I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you convinced two thirds of the people who would otherwise have voted for Biden to vote for your chosen candidate instead, Trump would still win because half the country voted for him and your guy only got a third. If you vote third party you might as well stay home.
Not voting isn't going to stop the genocide in Gaza. The US will continue to funnel them arms no matter which candidate wins this November. Trump practically campaigns on how much he hates the Jews and he's publicly told Israel to "finish up their war". He'll also make life a living hell for anyone who isn't a straight cisgender male back here at home.
A vote for a candidate is not an endorsement of them or their policies, it's a statement that you like their policies more than the other guy's, and "sticking it to liberals" and "refusing to support genocide" (that's not what voting for Biden is doing, by the way -- a vote for either candidate is a vote for genocide and a vote for neither is an endorsement of both) is not more important than keeping the furthest right politician America has ever seen out of office.
How incredibly privileged do you have to be to see an entire national election as what will happen in the Middle East and ignore Trump's campaign promises to wipe transgender Americans off the map, and further, to not realize that the same thing will happen in the Middle East regardless of which candidate wins?
I hate Biden as much as every other leftist here. But I'll still vote for him because Trump is worse. If there's a single bone in your body that cares about the lives of your trans friends you will too.
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It's like that old poem:
First they came for the immigrants.
So I also went after the immigrants, because the other side was going to go after them worse
Then they came for the Palestinians.
So I also went after the Palestinians because the other side would've gone after the Palestinians even worse...
May I screenshot and reshare this? I'll blot out your name.
Lol go for it
As an immigrant, I'm terrified of Trump being president again
As a trans person, same. I will personally be much, much safer if Dems win in November
It's not "just one thing"
One of those things is making a straight up genocide possible
If we're not actively trying to get him to change course now while he's the sitting president, then I scarcely see the point in voting in November. If we're going to tolerate a genocide and the myth of a "border crisis" to extend the arm of fascism. If we're not willing to speak up now, then that means we're not willing to stand for LGBTQIA+ people either. And make no mistake about it: Biden is not an ally.
I'm not saying don't vote, but I'm saying now is the time to pressure him to change course. He's not going to do so on his own. He's less moral than the worst serial killer, to put it into perspective.
What do you think shapes the policy of the Democrats, their morals, or their material goals? Do you think politicians are just "good" and "bad" people who can be swayed by a good conversation, at large, or do you believe policy is dictated by material realities?
How do you wish to get meaningful change?