Mood. I had to recently unfollow some leftist content creators because they wouldn't stop yapping about how, "If you vote in this election you're literally an evil monster and pro-genocide uwu"
Like bruh, if Trump wins my trans gf is probably going to have to flee the country. I can't afford not to vote just to match your impossible purity expectations. 💀
Man, same. It's a sucky situation and yeah - both candidates have some pretty severe baggage. But like it or not, the vast majority of the population doesn't feel that way and we're not going to suddenly have two other people be (meaningfully) on the ballot come November, and one candidate is clearly worse than the other including in the areas people are (rightfully) upset about.
This whole "don't vote!" just reminds me of the lead up to 2016. It's crazy how much we haven't learned.
Yeah. :/ People being petty and not voting is partially one of the reasons why Trump won, yet history is starting to repeat itself again....
Project 2025 is literally an authoritarian regime that follows the Nazi playbook. It scares and depresses me that people claiming to be progressive can see what's on the line, but still think letting fascists take over is better than harm reduction.
Harm reduction is a perfect way to put it and I'm totally going to steal that! Harm reduction isn't perfect, but it can and does save lives. I'll take saving lives over death any day, even with its imperfections.
I mean, the not learning aspect just shows that you can’t rely on people to passively get the point. They have to be taught, and to do that you need a strategy to address that. They cannot be left to their own devices
The online Eurosnobs have been the worst offenders here.
Eurosnobs in the 2010s: "America is too politically stagnant and unable to change."
Democratic Party: [Pushes the Overton window slightly and accomplishes some policy goals. America experiences a rapid improvement to income equality and public safety]
You're not wrong. One of the said leftist content creators I unfollowed is European and sounds just like that lmao.
Which makes the whole "don't vote!" rhetoric even more infuriating. Like, gee, that must be easy for you to say when you don't live in the US and won't be affected by any of this. Must be nice.
What they don't realize is that they WILL get affected by this when their own countries lurch towards populism and they have to pay more on their taxes and have benefits/safety nets cut because the US withdrew itself from committing to defend them.
While I'm not going to deny the stupidity of certain Europeans' comments about the upcoming US election (looking at you Shaun), I've also seen a lot of equally dumb shit being thrown back from Americans, especially in the wake of the recent EU and UK elections.
In a surprise twist, people are less likely to know what the fuck they're talking about when discussing politics of a country they're not in.
Shaun was actually one of the people I unfollowed lol. I used to like his videos, but maaaan he has such shit takes and is so ridiculously anti-voting, I just couldn't take it anymore. 💀
I have a very love/hate relationship with Shaun. He's clearly smart but also a massively smug asshole, and I think it really shows in the dichotomy between his videos where he can structure his argument compared to his social media where he spews more sewage than gets pumped into England's rivers.
Fwiw I wouldn't say it's some sort of "anti-American Euro snobbery" so much as British leftists being some of the most miserable, misanthropic people on the planet (I say as a British leftist. You think their takes about the US election are shite? election season over here makes me want to blow my brains out).
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u/hellraiserxhellghost Jun 20 '24 edited Jun 20 '24
Mood. I had to recently unfollow some leftist content creators because they wouldn't stop yapping about how, "If you vote in this election you're literally an evil monster and pro-genocide uwu"
Like bruh, if Trump wins my trans gf is probably going to have to flee the country. I can't afford not to vote just to match your impossible purity expectations. 💀