• mossy_
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    10 days ago

    to all of you wonderful people out there posting about how horrible the democrats are on the eve of a monumental election, I’d like to remind you that voting day is not the day to be nitpicking. If this stuff bothers you (and it does me too), you have 364 other days to grab a gun.

    Voting day is about choosing the lesser evil for just a couple damn hours, and if you think the republicans would be any better for you, I have a beach house in Idaho for sale.

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      10 days ago

      if your options are “person who wants to kill you” and “person who wants to kill you”, you are going lose no matter what

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        10 days ago

        I’m thinking… $990,000 is my asking price. it really is such a beautiful view

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          9 days ago

          Nooo my voterino!!! Vote blue no matter who!!!

          *minutes pass*

          makes fun of the death of a teenager

          Yeah, that tracks for you lot.

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            Something about these people makes me want to fucking, just, I can’t say what I want to do.

            I remember 2 years ago when I was speaking up about Palestine that the same fucking types of liberals were talking about how they’d love to hear about people like us getting raped to death in a male prison because we supported the conservatives (aka. criticized the liberal policy of genocide). I remember it. Someone said it to my fucking face. They’re snakes, literal vipers. They just pretend to be allies. Fuck their votes. They’re actually just snakes, like if they believed it was the lesser evil they wouldn’t be posting blue hearts everywhere. They just switch up their mask and act all pained about the situation to fucking manipulate us. It fucking sickens me, they don’t give a shit, I’m pretty sure they actually like that trans people feel forced to support liberals out of fear.

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              They think that LGBT people are either captive or disposable.

              “Who cares what I say, those rubes will vote for me anyway because I want them to suffer in a more polite way!”

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            makes fun of the death of a teenager

            i couldn’t make heads or tails of their comment, is that what was going on? now i’m not sure if i want dig around for more details or remain in the dark for the sake of my own mental health :/

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              Honestly no idea whatbthe 900k part is, probably something messef up but…

              CW: Suicide mention

              “It’s a beautiful view” part is to me an identifiable anti-trans dogwhistle/euphemism quoting the last words of a young trans girl who tragically took her own life :(

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                wait what?? I wasn’t trying to quote a dogwhistle, just riffing on “selling a beach house in Idaho” cause I figured noone had read what I said anyway

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              https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Idaho_in_United_States.svg/1280px-Idaho_in_United_States.svg.png

              what I meant was that if someone believed “if I have problems with the political climate, I should roll over and give up”, then they’re probably out of touch with reality enough to be willing to buy oceanfront property in a state with no connection to the ocean.

              I respect trans people, and am willing and ready to fight for trans rights, but doing nothing on voting day is almost as bad as voting for the fascists.

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      10 days ago

      I would like to remind you that if you vote for genocide, you don’t deserve to have your democracy saved. You’ve proven yourself too irresponsible to handle the franchise.

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      This message brought to you by the moral cowards happy to cosign on a genocide as long as they can go back to brunch after.

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      Its evident the democrats are bad, and getting worse with trans rights and we must point that out. I would vote democrat if i was in the US, but you cant blame any trans person/any other minority for not voting for the democrats given this. Saying “vote for the lesser evil” isnt going to change anyones minds. The only thing that will, is a change on the democrats position, which is how a democracy is meant to function.

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        The lesser evil is becoming greater each time they use this tactic. Palestine, immigrants, now trans people, but we gotta still support Democrats, I guess, because they’re killing us slower than the Republicans.

        You sily billy, you don’t understand the trolley problem. If you don’t support the party that kills 15% less people then you’re responsible for killing those extra people! All we can do is pull the lever, there is no other option. You’ve just gotta lie down on the lesser evil track and take one for the team to delay fascism.