Harris has me profoundly optimistic. She’s the most qualified candidate I’ll have had the chance to vote for in my lifetime.
Walz is fine, I was keen on Buttigieg but I’ll happily vote for Walz and let Buttigieg keep his important current position.
My biggest hope is that Kamala will draw out some of the less extreme right leaning women, nobody needs to know that they’re voting for the better candidate and God knows women need allies with the ongoing barrage.
This election cycle is not about fear for me, Harris is an easy candidate to vote for!
Same here. I wish Buttigieg were in the running. The man is intensely smart and passionate.
lol no offense you sound like her hype man.
Why would you ask the question if someone who’s going to be enthusiastic about their answer is going to be confusing to you
IDK if you’ve noticed but a lot of people are excited about Harris, although maybe that’s just happiness because it’s not the guy who might have a sundown moment on stage or something
I was always going to vote against Trump, no matter who the other candidate was. I’m glad it’s Kamala, though. I think most people on Lemmy see the danger and made their decision long ago. Blue, no matter who.
Can I quote you on blue no matter who?
Just FYI downvotes are because blue no matter who is already a well known phrase
Did not know that. First time I saw it. Thanks for educating me…no sarcasm.
Sure, but Blue No Matter Who started during the 2016 Democratic primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders supporters. It encourages Democrats to come together and support the nominee in the general election, no matter who they backed in the primary. I use it to highlight the importance of coming together to stand against Republicans.
I feel it should be “Lemmies” because we never, ever, pluralize with an apostrophe.
Also can’t vote for either but I have too much compassion for America to ever vote for Mr Trump anyway.
I’m voting PSL because my vote has no impact on the election anyways
It’s like walking around with a tattoo on your forehead that says “I’M A FUCKING IDIOT”
Why do people say that? I just picked a server to join because I thought it didn’t matter. Are servers really that cliquey?
It’s mostly people who are used to leftists getting banned off their corporate-owned media sites being shocked at an alternative opinion
Well none of the people here are from corporate -owned sites since we’re all on Lemmy. Your world view aligns perfectly with authoritarian-right. That’s why you get so much pushback.
Your world view aligns perfectly with authoritarian-right
lmao your powers of perception need work
Seems pretty spot on. What’s your view on Putin?
I’m really not a fan and it’s embarrassing every time Russia does some cringe culture war shit. America won the cold war so it’s what we’re stuck with, sadly
Yes, they are really cliquey & tbh it’s kinda sad. So much for tryna foster community or engage with other communities to learn something new.
lemmy.ml in particular is quite bad. lemmy.world is a little less bad but still has some annoyances. Most of the other ones are fine.
Of course you can participate in communities anywhere from any server; about the only thing that will impact you is reputational impacts and maybe the occasional instance block or admin fuckery. I have heard rumors of admin fuckery on lemmy.ml (moderation actions and then editing the modlog to make it look like it didn’t happen), but IDK whether that is accurate.
Very
Eventually they will grow up and learn, if they ever get tired of being angry and irrelevant.
I’ve been getting told I’m going to grow out of being a communist for over 2 decades now. Any day now I guess
I mean people also say you’ll grow up from being a liberal so lol. I presume it has a lot to do with why you have a particular political position and if you’ve actually thought it out at all.
Communism will never come to the USA. You should probably have realized that by now.
You don’t have to stop, but you’re also politically irrelevant. I’d get tired of that myself. I did. That’s why I stopped throwing my vote away on third party. But you do you. I really don’t care since you’re a non-participant.
I’m already politically irrelevant, how is changing my vote going to make it suddenly matter in a non-swing state
Look, where you can actually achieve things is in the Democratic primaries. Find the furthest left person you can and try to make them the candidate. Move the party left. Get your brand of politician onto the ballot on one of the teams that can win. Replicate that across the country and I guess the Democrats become communists, though I can’t imagine things flipping that far. You still have to deal with swing states that will be much harder to get communist candidates elected even in a major party.
That’s the only realistic way to accomplish your goal without either waiting for one party to commit suicide or futilely taking up arms to try to replace the whole system of government.
That’s not even my political persuasion, but look I’ll be long dead before that ever happens so more power to you. We’ve swung way too far right and I’ll work with anyone to swing it back the other way.
I have plenty of critiques of PSL running primarily national election campaigns, the whole national level election just seems like a resource sink. I guess if they get to a certain percent they get federal money for it.
The problem is a lot of local politics are already very much on lockdown by realtor/home construction/lawyer types. They will often get unquestionably voted in by homeowners, simply by evoking the fear of housing prices going down, or taxes going up. Homeowners are often vastly over-represented in terms of voter participation, due to structural disenfranchisement of poor people.
Most people who you could organize in a given municipality who aren’t homeowners will be under constant economic pressure to follow work or new housing, leading to a lot of churn - and often leading to people just getting unenrolled because they didn’t update their address when they changed landlords.
(Honestly this is why I prefer to just work on non-election stuff with my time)
oh no I’m using instance that makes nerds seethe whatever will I do
I feel the same way reading a lot of lemmy.world users content
I read somewhere that Biden beat Trump by 40K votes. In a country of over 300 MILLION people that’s a razor thin margin.
Your vote counts!
I also read this sobering fact recently: People in Germany that didn’t think they had to vote in 1932, didn’t get another chance to vote until 1946.
There’s no popular vote, my state is solidly blue, why on earth shouldn’t I vote for people I agree with?
I know you’ve been getting downvotes but just wanted to say thank you for voting PSL!
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I am 100% voting for Kamala in a deep blue state. But, I wanted to point out that it’s not the popular vote that matters, unfortunately, thanks to the electoral college.
Lol all the neckbeards downvoting you as if that has any effect on you to change your mind.
Or they just try to send a message to onlookers. Voting for non-right-wing presidents isn’t acceptable here.
You think people use downvoting to change a person’s mind? I always felt it was mostly to express disapproval or disagreement.
In this case, I think it’s shallow/selfish thinking that leads people to not vote or throw their vote away with a third party vote just so they can smugly say "don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for Harris/Trump 😏" like it’s the most clever thing ever.
As a POC, I can’t help but shake at folks like this because it’s like they’d rather play these little games when shit gets real rather than ya know, getting real.
I think it’s shallow/selfish thinking that leads people to not vote or throw their vote away with a third party vote just so they can smugly say "don’t blame me, I didn’t vote for Harris/Trump 😏
You’re welcome to think that, How can I throw a vote away that has literally no impact on the presidential election? I’m not in a swing state and I still vote downballot- what’s even more annoying is it’s so non-competitive many of the state level democrats are just low-key republicans running as democrats. The result is yet another non-choice of an election.
I only downvote when something is too stupid and pointless to comment on. I don’t do it very often, but here we are.
excuse me for participating in our electoral system
Not voting, because not my candidate.
(for context i dont live in US)
(for context i dont live in US)
The only valid reason to disengage from US politics lol
It being a phony charade is another important one.
… so its treason then? Worst American ever… /s
I will not be voting, except for local candidates. I encourage the capitalist zionist fascists and all their supporters in the DNC and the GOP to go neck rope.
Dementia Don sends his thanks.
I prefer to call him Toddler Tonguing Trump, but you do you.
Walz is the ballz baby
Unchanged. Still gonna vote for her. I’m more enthusiastic now that she picked Walz over some of the other finalists though. I’ll probably buy some campaign stickers now in addition to voting.
Thank you for ending your 2024 campaign, Joe Biden. That was hero shit. That humility and duty to something bigger than himself is exactly what made him so much better as a leader than trump ever could’ve been. Joe has earned his retirement, and there’s a part of me that hopes that he becomes the first former president to die of badass causes, flipping his Vette doing a buck eighty or something lol. But not for another couple decades.
I was going to settle for Biden, but I am excited to vote for Harris.
Ima vote for some sanity, so its Kamala and Walz.
I don’t know anything about the guy. What are his strong points?
He’s good on climate, his kids are via IVF and he’s supported reproductive freedom in his state, he had a cat until old age took it and has a dog, he’s been married to the same woman for 30+years, he’s LGBTQ supportive, he got laws passed so MN provides breakfast, lunches, and tampons in schools,
Bruh, I think you’ll find that most of us were gonna vote for the D, no matter what. For the record, I like this choice of veep and Harris has won me over. I immediately felt dejected after the debate and wished that Biden would go away. I wasn’t enthused about Harris, but I figured we have no choice but to risk it. Biden did us right in the end. And Harris has been impressive in her consolidation of support and her organization.
Yeah I was a constant Biden promoter and moderately opposed to replacing him just because I thought that, as big a problem as his age was, the prospect of the Democrats figuring out a plan B without cocking it up was remote enough that it might be better to keep him on.
Having seen the way it happened (so far) I’ve never been so happy to be wrong.
I won’t vote in the US election but I think Walz is quite a solid candidate. If I was a US citizen, I’d vote Democrat but the VP pick wouldn’t really make a difference there.
I’m just happy they didn’t double down and pick the IDF guy.
I feel like the Democratic party is, slowly and gradually as is its nature, learning its fucking lesson. If they went far enough to actually stop supporting genocide, that might be nice.
I am warming to her but her VP pick doesn’t matter to me. I refuse to vote for Trump.
I didn’t really care who she picked to begin with. There are other people who would excite me more, but nothing excites me like the idea of beating Trump and then sending him to prison.
Honest question - what’s the mechanism to do that?
Well, first we beat him at the polls, then we finish all the prosecutions. If we don’t beat him, the prosecutions are going to be moot. The court cases will be dropped.
I understand that, what’s he done specifically that carries a prison sentence? I’m not disagreeing with you, but I’m unaware of a case waiting on a trigger that doesn’t end up in just a fine.
Just saying “she’ll find a reason to lock him up” is a terrible take. That’s what MAGA wants to do to their political opponents. It’s also what people mean when we say ACAB.
Uh, stolen top secret documents and stored them by the shitter at mar-a-fucko?
There’s the Georgia election interference case - I don’t know what the potential penalties there are, but they can only delay that one until after the election. And Jan 6. There is the fraud sentencing in NY which, you are correct will likely not result in prison time since he’s a first time offender (lol).
There are two or three pending cases about fake electors where he is an unindicted co-conspirator which could potentially be amended to include him. Apparently now a potential bribery case if that hasn’t already been completely scuttled.
I mean shit the guy has done a fuck ton of crime. He’s already a felon, which means the kid gloves can come off for future sentencing.
I don’t think any of the cases are a slam dunk victory and then prison, but there are an awful lot of options.
