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Americans of Lemmy, what is your approach to next year's election? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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2020 was... truly unique. It was so hard to stay away from doom scrolling, and I (and many others) were pretty disillusioned by the sad fact that so much of our country legitimately supported the Orange Man. I didn't get a wink of sleep the night of the election because I genuinely considered it to be a make or break decision for America.

My point is that looking back on it, in the end the only real difference I made was at the ballet box. This year I'm going for the Head-in-the-Sand approach. I'm done with the political memes. Done with the Twitter screenshots. It just riles me up and this year I'm gonna do my best to fight that.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

the boring corporatists are fully backing a genocide rn

not really seeing how that doesn't qualify as 100% concentrated evil

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they're saying that the not-hard-choice is to abstain

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

think-about-it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every single US president has backed Israel. Trump was the one that actually moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

"Every president has backed this genocidal state. Why try to stop the trend now?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Backing genocide and not telling Israel to stop bombing, as even Republican presidents like Reagan have done, takes Biden from 'the lesser of two evils' to just evil. I won't support genocide.

I won't be shamed for not supporting genocide either. That's on the Democratic party and Biden.