• queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    Unless Trump fucks it up and causes Israel to lose. Unless Trump triggers a popular backlash like he did in 2020 and causes another historical protest movement. Unless Democrats become a real opposition party again and refuse to help him do genocide.

    We can’t actually predict what will happen, so I’m just voting with my conscience instead of trying to play 5D chess with my vote.

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      8 days ago

      You don’t need 5D chess to know that Trump would be worse. We have already seen it. Only last time he had sane people limiting his destruction. Now the lunatics are running the asylum.

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        8 days ago

        We already saw that he didn’t destroy democracy or start WW3. You can credit that to “sane people” limiting him but the fact is that what we saw wasn’t the Fourth Reich. It was just a shitty Republican president.

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              7 days ago

              If you remember that parable, the sky actually did fall that last time.

              Also, for the 1.2 million Americans who died from Covid, the sky did fall last time.

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                7 days ago

                If you remember the lesson of that parable, no one believes the chicken when the sky falls and the chicken has no one to blame but himself. You can’t keep saying it’s the most important election of our lifetimes because we stop believing it.

                And maybe the sky falls this time, but it’s the chicken’s fault that we don’t believe it.

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                    6 days ago

                    That’s definitely not why people use Chicken Little as an Aesop. The lesson is that if you lie over and over, people won’t believe you when it matters.

                    I certainly don’t.