"Don't vote, go to the beach"
Stencil seen in Palermo, Italy
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Okay fine, I'll accept challenges on this, even though you're all deeply self-righteous: yes Biden is responsible for horrible shit, but on the specific issue of harm reduction through electoralism, I will take on any arguments for why it is absolutely immoral to let the greater evil win in the coming election (and yes I literally just acknowledged they're both evil, don't be a fucking child).
So. If you really feel like you can stick it to the democrats by not voting (and thus letting the fascists win) please, give me every last one of your best arguments, and I will respond at length and with citations, as I have time to do so.
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Please look into Claudia De la Cruz! She's a 2024 presidential candidate who wants to improve conditions for working class people and has great ideas for how to make that a reality. If you like her, please help spread her name!
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vote in school board races.
vote in your School board elections!
They are so important.
Most of the candidates for school board on my ballot are people who read in question sessions like candidate A believes that we should never ban books and candidate B beleives that school should notify parents of every single book their child checks out from the school library
Also some School board candidates believe that schools hide children's transgenderism from parents
Please for the sake of access to library materials and safety for trans kids in school vote in your School board elections
Even if you live in a super gerrymandered state where your vote may not matter in your district vote in your School board elections!
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tumblr polls have amplified the human need to vote on things. this place just became the roman senate
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What progress at home has biden enacted? What policies of his show that he is making progress that prove he is actually different than trump?
I like to pretend I have faith in humanity, so I'll answer as if you're asking this in good faith.
Biden's DEA has lifted restrictions on telehealth prescriptions to make appointments and assistance more accessible.
He put a funding package into place to help unhoused people get access to mental and physical healthcare, as well as short-term and long-term housing.
He has attempted and is still attempting to get student debt relief through - this was blocked by Republican judges appointed by Trump, but he's still working on it.
Infrastructure repair - his administration has budgeted funds to actually fix some severely-damaged and frequently-traveled bridges.
Trying to expand access to healthcare to include undocumented immigrants who came to the USA as children (Dreamers) under the Affordable Care Act. Support for Navigator programs and outreach has also been increased.
He has vetoed Republican-led bills that were attempting to overturn environmental protections - one that would have forbidden investment fund managers to consider climate change in their portfolios (I have two degrees in accounting and this is actually huge), and another that would have overturned restrictions on agricultural runoff into our waterways.
He and his administration worked for ages to get rail workers paid sick days.
This is just some of what he's been doing. Meanwhile, Trump and other Republicans want to criminalize the lives of LGBT people like you and me. They want to eliminate no-fault divorce and force births that will kill parents or devastate them financially. They have stated flat out that they want to install a military dictatorship in the USA. They attempted to put that in motion on January 6th, 2021. They failed once. They will do better next time.
One party wants to house the homeless and expand social safety nets, while the other one wants to criminalize homelessness. One of them wants a future in which I might be able to vote to change how much of a war machine my country is, while the other one wants to eliminate my ability to vote entirely. Those are not the same. Those literally are opposites.
At the end of the day, all you and I can do is choose to do the least amount of harm possible. You and I cannot choose to do no harm. This is the USA, we sell war, you and I cannot choose to do no harm. I wish we could, my god do I wish we could, but that is not an option. So we grieve for the harm we couldn't eliminate and work to minimize the harm that is done. Despite all the crap they support, Democrats are the minimum amount of harm right now. Acting like they aren't is exactly what brought us to an election where our options are a future where we are either wading in blood or drowning in it.
Not voting for Biden will not help Palestine. Not voting for Biden will guarantee a Republican president who will make the situation in Palestine WORSE. AND it'll hurt a lot of other places as well, both at home and abroad, because Republicans are about business and the USA is in the business of war! And I would very much like that to change someday! I would very much like to someday be able to choose to do no harm! And I know what I have to do to try for that future, so what are YOU going to do? There is no standing off to the side in this. If you aren't helping pull, you're the dead weight we're pulling. Are you going to dig your feet into the mud and blood and drown us there? Or are you going to get the fuck off your ass, grit your teeth, and help us pull free?
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