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Many people are understandably worried about Trump in next year’s election. The White House will be decided by voters in these six states. Of the 12 senate seats from those states, 11 were won by Democrats. We will defeat Trump, again.
@georgetakei So what I'm hearing is that if I am not in one of these six states, I can safely vote third party to register my disgust with both major party candidates and I will have no effect on the outcome to the election.
Considering that's how we got Trump, I would suggest not.
We got Trump because HRC assumed like it was "her turn" and campaigned like a spoiled brat. We got Trump because too many people in this country felt like they were ignored and screwing over the political system was their only outlet. We got Trump because republican voters, even after seeing what a POS Trump was listed when their party told them "Politics is a team sport." and "Voting is like public transits; if there is not a candidate that gets you exactly where you want to go take the one that get you closest."
We are heading towards getting Trump again because Biden and the Dems didn't learn anything from 2016 because their minds were too clouded by winning the popular vote, but loosing the election and crying about third party candidates. Democrats cannot admit the reasons they actually lost and it is why they stand a very good chance of loosing to the Orange Monstrosity again.
No, of course not. If Trump wins again in 2024, it will be for the same reason he won the first time: Because many voters decided to help him win, either by voting for him, voting for someone other than his Democratic opponent, or not voting at all.
And [why](https://www.mindtools.com/a3mi00v/5-whys) are voters behaving that way?
@BigMcLargeHuge @barney I think you and Barney and George can work on this project. You can be the team lead!
Because self-absorbed assholes discourage people from voting, by making offensive comments like "register my disgust with both major party candidates," without the slightest regard for how millions of people's lives will be affected by their childish tantrums.
That's why.
There are also the more aggressively evil scumbags, like the Republican who runs the qoto.org instance, who derive either profit or pleasure from deliberately manipulating people with non-fascist sentiments into helping fascists take power.
In his case, the motivating force appears to be perverse pleasure, rather than profit. It looks like he's doing it for free.
@barney Wow! I have the power to alter the outcome of the presidential election by posting on the fediverse. I never knew I had such influence. I guess the Biden campaign (or maybe even the Trump campaign) will be contacting me shortly to discuss my concerns and ask what they can do to earn my support. It will be *amazing* - the first time a presidential candidate has come to California for any reason besides fundraising off the millionaires in Hollywood and Silicon valley.
Do you think we can talk about forest management or flood control? Maybe how to transition, Chevron, our states largest private employer away from fossil fuel production without destroying the economy in the central valley. Maybe we could make sure that California growers get included in the next Farm Bill, or maybe help with funding for the first high speed rail line in the US.
Too much to ask? Ok, how about just a plan to ensure women's health care rights in all 50 states or a firm plan to meet the US obligations under the Paris Climate agreement.
You want to know the plan, Voter Abstention Boy? Here's the plan:
The plan was that fifty years ago, long before your selfish ass was even born, Democrats worked their asses off to achieve the Roe. v. Wade decision, which saved millions of women from cruelty and death from generations.
All YOU had to do was get off your couch and vote, one time, in 2016, to save SCOTUS for probably another 50 years.
@antares@qoto.org
However, in 2016, you didn't give a shit about women, or Black people, or LGBTQ people, or anyone except yourself and your own little preening tantrum.
So now, the rights and the very lives of all of those vulnerable communities depend on the hundreds of laws that Democrats have enacted, and continue to enact every day, to protect them. The state and federal funds that are directed to help them. The DOJ and state attorney general actions that protect their rights in court.
You hate both parties, Voter Abstention Boy? You don't see a reason to vote for either of them?
The Republicans forced Nicole Blackmon of Nashville, TN to spent 32 hours in labor that nearly killed her, before giving birth to a dead baby with its guts hanging outside of its abdomen. Women in blue states don't have to go through that, because the people there, unlike you, care enough about other human beings to color in a bubble on a fucking ballot every two years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/12/abortion-rights-lawsuit-medical-care/
How about enslaving Black people, @antares? Are you pro, anti, or "don't really care"?
Right now, in Florida, parents are dropping off their beloved little Black babies in classrooms where they are taught that enslaving people who look like them was a good thing.
Why? Because people like you, @anteres@qoto.org, don't give a shit. Republicans do that shit to children, Democrats don't, and you don't care one way or the other.
https://newrepublic.com/post/175245/florida-opposing-viewpoints-slavery-ap-african-american-studies
@antares @barney
It'll be awhile.. we first, *checks notes*...need to "assemble a team".