I heard a piece on Here And Now today about a group of single issue voters in Dearborn that is actively working to disrupt and damage the Harris campaign. They are trying to get dems to vote for Stein.
It seems like they’re using multiple strategies in an effort to put pressure on the Dems. Some are saying that they are going to vote for Trump even though they are also anti-Trump. Their logic is that Kamala is actively contributing to a genocide, whereas Trump is not.
I doubt there is anything they can do to actually make Democrat politicians feel pressure, but I do agree with their sentiments. I’m not voting for some who is pro-genocide. Trump is both pro-genocide and fascist. I’m also not going to vote for a 3rd party candidate because most 3rd parties focus on the presidential race more than they focus on grassroots efforts.
Their logic is that Kamala is actively contributing to a genocide, whereas Trump is not.
This is literally the most braindead political take I’ve ever heard, and that’s saying a lot
It’s a classic “technically true, but not particularly useful” information tidbit. Harris is in office, Trump isn’t.
Of course, you could argue that Vance - as a powerful member of the US Senate - is participating in the genocide while Walz - a governor of a midwestern state with no meaningful role in foreign policy - isn’t. Equally true, but meaningless.
The problem Harris has isn’t that Trump gets innocence-by-default by being out of office for four years. Its that she’s doggedly clinging to the “both sides” framing of the Israeli genocide and scaring off Arab-American voters as a consequence. It doesn’t matter whether Harris is better or worse than Trump when the baseline of US policy is the mass slaughter of your friends and family.
It’s a classic “technically true, but not particularly useful” information tidbit. Harris is in office, Trump isn’t.
Harris is in an office that is entirely powerless (yes, she casts a vote in the event of a Senate tie, but no bill funding Israel has come down to that). She and Trump have nothing to do with the (current) Palestinian genocide.
I agree that it’s a bad take. But at this point I think that they’re desperate, trying anything they can to get Kamala to change course. It’s an urgent issue that can be solved easily: just stop supplying weapons and aid to Israel. Four years from now, most Palestinians living in Palestine will already be dead.
That loses older uninformed democrat voters unfortunately
Voting is a strategic choice, not an endorsement. You should vote for the candidate who you would rather have in office.
Uncommited movement: “Guess I won’t vote”
How do you do fellow young adults.
The kids are alright.
Young women are alright, right wing support amongst <35 y.o. men is surprisingly high…
Agreed. I’m a teacher and see it in my classrooms. I often feel that they’re not taught how to have healthy community, so they become lil fascists…
If they’re like my nephew, the “manosphere” gives them easy answers as to why everything seems to suck.
Yup. And it’s always women and brown folks.
Don’t forget LGBTQ and furries. 🙄
The amount of times I’ve had to address the “students using litter boxes” schtick is absolutely mind boggling.
It’s always a school two towns over, and it’s always someone who has no attachment to the school attempting to push it.
right wing support amongst <35 y.o. men is surprisingly high…
The media is flush with fascist attitudes in a country where going on the computer and listening to fascist rants is all you’re allowed to do with your time.
“in a country where […] all you’re allowed to do with your time.”
Eh… The same phenomenon is observed all over first world countries and all of those countries you’re allowed to do mostly whatever the fuck you want with your free time…
Good. Scammers need to be called out and avoided at all costs.
A vote for Stein is a vote for Trumph
A vote for Stein is a vote for Stein. Don’t try to bend logic.
Voting third party is viable when we change the voting system, to ranked choice voting for example. Until that time comes, the two primary parties will remain dominant.
That is never going to happen.
It’s literally already happening. Locality by locality state by state at least take the time to look around you before you make any absolute statements. It’s going to take forever at the national level absolutely. Far longer than I should. But it can and will happen.
It’s sure not going to happen by voting for Stein.
Amen, brother!
Yall mfs gonna cost Universalmonk his Lada.
So much energy from democrats that they should instead spend on pressuring their party leadership to change their evil policy of genocide support.
I don’t know, this might be a pretty effective strategy
It might.
Gen Z advocacy group
Is just code for “DC Consulting firm”. The energy is less popular appeals and more paid professional trolls.
Probably a fair assessment. Honestly, the energy I’m thinking of is all these Lemmy users.
Shouldn’t be hard to convince anyone not to vote for her who doesn’t hate minorities.
Just let him know that David Duke endorsed Jill Stein.
If that isn’t a literal mic drop on her campaign idk what more can be done. Just make sure everyone knows before they approach a voting booth.
Wait til you find out Dick Cheney endorsed Harris! Probably the chief architect of the “GWOT”, responsible for over 1 million dead. Fuck David Duke, but he’s fuckin small potatoes compared to Dick-Vader.
Duke endorsed Stein because she does not support Israel.
The Stein campaign called David Duke trash and disavowed him.
The dishonesty here staggering.
Ooh that’s some good /agedlikemilk
Duke is endorsing for Stein, because Stein does not support Israel and Duke is antisemitic.
Koch’s is voting for Harris, because she works for the billionaire class and he is a billionaire.
One of these two is not like the other.
Lmao bro David Duke is an overt white supremacist. The association alone is damning, despite the disavowal.
Your argument is that anyone who does not support Israel is a KKK member.
That is absolutely not what I am saying
The association alone is damning
He just said he supports her. That’s not an association. He agrees with her on her policy towards Israel. Unless you think her policy towards Israel is unreasonable and only would be held by a white supremacist, then its a ridiculous position to try and maintain, because it basically says that anyone who opposes us support of Israel agrees with David Duke and thus is “associated” with him.
Huh, the Nazi agrees with her stance on Israel? I mean, fuck Israel, but I wouldn’t want that endorsement on me.
And she denounced him. So clearly she doesn’t want it either.
Mental gymnastics Olympic event right here. Not at all surprised to see Nazis and KKK fighting for the gold.
I made my point and can defend it. You just hand waved it away with some empty accusation.
It’s clear who has more faith in their position. Both you and I know it too.
Now do Cheney and Harris
What am I supposed to do? Repeated that an endorsement is a one way thing?
I see you’re continuing to defend former KKK leader David Duke.
If you’re wondering if I care to hear your defense, I don’t.
Cheers!
Lol in what fantasy world have I been defending David Duke?
According to the “lesser evil” rhetoric Jill Stein is the lesser evil candidate and anyone who doesn’t vote for her is supporting fascists.
Nice gotcha, but she’s not going to win, so she’s not practically a choice. “Vote for the lesser evil” is a good shorthand, but it’s still shorthand; the philosophy is to vote in a way that will cause the least harm. If your candidate has no chance of winning, then you aren’t doing that, since your vote is roughly equivalent to not voting. Voting for a third party only makes sense if you weren’t going to vote at all, and in that case it’s a better choice but still not the best one. Hope that helps clear up any confusion around the lesser evil sentiment.
they should probably focus more on voting for Kamala Harris
Shill who?
Isn’t this just effectively giving her more attention? I’m not convinced that this helps.
