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A reminder to all you far left and far right nutjobs that think Joe Biden has done nothing significant in office
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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I would like to take concrete steps towards the US murdering fewer brown people. As a trans person things have got worse under Biden (I don't care about being able to serve in the fucking military lmao).
For all the fashy rhetoric from Trump (he almost literally demanded a kent state during the floyd protests), the squishy center pretended to care about opposing the government when it was doing terrible things. From my perspective that opposition was clearly all coming from a sense of tribalism, because our government is doing worse things now and we're getting memes about how baller joe biden is.
When the Republicans end up in power they're like the dog catching the car because they have to do all their unpopular stuff in the open and everyone hates them. When Democrats are in power everyone stops caring when they do demonic shit, so it's full steam ahead with world war 3. Clearly nuance is lost on liberals and they need a BBEG (painted red) in power in order for them to oppose their own government.
I shouldn't weigh in that much as I don't live in the US and only follow US politics from a distance.
I can even very much understand the opposition against the "lesser of 2 evils" notion. Of course I also have emotions (haha) and when I look at the far-right populists in my own country and how the established parties have failed so many people and let the rise of inequality continue... Then I too don't want to vote for the lesser of two evils.
But I regularly realise how my emotions misguide me. How I become more blind to the reasons why politicians (even conservative ones) act like they do and that it's not just out of greed, evil and ignorance. How complicated the world is and how grey instead of black and white. Luckily I live in a country where a respectful discourse between political rivals does occasionally happen and allows me to deradicalise myself a bit.
If you want to take concrete steps toward the US murdering fewer brown people, the question IMO would be "where do I have the most leverage with my vote?" If you think that voting neither for Biden, nor for Trump does that, that's perfectly fine for me and it's your right, of course. I doubt that voting for a 3rd party in the US has any leverage at all but surely I'm no expert.