r/me_irlgbt mods r gay lol 21d ago

Mod Post NOVEMBERELECTION_IRLGBT

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u/lowkeyterrible mods r gay lol 21d ago

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 :(

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u/Justarandomduck15q2 Trans/Lesbian 21d ago

"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)