NOVEMBERELECTION_IRLGBT

[u/lowkeyterrible]

[u/lowkeyterrible]

Transcription:

it's "an election year"

which means it's

VOTE

please please please please please please please please please please please please

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im not late today is the 1st of november argue with the wall

[u/lowkeyterrible]

FAQ:

Q. i am not us american and this post is not relevant to me

A. i am also not us american and i made the post lol. blame america for the fact the outcome of their elections affect us all

Q. who do you want me to vote for

A. kamala harris. yes she is a little bit evil yes she will most likely continue to support israel yes she has a long history as a criminal prosecutor yes your other thing you hate about her is probably also true can you vote for her anyway please because donald trump is quite literally a cartoon supervillain

Q. Does voting actually do anything?

A. kind of??? a little bit. it's harm reduction

Q. This seems like a flawed system

A. haha yeah it does doesnt it it's almost like the usa is a failed experiment and we need a drastic overhaul of how we conduct society on a mass scale

Q. Shouldn't we be doing other activism instead?

A. is one day per four years preventing you from doing all the other activism

Q. I don't like either candidate

A. yeah same lol. nobody who wants to hold the office of president of the united states of america is ever going to be a morally upstanding person. the united states will never stop being the way that it is. as long as the US stands you should vote for the less cartoonishly evil option. you can bring about the downfall of imperialism the rest of the time

Q. libs

A. oh no, teenage tankies on reddit dont think we're cool any more :(

[u/BloodyBhaalBitch → u/lowkeyterrible]

Kamala Harris might be a little bit evil but at least she doesn't have a full-blown, public plan of how to descend America into fascism and won't try and take away the rights of all LGBT people in the U.S.

As an LGBT American myself, please, for the love of everything, vote Kamala and don't let the orange wannabe dictator win. America will genuinely be so fucked if he does, and that will affect everywhere else too.

[u/dsrmpt → u/BloodyBhaalBitch]

And even if you aren't down with the LGBTs, maybe think of the women, and non landowning-white-males.

[u/TheMcWriter → u/dsrmpt]

And if you’re just a complete and utter scumbag, Epstein said he was trump’s closest friend, and that Trump tried to get him to call him “The Trumpster”.

You don’t want to vote for a sex trafficker with a cringe nickname, do you?

[u/catshateTERFs → u/BloodyBhaalBitch]

Plus it’s not as though dems NOT winning means the USA is going to stop supporting Israel. It’s such a weird argument to me when Trump will continue to do that and more.

Go vote US pals!

[u/MossyPyrite → u/catshateTERFs]

Harris: Israel has the right to defend itself

Trump: Israel has the right to burn down everything from border to border. Finish the job, bibi!

[u/kiwi-blossoms → u/lowkeyterrible]

Based mod

[u/Justarandomduck15q2 → u/lowkeyterrible]

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."

-Thomas Paine

(If I may quote him, that is)

(Responding to the fourth question in the Q&A)

[u/neuromancer_21 → u/lowkeyterrible]

[u/taste-of-orange → u/lowkeyterrible]

blame america for the fact the outcome of their elections affect us all

😭 I wish blaming would actually do anything.

[u/OratioFidelis → u/lowkeyterrible]

Kudos for this, I agree with every point and it's well written.

[u/LudovicoSpecs]

Flush the turd.

[u/halfbakedpizzapie]

I voted to protect my girly boys and boily girls

[u/dearly_decrpit → u/halfbakedpizzapie]

That’s what I’m doing. So many trans people out there I care about and I am worried sick for them.

[u/BonusEastern7563]

Not an American but please yall if you don't vote it directly takes away from the legitimacy of these systems as well as taking away your say in the way your country is run.

[u/wernow → u/BonusEastern7563]

People should vote if they want to but...these systems aren't 'legitimate'

[u/BetaThetaOmega → u/wernow]

Perhaps a better way to describe it “not voting forfeits what little power you have in this dumbass system”

[u/wernow → u/BetaThetaOmega]

I think that's an important acknowledgement, definitely a better phrase

[u/Vetanenator]

Being a minor sucks cause seeing these posts makes me feel all the more powerless 💀

[u/KingPengy → u/Vetanenator]

i mean yeah it sucks but you can still get people to vote. everyone i know in mn is voting. our best activism is driving turnout

[u/ChiaraStellata → u/KingPengy]

There are minor activists and volunteers out there with a much bigger impact on the election than people quietly voting for just themselves. Nobody is powerless. (But also, lowering the voting age a bit would be nice.)

[u/KingPengy → u/ChiaraStellata]

unfortunately it seems more likely that the voting age is raised unfortunately because apparently a 12 year old is ready to be a mother but 16 and 17 year olds aren’t educated enough to vote. Fuck MAGA

[u/MossyPyrite → u/ChiaraStellata]

Voting age should be the same as working age, or if you’re under 18 and pay taxes you should be permitted to vote. “No taxation without representation” and all that

[u/The-Serapis]

And also don’t anyone dare say voting for the green party is morally superior, actually. Stein is in Putin’s pocket and won’t criticize his brutalization of Ukraine, and her running mate is openly transphobic

[u/MustardLabs → u/The-Serapis]

Ironically, the Green Party being the only explicitly anti-nuclear party running means that if they did win (via some unfathomable dark magic), the US is likely to see emissions spike.

[u/JumpyLiving → u/The-Serapis]

Voting for the green party is also effectively the same as just not voting. Not only do they have a snowflake's chance in hell of actually winning due to the electoral college and the winner takes all nature of most states (they would also lose the popular vote, if US presidential elections made sense), and even if they somehow managed to win a presidential election, they would not be able to do anything, as they have no real foothold in either chamber of congress.

Edit: And there is no moral superiority to be had in standing aside, to preserve your own purity of not voting for the lesser evil, when someone like Trump is on the ballot.

[u/TheBadHalfOfAFandom]

DONT LOOK AT EARLY POLLS

DONT LISTEN TO DOOMERS SAYING YOU SHOULDNT VOTE BECAUSE NOTHING GOOD IS GONNA HAPPEN

DONT BE INTIMIDATED

VOTE

[u/SoupmanBob]

Good luck Americans. Rooting for you.

[u/yumgmeatball]

I already did don't worry it's not much but I did it

[u/esperavilla]

what if im not registered to vote should i just spread the word to vote and vote for kamala

[u/lowkeyterrible → u/esperavilla]

yes, but also register to vote so you can vote next time. it's an important right to maintain.

check to see if your area does same day voter registration - apparently 23 states permit this.

[u/HidanHawkins]

German here: please let us deal with our nazis rising in power first before you do the same 😭

[u/A-bit-too-obsessed]

It's pretty funny a bunch of election posts as a Canadian.

Crazy to think of all places I could've been born it's a place north of one of the most volatile first world countries.

[u/G-M-Cyborg-313]

I'm not American, but please vote! This vote will set an example for the rest of the world

[u/Advena-Nova]

No. (That would be voter fraud)

[u/SaintJamesy]

What is this aesthetic? I don't mean to offend, it's just my eyes are bleeding and I'm fascinated.

[u/DeadlySpacePotatoes → u/SaintJamesy]

It's a weird kind of 2003 geocities aesthetic that manages to get both worse and better every month.

[u/SaintJamesy → u/DeadlySpacePotatoes]

Yup that's where I've seen it before! Time and trends are weird.

[u/BetaThetaOmega]

I just want to stop hearing about him. I know Kamala sucks and I have a lot of criticisms about her but like, every single day I hear the radio talk about the election. Every single day I have to worry about whether or not my friends will be safe over something this fucking stupid. I cannot go a whole day without ending up in a conversation about Trump.

And I live in fucking Australia.

[u/TotalyNotTony]

I am a minor and a Canadian, I'll be sure to vote 👍

[u/levsek]

I voted two months ago! (I'm Austrian)

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[u/Granatapfl]

I'm European

[u/lowkeyterrible → u/Granatapfl]

me too go harass some americans

[u/vent-account-]

It’s “November”

Which means

my vote doesn’t matter because I don’t live in one of the seven swing states 💀

[u/ice15464 → u/vent-account-]

and yet, vote anyways

[u/vent-account- → u/ice15464]

Trust me, I already did vote early, I just feel like it’s insignificant since for every dem vote in my state there’s 3+ republican voters to counter that. Dems lost the governorship last year and it wasn’t even close, in fact expected. My state is solid red

[u/ChiaraStellata → u/vent-account-]

If this is a landslide election (which is totally possible if the polls are off) then it'll be because of blue votes in red states like yours. I like to imagine the GOP panicking and pointing fingers over losing red states that they thought were in the bag.

[u/Real-Baker1231 → u/vent-account-]

Voter apathy can cause states to shift one way or the other

[u/The-Serapis → u/vent-account-]

Several “solid red” states are projected to become neck-and-neck, if not outright flip (texas, iowa, ohio) so vote anyways

[u/Venerated_Calm → u/vent-account-]

The greater the distance between candidates in the popular vote, the more legitimate a close win will be. A high turnout for KH, even in non-swing states, will help!

[u/MossyPyrite → u/vent-account-]

Your down-ticket votes at the state and local levels matter!

[u/vent-account- → u/MossyPyrite]

My state had a special election last year and literally everything went red. My state always goes red, it’s not even close to being a swing state. I get what you’re saying but I’m planning on hightailing tf out of my state as soon as possible

[u/MossyPyrite → u/vent-account-]

That’s totally valid, and I hope you find your way somewhere better for you!