• Stillhart@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Pretty sure I’ve heard this every election since Trump got elected. Though, admittedly, not from a noted gorilla scientist.

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          10 months ago

          The partial imperfect one that a big chunk of Americans vote in between last week and November.

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              10 months ago

              There are sometimes local races with only one candidate, but most races have more than one. Doesn’t mean that they’re all decent choices. But people can and do vote as they choose.

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                10 months ago

                Great, I was worried I had to vote for Genocide Joe Biden, but instead I’ll vote for someone I want to vote for.

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                  10 months ago

                  And the consequences of a lot people doing that is that we will end up with Trump ending democracy and leaving us with a fascist state and no more meaningful elections

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                    10 months ago

                    That’s what you’ve said for every election of my life, and I’m not young. It’s starting to wear thin, especially now that you’re trying to do it for someone who literally already was president. If what you say is true, then we already became a fascist state with no meaningful elections in 2016, so I won’t bother to vote at all.

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        10 months ago

        Exactly. This sounds eerily similar to Bush v Gore. Trump is more distasteful than Bush, but at least he didn’t get us into multiple “forever” wars. And Biden doesn’t seem to care much about green policy, at least not compared to Gore.

        I’m not voting for Trump, just wanted to agree that the argumentation sounds very similar.