• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    As long as Biden makes it past the vote and wins, he could drop dead a planck length past the finish line and we’d still have mission accomplished.

    Let’s be real, at this point Biden is a placeholder candidate above which you should see the nametag “literally just not Donald Trump again.”

    Especially after that one Supreme Court ruling, I cannot stress enough that you are either voting for Biden or supporting an American fall into dictatorship.

    This isn’t just about moral backbone in standing up for those who can’t anymore, it’s about survival. We beat them back or we may as well accept that the number of us who are gonna live to see the full depth of outcomes will be significantly less than the statistical average for most elections.

    Vote.

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      Yup, unite or die moment for the democracy, Joe has my vote, my time, my small donations.

      Besides, America has:

      • Under 4% unemployment
      • Record low crime rates
      • Dow near 40,000
      • Schedule 3 weed
      • Historic student loan forgiveness programs

      On substance, Biden has been a great president. On substance, Trump is a lying fascist who talks about being a dictator on day 1.

      Be a substance voter, not an optics voter.

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        I dont vote for corpses, and i certainly dont vote for genociders. You realize that voting in a corpse means the actual president is accountable to literally nobody, right?

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      I’ll only add that it’s not just Biden. Trump is a patsy here.

      Every D, any D, every election at all levels. For all time.

      If it’s a D primary I’ll vote policies and take a hard look at the candidates. That’s it.

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    I don’t usually like to get political, but this isn’t even politics anymore; it’s just common sense.

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          Einstein defined common sense as the sum of prejudices acquired by the average person by age 18. He was making a point about how the ways neuronormative society expects people to think are highly culturally dependant. Einstein was of course the autistic person who proved our fundamental assumptions about spacetime wrong. Einstein was a great scientist precisely because he didn’t have any common sense. Common sense doesn’t reflect truth, it only reflects dominant social attitudes. Growing beyond those attitudes requires uncommon sense.

          If Trump wins, dominant social attitudes will be fascist. Common sense will be fascist. But truth and science will remain leftist. They will be very political.

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    To the left of it all:
    Almost anyone else > …

    Still, vote Biden to prevent fascism.

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      Trump is not a Fascist, I’m saying this as a self described Classical-Fascist / Corporatist.

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        Oh, a legitimate self-admitted fascist. Yikes…

        Plus, the Cruelty Squad profile pic is goofy, considering it was made by a leftist.

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          Yes, Fascism is growing all around the world. More and more of the political youth are getting tired of western democracy and western liberalism and are finding people like: Brother Nathanael, Nick Fuentes, and more classical writers such as Julius Evola.

          On the Cruelty Squad comment: I can enjoy a medium that was created by someone with whom I do not agree politically. Also, I agree with Ville Kallio on many points, such as uncontrolled capitalism leading to a dystopian corporatocracy.

          Also: I am not a National Socialist (Nazi) nor am I an anti-Semite.

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            Yes, I am aware that the far-right is rising, this is a reactionary response to the necessary problems within Capitalism, rather than a progressive, leftist response. The fact that scum like Fuentes are rising in popularity does not make it good.

            You can enjoy Cruelty Squad, but personally identifying with media that hates you is silly.

            I don’t care if you don’t consider yourself an anti-semite or a Nazi, you’re a fascist, and that’s enough.

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    If only low-information apathetic undecided swing-state voters who will ultimately decide this election felt this way.

    Friendly reminder:

    • Biden won by only 40,000 voters in 3 battleground states in 2020.
    • Biden was up 10 pts in the polls at this time in 2020.
    • Biden is anywhere from 3-6 pts behind trump in every reputable poll today.
    • There is nothing from here until November to suggest those polls will budge, given their long-term steadily-declining trend, especially in the aftermath of that catastrophic debate performance.
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    Yeah the American Democratic and Republican parties do not realize how much pain they’ve caused the world… including their own populace. Being eaten alive by bed bugs in prison with no A/C is… pleasant, compared to what is possible

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    A weekend at Bernie’s thing for the next four years wouldn’t be the worst option for US.

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    Anyone else think that we should move presidential elections to an odd numbered year so that people aren’t distracted by the Olympics during the prime period that they should be learning about the candidates?