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    Although that is true, you were never promised a fair world.

    You need to use all your cunning and what little power you have to best negotiate the one you live in. Being able to vote democrats in gave you two parties to play against each other. The option of a lesser evil.

    By not voting, and allowing the republicans to stack the supreme court, non-voters gave away their last bargaining chip.

    It is not the parties that will burn.

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      Being able to vote democrats in gave you two parties to play against each other.

      *Two parties to be played by. The existence of two parties allows the ruling class to launder their neoliberalism and/or fascism through a “legitimate” political process. If there was only one party people would actually take to the streets.

      You need to use all your cunning and what little power you have to best negotiate the one you live in.

      And maybe there’s a way to do that better than carrying water for the “lesser evil” that ends up losing to fascists anyway? The model you’re proposing has decisively failed anyway; might as well try something else.

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            imperfect candidate

            I have to correct this: imperfect candidate genocider who also outright ignored that you’re being robbed of your labor and you are no longer paid enough to buy food. And for added fun, the candidate doesn’t have a working brain anymore.

            Imperfect indeed. I wonder just how badly Democrats have to fail before you’d change your behavior.

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              genocider who also outright ignored that you’re being robbed of your labor and you are no longer paid enough to buy food.

              The Biden years were the absolute best years in living memory for lowskilled labour opportunity and wages.

              You hated it because it made doordash cost more and you interpreted help wanted signs in storefronts as high unemployment.

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                The Biden years were the absolute best years in living memory for lowskilled labour opportunity and wages.

                LOL, taking a bit of liberty with the words ‘living memory’, and further, you’re wrong. It’s why Harris eventually had to turn to gaslighting us on affordability and the economy, because all of the facts and figures seem important if you’re not someone who shops for yourself, minds your own children, or has to actually manage your own bills.

                You hated it because it made doordash cost more and you interpreted help wanted signs in storefronts as high unemployment.

                No, I hate it because, under Biden, it became a thing that the billionaires weren’t satisfied with housing, education, health care, and child care becoming cost-prohibitive. Now, food is too, and the Biden/Harris campaign just ignored it.

                But since you mention DoorDash, I will admit to being a little angry that my eighty year-old parents have to work for DoorDash or face the reality of homelessness in America. Bummer that I can’t have a president who cares about people being able to afford groceries no matter who I vote for.

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                  LOL, taking a bit of liberty with the words ‘living memory’

                  No, the Biden economy was the best for low-skilled workers that you can remember unless you can remember FDR.

                  and further, you’re wrong. It’s why Harris eventually had to turn to gaslighting us on affordability and the economy

                  You’re smart enough to understand how the billionaire controlled media manipulates the public on police violence and Israel, but not smart enough to figure out that they were doing the same thing for Biden’s economy.

                  Why? Because shitting on Democrats confirms your biases so you turned your brain off.

                  No, I hate it because, under Biden, it became a thing that the billionaires weren’t satisfied with housing, education, health care, and child care becoming cost-prohibitive.

                  There was a global inflation crisis. None of the rising costs had anything to do with anything Biden did. In fact, Biden managed the crisis better than any other leader in the world.

                  Biden wasn’t perfect, especially when it came to Israel he was total shit, but he was the most pro-worker President of our lives and the Billionaires, small town business owners, and Media hated him for that and relentlessly hammered into people’s heads that the economy was bad. Now we’re actually living through a bad economy and there’s hardly a peep out of anyone about it.

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            Democrats are not imperfect candidates, they are the blue shade of fascism doing what fascists do to hold into power.

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        Curses! You’ve cracked the code! This is the very first generation to believe in morality, and that fixed everything!

        By increasing suffering, you’re actually better than everyone else, see! It’ll get way worse, eventually failing, and in that power vacuum, only good people will seize control!

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      Lesser evil doesn’t exist, that’s bs liberals tell themselves to distract from the fact they chose evil

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        Being unable to perceive a spectrum is a special kind of stupid. There are many degrees of bad, and many degrees of good.

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        Gaza/Palestine would still be screwed, but would a Harris-Walz administration threaten Canada, attack Venezuela and capture Maduro, engage in piracy and extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean, attack Iran and cause the Hormuz Strait to close, put a tax (tariff) on virtually everything Americans buy? Would they encourage universities to arrest students for not being Israel cucks, would they make regulatory mergers contingent on fealty to them? Would they cancel land leases and try to cancel partially built offshore wind farms, and dump taxpayer money on companies to burn coal unnecessarily and to build oil and gas infrastructure? Would they continue the massive wealth transfer enabled by Republicans’ 2017 tax cuts or allow them to expire? Would immigration forces be used to kidnap random people on the street, and as a President Harris’ personal goon squad? Would they elect to blow up the relationship with virtually every allied country, such that they become hesitant when they actually need help?

        This is just what I can think of off the top of my head. Not all evils are created equal. Trump, MAGA and Republicans are special breeds.

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          they encourage universities to arrest students for not being Israel cucks

          They already were in California and NYC

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      Your vote has never made an impact on policy. Most nonvoters have realized this, their material conditions are unchanged regardless which shade of fascism is running government.

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          She just supported over funding ice, funding a genocide than denying one was going on. Supported ‘the strongest, most lethal fighting force in the world.’

          She was first term trump in blackface.

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          And no material conditions didnt improve under biden. We saw the highest jump in homeless ever recorded. Auto repo s through the roof, credit card debt skyrocketed, 72% lived paycheck to paycheck.