• LordR@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      Reason number 1: You don’t want to live in a hellish dictatorship.

      You have two options here: vote for an old guy who did some good stuff or actively or passively vote for fascism.

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        Yeah, but he’s old, and he’s not the purity pony that I wanted!!!

        So…both sides are just as bad! Let it burn!

        /s

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          Then vote for people who think the same or if you live in a state that allows the population to introduce laws start that process.

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          You do realise that if more people would have voted for democrats, student loan loan forgivness would have been granted?

          But yeah, a society without any social safety net, without rights for minorities, with a stupid state religion and 1000 other horrible things is just as bad as people who in the best case change things and worst case don’t make the US worse.

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            if more people would have voted for democrats, student loan loan forgivness would have been granted

            you can’t prove that.

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              No I can’t. But you can’t prove that they wouldn’t either.

              With more democrats DC could be a state for example (Biden approves of that), abortian access could be written in law and student loans could be partially forgiven.
              But unless you vote, we will never know.

              What I know is that Biden DID something about student loans though. For example there is a new repayment plan that does not allow any interest and therefore allows to actually pay off your student loans.
              But yeah, that’s probably norhing acording to you.

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            You do realise that if more people would have voted for democrats, student loan loan forgivness would have been granted?

            Oh come on. They would do what they always fucking do. They’d find just enough no votes.

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              Then vote them out in the next primaries or unionize and strike. You have more power than you think.

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            Shit, if more people voted in the primaries Bernie would have had a stronger hand to negotiate policy if not having been the nominee either time.

            But these fucksticks have the gall to wonder why people who aren’t them are not voting the way they would for them.

            Millennials and Gen Z could be dominating the primary process and yet underperform their share of the overall population, let alone the share they could easily take up in the democratic party if they didn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming to mark some squares on a ballot.

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          It will be so much worse under fascism. You might not be wild about Biden but if the alternative is fascism…when you say let it burn, that means a lot - and I mean a lot - of people will be harmed, most likely including you.

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              Ever heard of Hitler or Mussolini? You should read up on them and then consider your words again.

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                  Oh boy! What kind of stuff did you take to think that Biden is comparable to a treacherous mass-murderer with a god complex?

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          Not getting student loan relief is a maintaining of the status quo, not a “hellish dictatorship”. In fact, having the Congress and Courts strike down student loan relief is the POLAR OPPOSITE of a dictatorship.

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              A lot of it isn’t what people are smart enough to do, lots of people get tricked into loans they can’t pay back.

              When our kid went to college, 3 separate schools wanted us taking out loans of $56,000 a year… $224,000 for a 4 year degree…

              We told them “Yeah, no…” and enrolled him at a state school for $10K a year, where he had a $5k per year scholarship. I paid the remaining $5K cash.

              But I could see other parents, after getting 3 schools telling them the same oddly specific number “Well, I guess that’s what school costs!”

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      Attitudes like this honestly piss me off more than conservatives. You didn’t get the options you wanted, so you decided to just give up, take your ball, and go home. Grow the hell up. We don’t quit just because shit looks bleak, we keep on pushing until we can see the sun poking through the clouds, because that is the only way we will ever see it. If we give in to despair now, we will never get there. Even if it seems pointless, or like things aren’t getting better, I can guarantee you it can always, ALWAYS be worse. And THAT is your reason to vote.

      I’m sorry if that reason isn’t as optimistic as you were hoping for, but that’s the reality that we live in. And it will never get better if we just bitch about unfairness and bury our heads in the sand. If we want things to get better, we need to make them better. And that starts with you. Please, be better than this. I know you have it in you.

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          Then get everyone you know to vote, join a union, organize, strike in the worst case. Voting is not your only option.

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          And for the people for whom that difference is life and death, your apathy is nothing short of collaboration in their murder.

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            People will die no matter what I choose. They’ll die from failed abortions in Texas or they’ll die from Israeli bombs in Gaza. The world is shit and has gotten worse despite me voting as often as I can.

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              And yet it will get even worse if you don’t, and it will be your fault for not doing so.

              When you have the choice between bad and not as bad, letting bad win puts the responsibility for that on your shoulders.

              You don’t get to call yourself an ally if you don’t commit to the work of harm mitigation.

              If you choose to not even do the minimum amount of work of solidarity, you are the white moderate Dr. King railed about in Birmingham.

              All the frilly talk of supporting the cause with none of the action to back it up. Having to be bullied shamed and yelled at for the soul crushing Herculean task of standing in a line to fill a form out.

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          Grow up and live your life free of internet nonsense like I am.

          Bruh I keep seeing your name pop up multiple times in this thread and you’re always complaining about getting downvoted as if it matters or something.

          You sound insufferable to be around and your comments read like someone who is compulsively online and just figured out how to base their personality around an edgelord DnD character.

          Seriously in one comment someone asked why you’re even here and you responded with “let it burn” or “watch it burn” or some variation of that. Straight up same energy as saying I brood in a dark corner of the tavern lol. Get that 2010 edgelord cringe out of here man. Take your ass to a gym and get out of that nihilistic funk

          The world may have a gun pointed at its head but that don’t mean you need to give it the ammo

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              I live in memes

              Oh no, this isn’t your average everyday cringe, this is… ADVANCED CRINGE!

              lol, you sound like a tool bro, and not even a good one. More like one of those shitty allen wrenches that is tossed in the back of a drawer and is always too small or too large to fit anything.

              Seriously bro, do yourself a favor, disconnect from the computer and hit the gym or find a hobby. This 2010 edgelord stuff is hilarious if you’re a troll. But kinda sad if you’re not trolling

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      In this case, it’s not about either choice making your life better, it’s about one choice actively making your life worse vs. Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” Biden.

      Under Trump, the US will become a failed state:

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/30/trump-interview-jail-political-opponents-glenn-beck

      https://thewire.in/world/america-is-on-the-brink-of-another-civil-war-this-one-fuelled-by-donald-trump

      When did the Democrats become the status quo party? 🤔

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          If you think any third party has a shot when the Democratic party and the Republican party control the debate schedule, you have no business calling anyone else a child.

          The next Predident will be from one of the two major parties, so will the one after that… and after that.

          Voting for a 3rd party who gets between 1 and 5% of the vote will not change that, any more than writing in a candidate will. All you will do is throw away your vote.