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US election 2024: Greta Thunberg refuses to endorse either candidate in damning post
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this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2024
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You can't suss out which of the candidates is more competent?
Mkay.
Hopefully you don't have a driving licence.
Believe it or not, but the US is not the centre of the universe. I genuinely have no idea what policies either candidate is proposing, and the occasional descriptions such as "literal Nazi" or "real Antichrist" aren't really informative. I'm much more interested in which of my local parties would most likely decrease housimg prices, build better public transport infrastructure or finance more equitable social welfare support. Neither US candidate will have any effect on those, apart from perhaps a few more American immigrants on our shores. So, I really don't feel competent to speak about American politics, and I doubt Greta is any more competent. It would be an insult to Americans to presume that they need foreigners to tell them how to vote.
You're seriously suggesting that you live in a place where you don't get news from what Trump is like, all the things he's done?
I'm not American either, buddy, but like you, we're both on the internet. Pretending you live in some news blackout or haven't the werewithall to understand that a semi-demented fascist felon reality-TV star fraudster who's literally promising dictatorship isn't worse than a pretty fucking normal career politician? That's really weird man.
Would you disagree that Trump winning the US presidency would have detrimental global effects? "I wouldn't know, I can't know, how would I know."
You're on Lemmy and for the next few days at least any non-curated feed is going to be filled with US politics. Why would you pretend to be so wholly ignorant of them?
I'd like to take a moment to remind you that the article is about Greta Thundberg just not endorsing either candidate. She's Swedish. She can have an opinion on the election, people are allowed opinions. Yes, even young girls. But like you, she's refusing to endorse a candidate, as she's not American?
My opinion is that it's very weird to pretend to be so mediailliterate that you don't know what Donald Trump is like.
You are absolutely correct that I'm seeing the news, and the social media posts. I don't feel either offer an accurate representation of the candidates. The legacy media seems to be focusing on the campaigns, not the actual proposed policies of the candidates (apart of some "sky is falling" clickbaits). Social media is pure hyperbole: Trump wears makeup and his running mate an eyeliner; Harris has a weird laugh, etc.
Within context of my voting, I make the effort to explore the parties' previous performance, and read their election manifestos. I didn't actually bother to find the election manifestos of the two main candidates, so I don't feel that I'm well informed to make a good voting decision. I can go by the candidates' previous record. When Trump was President, the sky didn't fall, his presidency didn't affect things in my country, just some people were better off and some worse off. When Harris was the VP, same thing applied. Much of criticism towards Trump, especially his mental capacity, can be applied to the current Biden presidency, and I somehow fail to see anything catastrophic happening.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were some fundamental differences between the proposed policies of Trump and Harris. However, I can't see them when casually perusing both legacy news and social media. Or, better to say, I don't feel I can trust either. To get an accurate picture, I'd need to do proper research, and I can't be arsed with that. I don't think either candidate's win will affect me significantly enough to force me to do my research and campaign on-line for one or the other.