCKING POINT

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Anonymous replying to -> #19 8w

No they aren’t! What fantasy land are you living in where a third party candidate has a shot at the presidency? I’m sorry for living in reality??

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

The one where blue maga finally realized upholding oppression wasn’t a valid option anymore. Which you’re right is a fantasy land y’all are morons lol

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Anonymous 8w

Where the hell are you getting that second part from?!? YES, the US is complicit in a genocide in Palestine. I didn’t vote for that, NO ONE DID. I voted for the candidate that CALLED FOR A CEASEFIRE, the candidate that WASNT BRAGGING ABOUT HOW HE WANTED TO BULLDOZE THE GAZA STRIP AND REPLACE IT WITH A TRUMP RESORT. How many more Gazans would be alive today if Trump didnt win, and thus escalate the genocide? We’ll never know. We’ll never know how many could have been saved:

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Anonymous 8w

HARRIS. Was not. PRESIDENT. She didn’t have any say in any of that.

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Anonymous 8w

Yeah. Politician lies to journalist. I’ve lived in the Trump administration. Fr yall forget want her platforms in 2020 were. You have an image of Harris as someone who’s super centrist, when the reality is that she didn’t have any time during her 2024 run to set herself apart from Biden because HE DIDNT DROP OUT UNTIL SUPER FUCKING LATE

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Anonymous 8w

And if you can so readily find sources, please, source your claims about her statements on “trans people cost me the election.”

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Anonymous 8w

A “western liberal” in the colonial era is not the same as a modern “liberal” (our current era is “postcolonial” but that’s dumb because we obviously still live under colonialism, but that’s the terminology so I have to use it). Like, in that context a “liberal” is Hobbes or Locke, or maybe a French revolutionary (pre-Napoleonic era).

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

And like, I’m not refuting “colonialism bad,” or even necessarily “colonialism worse than holocaust.” But these are not the same ideologies you’re talking about.

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Anonymous 8w

4 years ago, when that article was published, she was biden’s VP, reading Biden’s words. She didn’t pledge it, the US executive branch did. That’s kind of a big distinction when foreign policy changes year by year.

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Anonymous replying to -> #20 8w

Hey heads up, you might want to turn your dms off. They don’t take kindly to this kind of analysis

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

THANK you.

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

It goes without saying that both the parties fucking suck. A pro isreal group in the U.S. funds all major candidates from both parties to ensure that politicians will support isreal if/when that group needs them to, even and especially if isreal’s committing massive human rights violations that no one in their right mind would be ok with. This IS a problem. It should also go without saying that if both parties do this and we don’t have a viable 3rd party system, not voting doesn’t fix it

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

Some people are not electoralists tho and that means they are operating on a completely different logic

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

Stay silent and don’t criticize anything, got it

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

Idk maybe I’m not seeing the whole picture here, but i feel like, seeing as this is the way we operate right now, people should do whatever they can to damage control and push us towards a better future, including but not limited to voting? Like, there are not enough people right now to completely reform our electoral system and even if they were, they haven’t done it yet, so we should use this one to create change until they do

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

tbf I really don’t think anyone abstaining from voting is doing so with the belief that their choice is gonna fix anything, much less the whole system when people say “I refuse to support Harris” I don’t hear “… and that’s my solution!”, it sounds like fear & dismay rather than anything triumphant

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

You’re seeing the whole picture, don’t worry. You can’t put pressure on a party in a two-party system by not voting. You have to do it through collective organizing.

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

Go out there and do something. Cus all I see is a lot of lip service

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

like, we’re taught that under a democracy, voting is how we “use our voice” right? so in that capacity, though I understand what you’re saying, I still think there’s a solid logic behind not voting for a candidate whose policy stances fail to represent your interests in many or all departments. each vote communicates to a politician that the choices they present to the public have someone’s approval / backing—low voter turnout does send a message

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

Cus the people who vote are at least trying to create change. All you are doing is bitching and moaning and not doing anything to improve the situation

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

People who are against electoralism don’t always want reform. They at least want substantial overhaul. They see our path as pretty inevitable unless bigger things change. Voting becomes pointless because the people who control both parties win regardless of the outcome. The underlying social politics which have been crafted by the parties as well as extragovernmental orgs and businesses over decades have produced where we are and we won’t change course unless we move away from that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

Great book. Studied it cover to cover for my undergrad capstone

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

I suppose I can see that logic, but it feels like atp you’re not even trying anymore, unless you’re putting in the work to create that substantial overhaul. Like at that point, you’re prioritizing feeling morally superior for not “supporting” anything bad, not whether you’re facilitating anything good. Even if someone is trying to create that overhaul, I stand by that it hasn’t happened yet and while we don’t have much power, we have some, and not using that is making us more helpless

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

Thanks for explaining it, I appreciate that :)

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Anonymous replying to -> #21 8w

No probby :3

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

do you think voting is the only way to create change? and that there aren’t people working hard for change outside of their vote?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 8w

literally just look up her personal allegiance to israel please it’s so easy

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

Do you believe that just complaining on yikyak is doing anything?

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

This forum isn’t even about politics, why tf was it even posted here

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

Use every avenue available to induce change. Voting is not to be disregarded

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

This post is bait, that’s why. Setting aside all the actual politics, it’s clearly bait. You can report it as off-topic, enough reports and it should be deleted.

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

why do you assume that no one on yikyak does things outside of it lol. i’ve been working with the biggest mutual aid org in my city for years and work with the dsa. doesn’t mean i don’t bitch about kamala’s love of israel on the side

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

Does not answer my question

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

yikyak is literally made for shit talking and complaining, idk what you expect. clearly there are a lot of people in this thread that don’t know about kamala being heavily funded by pro-israel lobbies so i’d hope some of you care enough to internalize that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

I expected people not not post about politics in the queer forums lmao. Also I straight up said I didn’t like Kamala so I don’t know what your talking as though I 100 percent support her

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

and i don’t know why you’re assuming no one on tiktok helps to make change. seems we’re at an impasse

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

We are not talking about TikTok

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

auto correct. you know what i meant lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #16 8w

You know zilch about me other than the fact I laid criticism. And your first choice is the attack character of someone you don’t even know lol. For all I know you could be doing absolutely nothing. Voting is the lowest effort way to affect anything. Congrats on being a drop in the bucket lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

*to

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

They’re just a troll, pay no mind

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

genuinely like pretending voting is a super important way to make change is kind of silly. i vote but it’s honestly just like a “eh i get off work to do it” thing. real change is made in your direct community. mutual aid and feeding your hungry neighbors is so much more important than voting rn lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 8w

unrelated not i’ve been reading a book about marsha p johnson’s life and it references the p standing for “pay it no mind” a lot, so ur comment reminded me of that

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Anonymous 8w

no because that has never been an option?

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Anonymous 8w

i prefer kropotkin personally

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Anonymous 8w

bro i’m dumb actually i forgot it was actually her on the ballot and not biden again in 2024, genuinely a mind slip my bad. no tho

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Anonymous 8w

i would vote for the dem this run tho tbh. the third party votes won’t outnumber the dems or republicans and i live in springfield, oh and so many of my neighbors are being deported rn and while neither will be good and atrocity will happen no matter what, i can’t let my direct community suffer like this

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 8w

im worried people here don’t actually know what kropotkin stood for with how they’re downvoting you and upvoting me lmao

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Anonymous 8w

Not to interject here but how many grads did read a book?!?! I’m concerned now

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Anonymous 8w

oh man i knew it was bad but i just read the stats and that’s wild. i’m 23 and i did have a phase of not reading a whole book from like 14-17 and i was all the dumber for it. it’s like 50/50 w my friends on it they read or not which feels crazy. i know all of the “i can’t focus!” excuses(bc i made them) but like a lot of that literally does have to do with the fact that we are so wired on instant gratification now and whittled down our attention spans ourselves. shit is so grim

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Anonymous replying to -> #23 8w

It is engagement bait! I regret interacting with this incredibly stupid post!

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Anonymous 7w

Oh my god let this stupid thread die.

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Anonymous 7w

lmfao. man, i wish you well. like most marxist-leninists i’ve met, you view things so black and white.

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Anonymous 7w

im gonna vote for the dem since that is what my haitian neighbors(LITERAL neighbors) are begging me to do. i hope you never have your friends ripped from your community as well

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Anonymous 7w

voting third party isn’t radical. i put my community members that are at risk first. there’s no good way to participate in american democracy, good work happens outside it. i vote in the interest of those around me because i know it doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme and there’s no real point in not voting

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Anonymous 7w

idk if you know much about anarchist history or what has been done in the name of marxist leninism lmao

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Anonymous 7w

yeah, nothing is black and white. disregarding a human because they disagree with you and refusing to engage with them is kind of the worst way to get people to agree with you and make change

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Anonymous 7w

not all my neighbors are haitian immigrants losing their rights daily and literally being deported as we speak. you claim to be radical but don’t do anything to help those in your community who are suffering

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Anonymous 7w

i also haven’t called myself radical and any point and i don’t believe myself to be, i think those that do are generally fucking annoying. caring about your fellow man isn’t radical and that is the basis of all of my beliefs

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Anonymous 7w

idk if you understand what nuance is or anything that i’ve said. have a good night man. i hope some day you learn that the point is to unify, not divide.

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Anonymous 7w

look up what’s happening in springfield ohio at least.

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Anonymous 7w

you’re dense man

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Anonymous 7w

she’s not the candidate dude. you’re literally getting mad over a rumored candidate. i didn’t vote for her before and in two years my mind won’t change. you acting like a dick about something i might do in two years isn’t helping your cause

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 7w

might change*** not won’t

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Anonymous 7w

lol not crying, you’re just dense

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Anonymous 7w

i just think it’s dumb you’re so mad over something that isn’t happening and can be prevented from happening. you can waste all your energy getting mad at hypotheticals, but i find energy is better spent trying to convince people to stop those hypotheticals from happening

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Anonymous 7w

yeah summarizing every message into something i didn’t say is so radical and leftist if you. you’re doing real good work towards the revolution

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Anonymous 7w

OH MY GOD SHUT THE FUCK UP. Let this stupid-ass thread die. You fucking idiot.

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