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    Here’s the photos so you don’t have to click the link, my browser blocked about half of that entire webpage.

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    football, over policing, coat hangers because god said so, low wages/ no worker’s rights, inflated food costs, journalists being silenced, voting rights suppressed, lower quality healthcare, genocide, no women’s rights

    go Biden

    really fucking hilarious let the good times roll

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        not a past retirement aged person who has spent their whole careers keeping the citizens in their proper places and who can think past the bible

        so neither Demopublican maybe a third party

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          We all want that, the difference is that we understand how this political system works well enough to know we can’t have it.

          If you’re advocating for overthrowing the government, dropping little internet comments isn’t how one does that thing.

          If you’re actually hoping to elect a third party president simply by helping them get more votes spread out across every district despite them having few to no reps in other branches of the federal government and hardly anyone in local governments, you have an inadequate understanding of the system you’re hoping to affect.

          If, on the other hand, you’re just using rhetorical gambits to discourage progressive voters in the upcoming election, I take back any implication that your comments are pointless or wrong. This is exactly how you’d go about that goal, great job.

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            we understand how this political system works well enough to know we can’t have it

            I will say it:

            FUCK THAT.

            Can’t have healthcare.

            Can’t have social security.

            Can’t have minimum wage.

            Can’t vote for normal people.

            Can’t stop billionaires from taking everything.

            Can’t make anyone responsible.

            Can’t have anything, while understanding that the system is set up for you to fail, and you will defend it because otherwise the system fails.

            The system is failing right now on so many levels. The fascists taking over is the normal progression of the system, and I’m sick and tired of people saying ‘we cant change it, it will hurt more people’.

            Sick and vulnerable people are being held hostage to stop any meaningful change, despite them being fucked even now.

            Same with the retirements being held hostage to stop reforming the stock market.

            And I will say it again:

            FUCK THAT.

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              Putting words in my mouth won’t change the mess we’ve got on our hands. We want those things and we can get them, but not immediately (absent a millions-strong general strike) and not without a fight (another Blair mountain, probably worse).

              I’m not trying to deter you. I’m talking about what’s in our way.

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                that is what my grandfather says

                his grandfather is the one who repeated that line to him

                not repeating that line to my children

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                  And the dipshits on the right listened for the last fifty years and got Roe overturned.

                  Giving up because you aren’t getting exactly what you want right now is how you lose everything.

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              You’re literally having an internet tantrum at this point. We’re all angry, dude. I would LOVE a third party candidate, but this is NOT the election to do that.

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                Sure it is. At the local level. There are a small number of greens in office in city councils and such, but their website shows a roster that is mostly on school boards and small committees. This is not a party that is ready for the big time. The fact that Stein keeps running for president rather than building from the ground up tells me it’s currently just an operation that turns well meaning dollars into a perpetual grand gesture. I’d like to see that change.

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                I’m not american, I’m not saying don’t vote Biden. If you can, make sure you do.

                I’m saying I’m just tired of pretending this is going anywhere. It’s not. The climate catastrophe is upon is, billions are going to die, and those who survive will fall to fascists within two decades tops.

                Just the notion that Trump, convicted felon, twice impeached (yet never removed), is a serious contender for the presidency, is absolutely fucked beyond imagination.

                What in the bloody hell did we do wrong to get here? How are we going to correct it? Is there any way to solve just this one issue, out of the pile of other civilization-level threats?

                I’m losing my mind just thinking about it.

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              “The system is broken, doesn’t work for us, and can’t be changed, but don’t you dare do anything differently or else things won’t get better!”

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                It was an angry comment, but how did you read anywhere about not daring to change it?

                Please, for the love of the universe, change it asap.

                I just don’t see any meaningful change that will actually give the help that people need.

                We live in a world that solved almost every issue, yet suffer them anyway. It’s just mad.

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          If you named someone, then someone else might be able to criticize how they don’t think the right way or did something incorrectly once. It’s easier to be against someone than stick your neck out and defend someone.

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                and that is what the next generation will also say in both parties thus perpetuating the cycle of a singular two party authoritative system

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                  How do you think our system works, dude? Nobody here chooses to do it this way for fun. It’s a two party system. It’s rigged to be that way. Not our choice. Any other party aside from the GOP and Democrats is just an illusion. We don’t have a choice here.

                  Really love it when self-proclaimed “experts” think they can criticize us and our country’s politics when they can’t even vote or even know how things actually work here.

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                  Voting third party isn’t a reasonable option when one of the leading candidates is actively dismantling democracy. Voting for Biden is like saying “yes, I’d like to keep having a voice in my government”

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            I mean, does it really matter unless they live in like one of 6 swing states? If you live in a blue or red state (which is most Americans) you should really vote third party, and they shouldn’t be scolded for that.

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              Better to vote strategically. A viable third party will need to be developed in local and state government, start snagging seats in the house, eventually a congressional seat, etc etc. The presidency should really not even be the goal of a credible third party until they have laid the groundwork.

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                Voting Greens in New York state (for example) is a valid option, and if they meet a certain threshold (5%?) they can get campaign financing to do the things you talk about.

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                  Voting for this green party at this time? That’s not strategic at all. You’d be doing the exact opposite of the thing you claim to be doing. This green party is a corrupt shell of what it should be voting for it lets them know that they can continue to doing what they’re doing. Voting for this green party is exactly why we don’t have viable third parties. It’s an entity purposely created to be absurd and to drive away voters. Let it die and get a real party.

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          I tried that twenty years ago, learned that it was a DOA strat that produces zero results and could very well be, in some cases, a grift.

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      Biden has increased government funding for low-income defendants, provided funding for independent media, increased wages, supported labor unions, railed against private companies for raising grocery prices, which have since come down, is prosecuting election interference currently with great success, and provided wider access and more funds for healthcare

      You managed to choose pretty much every issue that he’s markedly supported and improved

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          Oh yeah lgbtq+ legal funding and civil rights, sustainable technology, Green energy, climate action, there’s tons. My examples in the previous comment are direct refutations of the completely erroneous examples from the delusional comment above.

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        actually an adult who lived to the inevitable outcomes of the laws and policies set by politicians like Biden that were funded by donors like Trump

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          I’ve been posting on message boards for decades. One common thing I’ve seen, which seems incredibly strange and I have no explanation for, is that every time I’ve come across an English poster using some form of vert in their username, they’ve been a huge idiot.

          Granted, it’s only been a handful of times, so kind of anecdotal, but it’s amazing on consistent it is.

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      I get that the other things are important but

      A) he can’t singularly change them B) he can certainly take an hour or two to do something that’s a presidential tradition and more lighthearted.

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        He can at least take a stance and be not only vocal about them, but do whatever he can and make those action public so to set the record straight and throw shade to the bad actors in Washington.

        But that’s OK, football helmet is enough I guess

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      Yes, I choose football Biden over policing, coat hangers because god said so, low wages/ no worker’s rights, inflated food costs, journalists being silenced, voting rights suppressed, lower quality healthcare, genocide, no women’s rights Trump.

      I assume that’s what you meant.