• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    As I keep telling people, I take W.C. Fields’ advice when it comes to voting: “I never vote for, only against.”

    And people like you don’t get that. I didn’t vote for anyone. I voted against Trump because there were only two viable choices.

    And this has been true for me for every election in my adult life. Because I do not care about which team you or anyone else is on, all I care about is keeping the worst of the worst out of office.

    And that failed, which is why I got the fuck out of America before my daughter was forced into a conversion therapy camp.

    I expect, if you’re like others who take your attitude, your next response will be about how I should put the needs of Palestinians over my own child and there won’t be a genocide of queer people despite them being totally open about their intentions.

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      20 hours ago

      How has voting against worked for you? Given that you fled the country, it doesn’t sound like it got the outcome you wanted.

      With the data point, I’ll keep voting for things I want - will let you know if that strategy works better.

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          19 hours ago

          Y’all are really just allergic to actual discourse.

          I get it, you don’t like Trump being president. Neither do I. Personally blaming me for the party gaslighting about Biden’s fitness, then running Kamala on trans erasure, ‘most lethal’ military, a militarized border, tax cuts, etc. etc. Is counterproductive. Large parts of her platform, and this is not an exaggeration, were literally what Trump ran on in 2016.

          Did you vote for Trump’s policies in 2016? Why are you insisting everyone do just that in 2024?