[labelleizzy]

[thevioletjones]

Listen, the DNC fucking nailed that convention so hard, I'm positive we're gonna win.

The party platform they laid out is immaculate. The stark contrast in messaging from that of the party of loveless, bigoted, weirdo, grifter, ghouls couldn't be more plain.

Somehow, in just 4 days, the Dems have officially become the party of family values, in addition to being the party of equality and inclusivity. It's actually surreal to those of us old enough to have slogged our way through many contentious election cycles and decades of hypocrytical myopic bullshit foisted upon us by old-fashioned post-Reagan conservatives.

The selection of Tim Walz as VP turned out to be masterful. Next to him, JD Vance looks even more pathetic and stupid than he already did. The men on the republican ticket are fundamentally incapable of acting like the informed, caring adults on the historic democratic ticket.

I'm disappointed in the youth on social media as usual. As an elder millennial progressive, I have always been further left than the tickets I've voted for and the administrations I've supported. Even my favorite politicians have done things I don't like or agree with. But that's the way it is. It's something we as voters and citizens do not have full control over and never will.

I believe in a free Palestine and I in no way condone the US involvement in supplying Israel with weapons in an unjust war. I also am not a fan of the barely disguised antisemitism that's permeating that cause, and I'm smart enough to know that the entirety of the conflict is much more complex than the last year's news cycle. You can seek out documentaries by credible news sources (like the excellent Vice News program previously aired on HBO and other cable channels) that detail bothe the history of Israel, the history of Palestinian struggles, and the history of the US relationship with Israel, and what that territory means to the different religious factions that want it for themselves (and how sects of Christianity have been indoctrinated into the cause of gaining it for themselves).

The thing is that this election isn't about that relationship or that conflict. It's not about anyone else's country. It's about ours.

I'm American, but I grew up in Venezuela. They just had a big election there that resulted in a steal from a dictator-like unpopular president. But unlike ee did with Trump the first time he lost, they can't actually get his ass out of the presidential palace. Chavez and Maduro have ruined that country with the same anti-democratic tactics that Trump would love to employ and pushed millions of citizens to emigrate from the country.

None of that is about the US either.

My point being, every country on this planet has it's own problems that for better or for worse, we have to largely leave in the hands of the citizens of those nations to resolve.

This is your opportunity to continue the slow correction of the path we've been on in America since Clinton and Obama. It's a slow march towards progress that keeps getting stymied and dragged back, then pushed a little bit forward again. These moderate liberals are the only vote we have that will ever possibly lead to a truly progressive hero and champion. You know, most likely someone in one of our generations.

Millenials and Gen Z have a lot in common, but as the older of the two, I'm telling you, only time and experience will prove to you that you can't have everything in one candidate or even an entire party, and wasting your ability to actually make a difference for noble ideals that won't make an actual difference to those lives you think you're trying to save is illogical.

Israel will not stop bombing Gaza because you sat out of a US election, or because you protested the DNC, or protest voted 3rd party.

Until the system is overhauled, there is no point in 3rd party voting. Of course we should have more than 2 options. We don't.

Anyway....... I am joyful this week.

I still can't believe Grandpa Joe actually got pushed out of the nomination. They are taking this swift shift to Kamala Harris and running Sha'Carri Richardson fast with it.

Get on board.

It's nice not to feel doomed all the time. I don't even care if it's partially an illusion. I know the alternative is a living nightmare that needs to end.

[my-midlife-crisis]

[perseuspixl]

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Vote Democrat

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[themerrygnome]

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[petasos]

"What's Kamala Harris going to do for me? Why should I vote? She doesn't support Palestine!"

She's going to protect access to abortion, as well as IVF and birth control!

She's going to address climate change. Breathable air and keeping warming at 1.5c is the only way to save this planet!

She's going to address the housing crisis by introducing a tax incentive for builders to build new homes. I think we can all agree we want to be able to own homes in our lifetimes!

She's going to cut taxes for the middle class, which means you and me will pay less taxes!

She's going to forgive medical debt and continue Biden's efforts to forgive student loan debt, which is good news for everyone!

Also, she does, in fact, support Palestine and a ceasefire and Palestinians would prefer her as president to Trump.

Vote for Kamala Harris. She is the far superior candidate compared to Donald Trump. A lot of people will not survive another four years under Donald Trump: vote for her, not for yourself, but for your friends and family who are LGBTQ+, people of color, women, and disabled!

And if at most you refuse to vote in the presidential election, vote locally. Vote for your senators and congressmen and school board. We must stop conservatives from destroying our rights, liberties, and freedoms. If you're on an airplane that's about to crash, you must put on your own mask before helping other people! Likewise, we must prevent America from falling to fascism if we are to help other countries!

If you're above 18, register to vote, and if you register as a democrat in a swing state or red state, check your registration weekly until the election.

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Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.

I'll see you at the polls!

[theobjectivemind]

[my-chemical-starship]

Trump's anti-LGBTQ+ record speaks for itself. Kamala Harris is a fierce protector, ally, and friend of the queer community

Get involved: https://events.democrats.org/event/615101/

[astoriachef]

[mylionheart2]

[kimkimberhelen]

Terminally online leftists are the most miserable people.

Your misery is not activism. Could be an act, but it ain't activism.

[queermccoy]

when someone asked jd vance what makes him happy and he couldn’t come up with an answer like omg DUDE he could have turned the whole meme situation around if he’d looked directly into the camera and said, “my couch” it would change everything but instead he’s a deeply deeply unfunny man making jokes about elections people barely remember and being weird about cats

[m0thersapphic]

I can't believe we're so close to electing someone who could codify Roe v. Wade, legalize weed, protect public education, and put Trump in jail and some of y'all are really like hmmm not good enough.

[loislaina]

Conservatives have no concept of what freedom actually means.

You believe homosexuality is a sin? Fine, don't get gay married.

You believe being trans is an abomination? Fine, don't transition.

You believe abortion is wrong? Fine, don't get an abortion.

But allow others the freedom to choose their own path.

What is with these sickos and their obsession with what consenting adults do with one another? With what genitals someone has? With whether or not someone chooses to have children? Tim Walz is right, these people are fucking WEIRD.

Poor widdle babies, so afraid of a world they lack the capacity to comprehend, that they must impose their views on everyone else in a vain attempt to control it. The absolute arrogance. Such small, weak people, so utterly impotent and insecure in themselves. I would pity them if they weren't so dangerous.

They don't even understand basic biology; they lack the ability to comprehend the existence of intersex people. So what an atrocious vanity, then, to believe they have more a right to play god than their own God, who according to them created the world and everything in it - including intersex people. Not to mention homosexuality, which is known to exist in thousands of animal species. Homophobia exists in only one. No fucking prizes for guessing which one.

I wish these people would just fuck right off and go back to the dark ages where they belong.

I am obviously angry. Livid, even. I readily admit it. I want to make conservatives HURT. I want them to feel the terror that every queer person, every freethinking woman, every person of color feels when our rights are endlessly debated during every election cycle, as if our very existence is something to be negotiated. And when the subject of Project 2025 comes up. You CANNOT tell me that Trump knows nothing about this, or that he disavows it. A majority of the people known to be involved with it worked in his administration. Even if he himself does not hate queer people (unlikely), his backers and his base do, and he will do and say anything to get back into power. He's just a puppet of these freaks.

And yeah okaaaaay, I live in Canada, but to quote a now deceased PM of ours (Pierre Trudeau, who happens to be Justin's father): "Living next to you [America] is like sleeping next to an elephant. No matter how gentle the beast, you feel every twitch and grunt." A second Trump term would most certainly not be gentle. I have been increasingly concerned about the export of American culture war bullshit to Canadian contexts. The Conservative Opposition leader, Pierre Polivere, might as well be Ben Fucking Shapiro for all the Americanized Christo-fascist rhetoric he's adopted.

And besides all of the above, I feel myself a citizen of the world foremost, not merely of one nation. I wish the best for Americans and all of humanity. I don't want to see anyone suffer just because a group of uptight, insecure, self-righteous, sanctimonious, ignorant, perverted, authoritarian WEIRDOS feels the burning desire to impose their sick ideology on everyone else. Fucking incels.

[dicapiito]

In the end, leftists doing this faux “ holier than thou” bullshit about Kamala Harris are really saying they don’t give a fuck about Black People, brown people, women, lgbt community, disabled community and seniors in America

It was never about Palestine and they can really stop acting like that’s the real issue about Harris. Especially when they only said something after October 7th

I see why the DNC made sure to stop entertaining these clowns because they think they should have their salad tossed to vote for her when the other guy and Project 2025 is the alternative.

So tired of leftists and their faux concern for a conflict while they ignore that Trump would give police immunity to beat on anyone who ain’t a straight white man.

Vote Kamala Harris and vote Blue down ballot. Don’t vote Harris because of “ reasons” then imma just assume you want a lily yt evangelical nightmare country ran by a dictator.

That’s just the reality.