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[kevinkevinson]

the Theyna soccer au no one asked for but everyone realized they needed. Inspired by the USWNT and their World Cup win (x)

[describe-things]

genuine question abt your don’t vote blue post, I’m asking in good faith:

the USA is a 2 party system. most people will vote republican or democrat bc that’s just how it works there. so if Biden doesn’t win then Trump definitely will and he is a Real, Actual Fascist. the Textbook Definition of one. and he’s got the entire republican party to back him up. like, just as examples, look up project 2025 and its policies. if Trump & the republicans win, what happens then?

again, I’m purely asking this out of confusion, I’m still forming my opinion on this and trying to understand your side, please do feel free to ignore this ask if you want /genuine

Assumedly in reference to this post. (Archived link)

Let's start here:

then Trump definitely will and he is a Real, Actual Fascist. the Textbook Definition of one.

Joe Biden is literally committing genocide right now as you read this response. Think about why you have decided Trump is a "Real Fascist" but the man literally, at this moment, comitting genocide, isn't.

Genocide Joe is literally comitting genocide as we speak. Do you think comitting genocide is only a fascist action when it's happening to privileged white Americans?

If so, how about...the Covid19 crisis? Which Joe Biden has actively allowed to worsen? Lots of Americans, both privileged, white, and not, have died as a direct result of Biden's refusal to protect the public from Covid19 by brushing it all under the rug as soon as he could to pretend it was all Trump's fault.

Genuinely sit and ask yourself why you consider Trump a fascist, but not Biden, even though Biden has been openly and happily comitting genocide against Palestinians for over a year now. Ask yourself why you only think Trump qualifies as a fascist.

if Trump & the republicans win, what happens then?

What's happening right now to everyone who's not a privileged white American?

Biden is committing genocide. He has poured billions into arming Israel. He has purposefully allowed eugenics practices to become normalized and has done nothing to slow or prevent the spread of Covid19, instead choosing the exact same tactic Trump did -- deny, deny, deny. Just like he denies the genocide that Israel is comitting against Palestinians.

Nothing good will be accomplished by voting for Genocide Joe Biden. The only thing that will be accomplished by voting for him is telling every single politician, both current and future, that you are okay with genocide.

You will be telling them all loud and clear that they can do anything they want, kill as many people as they want, commit as many war crimes as they want and be as blatantly fascist as they want, as long as they have a scapegoat on the other team to claim is "worse".

Palestinians are begging people not to reward the man comitting genocide against them. Indigenous people everywhere are begging people not to reward the man comitting genocide against Palestinians. Queer people, disabled people, poor people, every minority you can imagine in both the US and outside of it, is begging you not to reward Genocide Joe for comitting genocide.

Instead of asking what would happen if Trump won, ask yourself what would happen if Biden won.

What do you think will happen if the American public loudly declares for all the world to hear that genocide is perfectly normal and acceptable?

Do you think this'll convince politicians not to commit genocide? Do you think this'll convince politicians to be less fascist? Do you think this'll convince politicians to treat minorities like people with fundamental rights?

Telling politicians that you're going to support them unquestionignly even when they literally commit genocide for all the world to see is not going to do anything to protect you or anyone you care about. The only thing it will accomplish is encouraging politicians to keep playing this game of "well at least I'm not the other guy!" even harder.

You will protect no one by voting for Genocide Joe. Not even the privileged white Americans. The only thing supporting genocide accomplishes is ensuring that the world becomes a worse place for everyone.

Do not vote for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party and then be surprised when they turn on you.

Just because the Democrats and Republicans scream from the rooftops that it's impossible for any other party to win does not mean you need to believe them. Insisting that it's impossible for a third party to win is exactly what prevents third parties from winning. You'll never move forward if you refuse to even try taking a single step.

Trump is going to keep running for President until he dies. And when he dies, there will be another boogeyman in a red hat to take his place. This game of "vote blue no matter who, because the other guy is worse" will go on until this empire falls unless people refuse to keep playing.

You can vote third party. You can protest vote. You do not have to vote for the fascist in the red hat or in the blue hat just because they tell you they're your only options.

You have to choose whether or not you're going to support genocide. Any vote for Joe Biden is explicitly a vote for genocide, and it will go down in history as such. Everyone's actions now will be remembered. You will either be one of the people who voted to continue genocide, or you will be one of the people who did the right thing.

If you consider yourself antifascist, if you consider yourself a good person, if you consider yourself anti-colonialist and anti-racist, then you cannot vote for Genocide Joe. Voting to explicitly endorse genocide, which is what voting for Genocide Joe is, is completely and utterly incompatible with being antifascist.

Trump does not have some mystical quality innate to his soul that makes him "A Real Fascist" while Joe Biden somehow doesn't.

Joe Biden is committing literal genocide right now. He is fascist. And so is everyone who votes for him.

Do the right thing, and do not vote for genocide. Do literally anything else. Do not let this system keep you trapped in a loop of "but the other guy is worse, we promise" forever. Because it will never end.

You have to break the system, because it's fucked beyond repair. It was designed that way from the start.

Anything you're afraid of Trump doing, Biden is already doing and has been since day 1. Ask anyone who's not a privileged white person.

[queerchainsaw]

I'm not American but seeing the rhetoric of voting blue no matter what here on Tumblr and other social media has definitely confirmed for me that liberalism is a disease and that the US is patient zero. These people are so lost in their own shallow bipartisanship they fail to understand that the months before an election are quite literally the only time politicians will "listen" (and using the word "listen" is generous), the only power, and I mean only power, one has in this specific case is to threaten to withhold the vote, but these dumbfucks are like "so you want Trump to win?" No, shitface, I want Trump to drop dead, but right now you're pledging undying support and allegiance to an administration that is overseeing a literal genocide, and it doesn't matter how many times Harris says "we need to stop the suffering" or some other innocuous bulshit, she, as VP, literally signs off on millions of tax dollar every single week that go, you guessed it, to the Zionist Occupation Project (aka "Israel"). I wonder if these blue-magas understand that "Israel" relies almost entirely on US support, they are not a self-sufficient "nation", if the Biden-Harris administration actually threatened to pull all support, Israel would have no other option but to stop the assault on Gaza and the illegal settling of the West Bank because without American Handouts it would cease to exist within a month (assuming European backers like the UK, France etc. tried to keep it afloat, if they also backed out, Israel would vanish in less than a week), but since all that's been happening is empty threats from the UN and the ICJ, Israel keeps on keeping on, because it has the United States' blind support, and with the world's biggest superpower backing your every move, there isn't a security council or international court on this earth that can stop you.

ALSO, it boils my blood when democrats pretend to care about Palestine while treating it as an "issue" within the grand scheme of some election campaign, this is not an issue, this is the issue, has been for the past 75 years, people are dying every day, land is being stolen, a people is being annihilated, their representatives wiped off the face of the earth and their culture bulldozed and misappropriated by colonizers, this is an American project, Zionism is baked into the Modern American Political System, it's something the two-party system has no disagreements about - Republican or Democrat, money will continue to be funneled into the Zionist Occupation. When people are accused of both-side-zing the Presidential Election (as though it's the biggest sin since Eve decided to have a snack) I have to give a big hearty laugh, because these democrats actually think they're denouncing some obscure resurfacing of the horshoe theory when in fact, in the grand scheme of political stances, Democrats and Republicans are basically on the same side of the aisle, they're both right-wing parties, one is just proto-christofascist conservative capitalist monsters and the other is just faux-progressive diehard-liberal (still christofascist) capitalist monsters, obviously nuance is necessary, and the Republican party is objectively worse (it's their whole shtick), and so when the bar is 6 feet below Hell, obviously one is forced to say the Democratic Party is "better", but that, by no means, makes it a good party. Democrats who say "let's elect Harris and then we'll focus on all the problems of the two-party system and the blatant support of genocide" clearly don't understand that by blindly supporting either candidate, the two-party system has won already and so has the Zionist Project. You wanna do better? : fight the system. Agreeing to fall in line with the expectation of "dealing with these things later" is the biggest bulshit cop-out in the history of human mediocrity, if American "Progressives" weren't, by large, so terminally-liberal they might have understood that over the summer they had an unprecedented opportunity to make the two-party system shake in its boots, by turning away from the democrats, but it only took some light fear-mongering from the Biden-Harris administration for liberals to fall in line and forget all about the inherent injustice of a system that regularly and consistently forces you to chose between the lesser of two evils. Wake the fuck up and smell the tyranny that your day-to-day lives are built on.

It is a tragedy in and of itself that the fate of Palestinians and Palestine is largely in the hands of forcefully-uninformed Americans, but it's important to realize that as long as the US keeps dolling out money, weapons and overall resources, the Zionist Occupation has next to no reasons to stop the Genocide, the power rests in the hands of the current administration, and who in the hell do you think puts the power in the hands of any administration if not the people? get wise dumbfucks

[smokey-eyes-and-bright-ties]

Supposedly Republicans are so scary and ushering in a new level of fascism and… Kamala wants to make sure some get on her cabinet. So which is it? We stopping “greater evil” from getting into office or we gonna drop this “saving democracy” charade?

[ketherane-molybdate]

STUPID TANKIES YOU DONT UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR DARTH VADER EVERY TIME OR ELSE EMPEROR PALPATINE IS GONNA TURN OUR GLORIOUS GALACTIC EMPIRE INTO A FASCIST STATE

[ketherane-molybdate]

STUPID TANKIES YOU DONT UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE TO VOTE FOR DARTH VADER EVERY TIME OR ELSE EMPEROR PALPATINE IS GONNA TURN OUR GLORIOUS GALACTIC EMPIRE INTO A FASCIST STATE

[mostlyghostly42]

[slothlifepolitics]

All these blue maga people scream to shut up and vote for genocide Joe would never wear a mask to go vote so immunocompromised people can safely vote. They'd loss their shit if masks were required again, pretending to be traumatized over a mask. "Your vote is important!" Unless you are disabled. Many state supreme courts have ruled it is legal for polling locations to violate the ADA. Polling locations have dangerous ramps, no chairs, no access to water, no public bathrooms. Liberals don't care about voting rights and accessibility they just want to silence criticism. Even in Democrat controlled states Black neighborhoods don't have equal access to polling locations. But white liberals don't care about that. Votes only matter if they come from abled bodied white people. White liberals live in a fantasy land where democrats care about voting access. They'll show long lines in democrat controlled areas and reach to blame Republicans. Then they stop paying attention and would never dream of doing jack shit to fix the problem. They go to brunch, and then in 4 years talk about how important voting is again. If Democrats cared at all about voting they'd still be sending EVERYONE mail in ballots. They only want the "right" people to vote as proven by their response to the Uncommitted campaign.

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[ID: Text that reads, "What do you mean I'm a white supremacist and fascist? All I said was that we should sacrifice Palestinians and other indigenous peoples to protect the feelings of privileged white Americans!". End ID.]

[walks-the-ages]

""A vote for [third party candidate] is a vote for Trump! ""

No, you're just uneducated and spreading disinformation, because its fine and dandy when the democrats do it, apparently~!

Third Party voters did not "lose democrats the election in 2016", because Hilary won the popular vote by some 2,900,000 votes, and the electoral college elected Trump anyways. This is common knowledge you can find a million articles on, but you still find these fucking racist genocide apologists still spouting that "bernie supports lost Hilary the election and got Trump elected >:(" in 2024.

""The electoral college means third party votes are useless!""

The electoral college equally means that a good chunk of America's votes are 'useless' because it only takes a handful of states out of 50 to win an election, even when the actual people's votes say the opposite, but I don't see you telling people their votes are useless when their voting for your favorite genocidaire in blue, now do you?

""This is the election to end all elections! Trump cannot be allowed to win!!!!!""

Trump is going to keep on running until he's dead. This man is going to run for election for the rest of his life. He's always going to be the Democrat's boogeyman, their ace in the hole to get you to elect them into power again and again and then not fulfill any of their promises and in fact, usually do the opposite of what they were elected to do. Remember how Democrats were supposed to defund the police? Yeah, tell that to Joe 'Let's FUND the police!!' Biden.

"People are telling people ~not to vote~ when they say don't vote for Biden!~"

No, you just refuse to actually engage with posts in good faith and fall back on your disinformation campaigns (see the above points). "Man Committing Genocide Right This Moment" and "Man who will also Commit Genocide but while wearing a Red Hat" are not your only choices.

Do you know how many people are running for President?

It's not a choice between two racist, genocidal pieces of shit.

It's actually choice between:

two racist, genocidal pieces of shit (Biden, Trump) ,

an ableist, anti-vaxx millionaire (RFK jr) ,

a Socialist philosopher who focuses on the struggles of race, gender and classes in America (Cornell West),

an established Diplomat and pro-Palestine Activist who wants to defund the military and take big action to solve climate change (Jill Stein)

and a Libertarian Activist (Chase Oliver).

You've got 6 choices in this upcoming election, as much as Democrats will try to convince you otherwise. They want you to believe they're your only hope, because that's how they get their votes: by convincing you that they're your only hope, even as they slide more and more to the right, as they refuse to raise minimum wage, as they refuse to make any change for the better, as they militarize the police and build more pipelines and border walls, even as they commit genocide, they are in your inbox, proclaiming that if only you give them more and more money from your empty bank account, that they're the last line of defense against fascism, while they send more and more USA made bombs and ammunition to slaughter innocents and greenlight coups in other countries and torture people in guantanamo bay and keep Cuba under inhumane conditions and committing fucking godsdamned genocide as we fucking speak and have been since October and long long before then!

Hey, fun fact, did you know?

The United Nations General Assembly has passed a resolution every year since 1992 demanding the end of the US economic embargo on Cuba, with the US and Israel being the only nations to consistently vote against the resolutions.

For the past 32 years, the UN has been trying to get the United States to stop its almost 70-year embargo on this country, and every single year for 32 years straight, the United States and Israel are the only countries to veto it.

Gee, I wonder why that is????

[rostbef]

the "lesser evil" crowd is really dedicated to the "evil" part

[padawan-historian]

When Auntie Zora said "not all my skinfolks are kinfolks," this is your reminder that some skinfolks would rather be pokemon tokens and extraordinary negroes than abandon their neoliberal privileges that destroy our people and planet. Also being LGBTQ+ doesn't equate to being antiracist (which this neoliberal flamingo clearly isn't).

Also, all those people continuing to go into the venue rather than standing in solidarity with these profiled MENA women and saying that they won't attend unless they are rightfully allowed to enter (if the Biden-Harris team is so concerned about bad press from kicking out folks calling for a ceasefire and end to genocide . . . then why not . . . y'know . . . call for a ceasefire?)

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🇵🇸 @thisiskayem This occurred on Saturday's "Get The Vote Out" event in Las Vegas for @kamalaharris @vp.

The two visibly Muslim women RSVP'd for the event, were given wristbands upon checking in, and were standing in line when the Harris campaign officials denied them entry.

They provided screenshots of the the invite, photos wearing the wristbands, and an email of arrival instructions on Twitter.

The masks are coming all the way off.

[rhysofcourse]

yeah you’re “better” than red hat wearing bigots but can you look homeless people in the eyes? can you hold a conversation with people who need your help, who don’t ’seem normal’? do you clutch your purse or wallet tighter when you see them? with people who might’ve not have a conversation with another human being in days or weeks and they see you as someone who might have a heart? are you good to everyone around you, and not just the people who can afford to live in gentrified liberal neighborhoods? are you truly supportive of human welfare and love for everyone, even those who weren’t as fortunate?

[nando161mando]

That boot under Biden must taste amazing

[garthnadermemestash]

Vote shaming worked so well for Hillary Clinton 2016

[fallonturing]

"Sure, what the Fuhrer is doing to the Jews is really bad and we SHOULD try and stop it, but if we don't vote for the NSDAP, who else will protect our rights as German workers? This is just the way things are"

That's how liberals sound.

People like you let the Holocaust happen.

[smokey-eyes-and-bright-ties]

I like how the unspoken threat of establishment Dems around project 2025 is that they won’t fight against any if the components of the plan unless they get what they want this election.