may his fight against Alzheimer's stay strong as well
God the fucking privilege on display in these anti-Biden posts.
"I shouldn't have to vote for the lesser of two evils, I should get to vote for a candidate that 100% aligns with my desires. Who gives a shit about what will happen to the people around me and the people I'm virtue signaling about, all that matters is the feeling of clean-hands I'll have as my trans homies are marched off to the death camps or the Palestinians are eradicated. For I, the enlightened leftist, didn't vote for Biden."
For every reason you have to dislike Biden, you have an even larger reason to fear Trump. Want to support LGBTQ folks? Surely Trump will be better for them right? Want to support women's rights? Surely the guy who put three anti-abortion judges on the court will give us abortion back, right? Want to support Palestine? Surely Trump will put BB in his place and stop the genocide, right? Are you really willing to risk that for those groups just so you can feel superior? Just so you can hope to get a shit party to the 5% threshold and have them still fall on their face the next election?
If you feel comfortable enough voting third party or not voting it's because you have the privilege to be mildly inconvenienced for 4 years and be ok, unlike the groups you claim to be supporting with your protest vote.
As a Palestinian American, if the fascists don't kill me the aneurysm I'll probably get reminding these fuckasses that we live here too and will be much worse off under Trump than under Biden.
They always love us as dead bodies, dead bodies can't talk back about being fetishized as martyr figures and demand accountability for a "good" person acting proud of standing there and letting evil triumph because they didn't sully their own pride in the process.
It's the same as how Republicans cling to fetuses, free sympathy with no demands for solidarity to answer to!
Also as someone with a lifelong stutter f-f-f-fuck people who make jokes about Biden having Alzheimer's sideways with a running rusted chainsaw coated in ebola hosting fluid! My disability is not a fucking political baseball bat to beat someone with!
You just became one of my new favorite people.
Would you rather us vote for Trump?
No, they want us to vote third party in protest. Though it does effectively vote for Trump.
You know that there are international treaties he must follow, or be actually impeached. He's actually given Isreal the bare minimum and done his utmost to limit Netanyahu
HE HAS A STUTTER YOU FUCKING ABLEIST SWINE!
I swear to God some people say all the right words and then become hardcore bigots the second it seems like a way to beat on someone they don't like.
By now I can tell which post is anti-vote on this sub by the vote counts :D
libs really be triggered.
libs gotta lib
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