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flabberghaster wrote

Even though I know a trump win will be disastrous, I will not be voting for Genocide Joe for two main reasons. Three really.

The first is, given my state, my vote doesn't matter. But I feel that that is a huge cop out, and I acknowledge that. There's so many things people say "well my opinion on it doesn't matter so I don't need a position on this." If you're weighing in on politics, you're implicitly saying you want people to take you and your politics seriously so you have to have an answer for how you'd like things. So, I won't be voting for him, and it doesn't matter if I do or don't, but I'm not just trying to avoid the question.

Number two, the dude spent the entire primary saying everything I want politically is stupid and he has zero interest in it. He then spent his entire term in office continuing to say all the stuff I wanted (student loan cancellation, climate action, an end to the maltreatment of refugees, I could go on) was never gonna happen. He doesn't want my vote. He thinks he can get by without it and he thinks we're all silly for having the politics we do. Maybe he's right, I don't know.

Third, the man is engaged in an ongoing genocide. This is a red line. I will never vote for him. Even if he had done every other thing I wanted, I find it shocking that saying "assisting in a genocide is a red line for me" seems to be an alien concept for a lot of people.

I won't vote for 99% Hitler to stop 100% Hitler because I won't vote for Hitler.

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