KoboldCoterie

joined 1 year ago
[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who even are you? Why has this gotten you in such a tizzy? Are you the 'comedian' that made the joke?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Incidentally it's a lot easier to take legal action against a business that violates the ADA than to take action against a government that insists on defunding programs like that.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

He's a Puerto Rican rapper / singer, and is extremely, extremely popular. This is a very big deal, even if you personally haven't heard of them.

Edit: He was the most streamed artist on Spotify globally in 2020, to give you some context.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I honestly hope you're getting paid by someone to be here. The Trump campaign, Musk, Putin, China, somebody, because at least then I could understand your stance from a purely self-serving standpoint. If this is your sincerely held belief, I don't know what happened to get you here, but you should probably review your sources and really think about what you're saying, because it's pure fiction.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I live in a country with a sane voting system

You don't have a spare room by any chance, do you?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 22 points 1 week ago (4 children)

we are no longer a 2 party nation

We're a two-party nation as long as first past the post voting is the standard. If you want the green party to be taken seriously, that should me what you're campaigning for, not a third candidate in an inherently two-party system.

I can throw away my vote on a genocidal cop who is pro-border wall, pro-incarceration of refugees, pro-genocide, pro-cop city, pro-lethal response to protesters, etc, or I can vote for the Green party to get actual funding and actual participation in the election process in 4 years.

You can vote for a candidate who's got a chance of beating the authoritarian dictator wannabe, or you can throw away your vote on a spoiler candidate with no chance of winning the election on the hopes that other people don't do the same and let Trump win.

I do hope that if Trump wins, all of you people who're trying to take the moral high ground will reflect on the situation and realize that you not only didn't do the bare minimum you could have to stop it, your actions actually indirectly assisted him gaining power again. I don't have much hope that that will happen, but I hope it does.

It's really a shame, because normally, I'd be very in support of the green party. I like their platform. But they need to get political seats elsewhere before going for the fucking presidency. Even if, by some weird happenstance, they got elected, they would be completely blocked by the other branches of government at every turn. Get some seats in local government, get some seats in state governments, get some house and senate seats, then try to join the big leagues.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 41 points 1 week ago (31 children)

one of the 3 major parties in the current election

Call it what you want, but the green party has no chance of making an impact on the outcome of this election except as a spoiler candidate.

I did what was necessary to combat that fascism

And by that you mean voting for the only non-fascist candidate with a chance of winning the election, right?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 30 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Yeah, that's cool, so am I - that's not the only thing that's on the ballot, though, and you can try to justify it as "Well, I'm not voting for anyone", but this is very much a "If you aren't voting against Trump, you're voting for him, directly or indirectly" situation.

It's cool, though - I'm sure everyone will understand. You couldn't do the bare minimum to prevent an authoritarian takeover because you felt very strongly about one issue. Nevermind that your actions actually made that issue's outcome worse for the people you purport to care about. We'll all overlook that.

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 62 points 1 week ago (92 children)

Let's say Trump gets elected, and ten years from now, some kid asks you, "What did you do to prevent this?"

Are you going to tell them you just didn't care enough to bother?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 128 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Every time you look at the app, they share the time you're seeing with every other user, it's a privacy nightmare!

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 45 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Even if you don't want to endorse a candidate, you can still denounce one. A decision not to denounce Trump and all that he stands for can easily be viewed as tacit acceptance.

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