Thunberg added that “no matter” which one of them wins, America “will still be an imperialist, hyper-capitalist world power that will ultimately continue to lead the world further into a racist, unequal world with an ever increasingly escalating climate and environmental emergency”.

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    You don’t need the permission of a European kid to vote for the least shit option for your government and kick the can of fascism a little further down the road. The recent is close - the outcomes delivered by each candidate aren’t - you shouldn’t need encouragement to vote accordingly.

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      nothing to kick down the road, fascism is already here.

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          they are lol. why else would they be killing brown people inside your country and abroad?

          and imposing sanctions and financial ruin everywhere…

          or not letting you have healthcare…

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            sigh

            What definition of fascism are you using? It sure as shit isn’t the dictionary or Eco’s - words have meaning.

            That aside, there are 2 possible outcomes for this election - that’s a simple, mathematical reality. If you care about brown people, which of those two options will cause the death and suffering of far more of those people?

            …but rather than lift a finger to actually help those you claim to care about, you’re going to throw them under the bus and empower the worse option because you can’t swallow your pride and vote for the lesser of two evils. An I right in thinking you’ll risk those peoples’ lives so that you can virtue signal with a Green vote?

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              wait, instilling global-level racism is not fascism? what about economically leashing the entirety of the third world for being “inferior entrepeneurs” or some bullshit? the US today is nazi germany gone wrong (and subtle).

              there is one possible outcome for this election: your country keeps raining bombs in the middle east and keeping the rest of us down. oh, and fascism keeps expanding regardless of your inaction about it. you are not getting healthcare, or real wealth redistribution, or housing reform, or anything of that sort either. big sigh.

              also in what basis do you say i dont lift a finger to help my people, again? i missed that part.

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                wait, instilling global-level racism is not fascism?

                No. Fascism is fascism. This exact flavor of stupidity/dishonesty is why I asked where you get your nonsense definition. You don’t need me to define fascism - just take the five minutes to pick up your preferred dictionary or even better, Umberto Eco’s widely respected definition and educate yourself.

                there is one possible outcome for this election

                No. There are two (bad) possible outcomes that vary massively in the scale of death and suffering that they’ll lead to. To draw and argue a false equivalence is not only to dismiss that easily preventable death and suffering - it’s to advocate for it. Also, not relevant, but not my country.

                If you’re not American, you can’t vote, but where you’re failing to lift a finger is that you refuse to ease off your meaningless virtue signalling bullshit around the election a massive number of lives are at stake.

                Pull your fucking head in and stop enabling the deaths of who knows how many people you dishonestly claim to care about as you weaponise their suffering for nothing more than your ego.

                Absolutely disgraceful.