HeavenlyPossumSo if someone wanted to vote for “a society in which snipers are not deployed against student protests,” which candidate should they vote for?
This toot has made some people really angry at me. But no one has been able to provide an answer other than “no one.” So you’d think they’d be more angry about the lack of a candidate who can or would allow people to exercise their most basic rights rather than at me for pointing it out. But hey this is the internet so 🤷♂️
sortius@HeavenlyPossum I try to explain this to people. If voting for either of the major parties in your country yields the same results, maybe stop fucking voting for them, even if you aren't lucky enough to have preferential/proportional/etc voting.
If you're going to "throw your vote away" on nothing changing, might as well do it with a clear fucking conscience and vote for a decent human
ftl@sortius @HeavenlyPossum it definitely isn't "nothing changing". It's probably not this particular thing, though.
@ftl @HeavenlyPossum I dunno, I'm poor, I see governments come and go, my life and that of those around me doesn't change; grinding poverty all the way down
@sortius @HeavenlyPossum Hmm, I see you're in Australia, and I definitely know far too little about electoral politics there to comment! I can agree that whoever wins the US elections probably won't affect you much! Those elections will mostly matter for those of us in the US...
(I suppose maybe they'll have a little effect on you, based on how much/little they do about climate change, but that's a pretty indirect effect)
@ftl @HeavenlyPossum well, I fully understand US politics, and the international ramifications for what's going on in the US (it's much bigger than climate change).
Jon Stewart spelled it out perfectly for Democrats, but they didn't want to listen, and shot the messenger. It's not up to voters to come up with reasons to vote for Biden.
He has already proven he's next to useless as a president, and Democrats have lain the groundwork for a fascist takeover of the US govt; it's too late to fix