Great video but I really can’t agree with this protest pushing abstinence from voting on the upcoming election. I get that the current administration is enabling this, but the vote for the American president encompasses so much more than international strife. I wish we could separate that notion because it feels like a it’s been driven by foreign influence to sway the election. We cannot allow another Trump term. Cannot. If you think a protest for Palestine today is going to impact the presidential election as a “lesson” to your fellow Americans then the next protest against the policies of Project 2025 and Trump, will end up overshadowing all that you’re protesting now and the genocide will continue. Project 2025 will destroy America and anything left of Palestine. Yes war needs to stop, but voting for the lesser of two evils is all we get now. There will be not reckoning event for Democrats, they just need to claw back enough power to hold the legislative and keep it from the GOP while also making considerable changes to their own power structures within their party.

I didn't see any lyrics in the song that prompted not voting. He says in the song that he's not voting for Biden. That's not the same thing as not voting.

Everyone should vote for who they want to lead/represent them.

Should biden not win, who do you think win?

The person with the most electoral votes.

And who do you think that would be?

Since you seem to lack the intelligence needed, I’ll enlighten you! It’s Trump! He will win because Democrats would rather lose than run a viable centrist candidate.

But that’s weird, I could have sworn all you blue MAGAts promised the exact same thing in 2019. Our democracy is at stake, we must vote Blue no matter who to stop fascism.

That’s weird, I could have sworn the same thing happened in 2008 and 2012 as well. I had so much {{{hope}}} but all that happened was a retail debt fueled spending spree and no healthcare. Oh right, the banking industry must have been punished for that, surely? They didn’t just shift the bubble to permanent debt like student loan backed securities and securities fraud?

Damn they said that in 1992 and we got Glass-Steagall repealed. But look we ran a federal surplus, hooray all is well!

It’s so strange, I keep holding my nose and voting blue no matter who but the US keeps getting more right wing and capitalists keep consolidating power.

Can you explain why this time will be totally different? After all, according to your logic, if a vote for not-Biden is a vote for Trump just like you say, then a vote for Biden must be a vote for Trump as well?

I mean, we voted blue so there should be plenty of examples of Democrats taking material action to reject fascism and the wholesale plunder of the working class by capitalists, right?

The blues will fight back this time, right?

All i have to say is ‘project 2025’. That should be pretty simple.

But continue if you must.

If it’s so much more dangerous this time around why wouldn’t they offer up multiple qualified candidates instead of putting all their eggs in one basket? It seems like either you’re wrong or they are.

When a fascist says who they are, you should believe them.

But go ahead and keep your head in the ground.

I have no doubt they fully intend to enact their vision of world domination, my point and the other person above is that democrats entire strategy is to do things they want convienient for them while they improve their lives at the expense of ours while offering up breadcrumbs and espouting that they aren’t the worst option. They could legislate changes for a fair election or ranked choice voting, but they don’t want change and they don’t care about you; they treat this like a game of good oligarch bad oligarch.

If you want to get out of this rut you need to change course, and by design you will always be on the verge of the next project 2025. If you want to analogize my actions to keeping my head in the ground I would offer that you are on merry-go-round desperately trying to steer for the right course without realizing you have no agency while on the ride.

Bottom line Plastic_Ramses is I’m tired of this shit, and I don’t want to get off this stupid ride.

Enabling a fascist will not allow you to get off the ride.

Other than let’s keep doing the same thing I’m open to your suggestions.

Im sure as shit not going to choose the “lets get the fascist into power”, only a complete dumbass would do that.

But who decided that’s the only choice?

Its not the only choice, youve just decided youre going home and youre trying to take the ball.

So by voting for a candidate other than Biden or Trump I’m taking my ball and going home?

“There arent any leftists candidates for president. I know what will help! I’ll elect a fascist!”

This is you, you sound like this.