Asklemmy

43946 readers

614 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

218

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]

429 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Congrats on helping to ensure you'll never again have the right to vote during traitor trump's fascist dictatorship that you'll be enabling.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey I'm voting third party in a deep blue state also, you wanna be wicked condescending to me too? Take that energy to the phone banks, I bet the democrats never tried making a total ass of themselves before.

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

Congrats on saying "genocide is an acceptable price" out loud

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

You act like Republicans don’t have stronger ties to Israel and haven’t discriminated against Muslims. Either you’re naive or acting in bad faith.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OR I simply refuse to endorse any singular candidate who has funded genocide. You can call me whatever you want for having convictions while your lesser evil funds a holocaust

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

Naive. Got it.

Unattended consequences of your actions. Learn it before it’s too late.

Take care.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So are you going to take responsibility for the 11,500 people dead (since October 7th) as the unintended consequences of your actions? You told everyone we needed to vote Biden to protect people in 2020, did he protect them? And I don't want to hear anything about trans people and gay people because there are trans people and gay people in Palestine, or do they not count because they weren't fortunate enough to be born here or born White? I'm naive but you sleep like a baby with your hands covered in blood.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

The largest benefactors of AIPAC and Israel in the house and senate are fucking democrats you dunce.

[–] pohart 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If Trump is one vote from winning NY then he swept the board. There's no way NY goes red in any election that has NY as the tipping point state.