I know there's voter apathy in the US but I am begging you do NOT let trump back in, do not even risk it. now that he's immune he will fuckin kill you
americans have this tendency to go "oh well, we deserve it" out of some weird combination of believing themselves to be priveliged simply for living in the US or some sense of white guilt where applicable but seriously you owe it to yourselves not to let trump back in. you don't deserve what he'd do to you, no matter how much you think you do
hi, southern european country who lived through the literal dictionary definition version of fascism here:
please vote biden
"well biden is supporting genocidal states and he's too old and we can't just vote blue no matter who and" at this point i don't give a shit
the choice is between the united states as it always sucked or a significant chance you're going to have the same awkward discussions with your grandchildren that i had with my grandfather, centered around a topic that starts with "how could you have let that happen"
yes, the dems are garbage, yes, the united states is awful, yes, biden has done good in his term but there's a lot that won't be able to be achieved with him in office
the alternative might literally be you don't get to vote anymore
and whatever the united states do, the rest of the world has to follow
Also, dual US/French citizen living in Germany here - I understand many people have been realizing to what extent the US is involved in making the world hell for people abroad, and I need them in turn to understand that opting out of this election will only make that quantifiably WORSE. We know this because we've seen it! We've witnessed the impact of US foreign policy our entire lives in ways that people in the US, for reasons often beyond their control, have not. And we were all there when 45 was president the first time! It's objectively worse for everyone if the de facto leader of the white supremacist Christian fundamentalists has a second go of it in Washington with a servile Supreme Court and Congress in tow!
i Posted on Twitter, but as someone who lives in one of the few unrepresented districts in the US, here are my thoughts:
please fucking vote
at bare minimum
not all of us can get out in the streets
i know the lesser of two evils is still evil, but i want to live for a few more years without having to leave my home in DC
please vote, for biden, i know it sucks, but please
vote downballot too!!!
i know i might get comments like 'well you're condoning genocide' or 'both parties are the same' rhetoric
my priority rn is surviving four more years as a disabled trans person
my priority is survival. it'll still be corporate, but at least I'm less likely to be put in a camp
yes electoralism won't save us, yes mutual aid is important
BUT IT LITERALLY TAKES maybe an hour or two out of your day to fill out a piece of paper
like, harm reduction is a thing , why not do something hopefully relatively easy while working on the hard things??
yes, voter suppression is real and not everyone gets time off to vote but for those who can there's not much of an excuse rn
I'm fucking terrified of losing the home I've built in a safe place with my partner. i can't lose that
call me a bad leftist, call me a class traitor, i know I'm luckier than most
but it's all so damn tenuous and with this new tentative diagnosis it's like I'm on a razor's edge with keeping things together
so that's my piece, I've said it, i don't Post much but hell, please