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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21396125

Stephen Starr in Hamtramck, Michigan
Mon 14 Oct 2024 11.00 EDT

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[–] asdf1234idfk@reddthat.com 11 points 1 month ago (29 children)

I mean, it's not like there's any other viable candidate. I don't like the two party system but it's what we have and by voting any other way than Harris, it gives advantage to Trump.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (28 children)

Her shitty policies and attitude toward the genocide of people in the Levant is what's giving trump an advantage!

Her shitty attitude towards people calling on her not to support the genocide is what's giving trump an advantage.

She had it in the bag when she called him weird but you can always rely on a democrat to steal defeat from the jaws of victory!

And you know for sure that democrats are going to turn on minorities and leftists once she loses the election rather than face up to the fact that they did everything themselves to avoid winning it.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (27 children)
[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

passenger 1 - "Oh crud. Our boat is sinking. We are in great peril indeed."

captain - "We're going to be okay everyone, just get into this liferaft."

Pulls out liferaft with a huge fucking hole in it.

passenger 1 - "Is this the only liferaft we've got?"

captain - "Yes, but don't worry about the hole, it won't sink and we'll be fine I promise."

passenger 2 - "Hey guys, I have a liferaft over here that doesn't have a hole in it."

captain - "Guys, that's not important right now. Our boat is sinking."

passenger 1 - "Eh, I guess I'll go in that one."

passenger 3 - "Sure me too, captain says we should - wait where's captain?"

Looks up, in the distance sees captain floating away on functional liferaft.

captain - "So long fuckers!"

Passengers board remaining liferaft, liferaft sinks, the passengers die.

[–] capital@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Where you fucked up:

passenger 2 - "Hey guys, I have a liferaft over here that doesn't have a hole in it."

You can’t reach the other one with no holes.

One of 2 things is happening with this comment.

  1. You actually don’t know how FPTP voting works.

  2. You’re pretending to not know how FPTP voting works.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Captain represents capitalists falsely promising to fix our problems

Broken liferaft is the false promise (i.e. voting is going to fix our problems despite genocide, imperialism, deporting illegal immigrants, hurting homeless people, fracking, etc)

Fixed liferaft is what actually will save us (i.e. food, housing, healthcare, etc)

While everyone is hyperfocused on who to vote for, the capitalists take the rest of the food/housing/healthcare and everyone else dies.

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