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In every election I've been capable of voting in my candidate didn't win the primary, and its always come down to two other clear options that could take it. One of those bags of shit has always been obviously and obscenely worse than the other. In local elections? Hell yeah. In primaries? Hell yeah. Senate races? Hell yeah. But at the finish line of the last few elections its moronic to not vote for whoever has the best shot of beating trump. I agree with you about most everything you've said and the rigged money infested political system here does need to go, I just think that in practice saying "both sides bad" on any presidential election lately is pretty foolish because the obvious worst case scenario is happening as we speak. What's your proposition for fixing it? what is your actionable response? How're you changing it? Did you cast a ballot?

I'd agree that the dnc and rnc are two wings of the same bird. Hoooweeeever there absolutely is a less than, now instead of being in a situation where political pressure could have swayed foreign policy positions, we have a Cheeto fascist who gives not a single shit unless a situation enriches himself and is in addition to enabling Israel has begun committing his own human rights violations, attacks on the press, flagrantly pissing on the constitution etc.

Would you say that trumps policy on Gaza has made it better than if Harris had taken it? "Let it rip" seems to be his policy on the ethnic cleansing we're watching go down. Not to mention the wholesale abuse of civil liberties and dissent crackdown vastly more prevalent than it was under biden. I get it man, he let us all down, but i think the alternative is sooo much worse by comparison.

It seems like you missed the part where he ran for president and couldn't get there. Pragmatically it was either sleepy Joe or T-bag, so him endorsing Biden was less about him agreeing with DNC policy and more to prevent the return of trump. I can't understand how you don't understand that. Voting is damage control, and the U.S. population not voting for the lesser of two evils in this last cycle has now allowed a swollen, poorly painted, anthropomorphic, pus-filled wart to extort the entire nation and level its financial and military strength against the entire rest of the world. All that said, the biden/Harris admin was complicit in the worst humanitarian disaster that I've been alive for and none of that is okay.

Man, the criticisms are valid, and I'll even add to them because his pride in not stepping down sooner doomed what shreds of american democracy were left. That said, the best and largest climate bill ever passed by the US govt happened under him. Unions were bolstered and grew under him (not the train workers tho lol) and if nothing else, his victory let me not think about the fat orange cow for ten minutes. In so many ways, I pity and even kinda miss that sad sleepy bastard-- however much he floundered in almost every way. As a bonus his dogs hated government agents as much as I do, and got to bite them with impunity.

Yeeeeah dude. I just looked it up, I've been fucking that up forever.

Duly noted. --The edit being that I said dually noted, which had previously meant to me "I'll remember that twice as hard" Obviously i shit the bed on that one.

They deserve a decent time now and again, good on you.

I feel like with Zeus's reputation for assuming the form of people or animals to trick foolish mortals, there's a lot of benevolent trolling that could be done in times like these.

There is no better use of your awesome powers that comes to mind.

It's far funnier than it should be Your name is also perfect to have been the first to comment.

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