moira

moira, 1 hour ago

@futurebird @jonquass @ehproque for reals. I’ve never got to vote for someone I actually like for President and most certainly never will. I, too, vote to choose my opponent, and can acknowledge less bad is better than more bad.

Speaking more personally, hoping you get the opponent who isn’t actively trying to kill you has been the point of queer voting most of my life. Being able to take an aesthetic position (yes, I’ve peeked further down this thread) means you’re sure you’ll survive no matter who is in power, and we don’t and have never had that - regardless of what some people might pretend.

moira, 1 hour ago

@richpuchalsky @futurebird @jonquass @ehproque And then if you look at actual actions instead of slogans, Biden has walked the US further away from Israeli military support than any other US president since Israel became a US ally. Putting holds and restrictions like he has is unprecedented - not to mention directly going against their wishes with aid and that pier to deliver more aid.

You can either encourage that or you can punish it.

Meanwhile, the Republican party has been saying that Israel should be bombing more, not less, up to and in one particularly evil and stupid case I noted, including nukes.

This, too, you can either reward or punish.

moira, 1 hour ago

@darcher @futurebird @richpuchalsky @jonquass @ehproque We need ranked choice voting for extremely reals. Supporting that at the lowest levels and working up is the most effective way to move towards it, like it is for basically everything political in this country. (And in this case that’s not a dig, that’s just a statement I think is reasonably well grounded in reality.)

moira, 1 hour ago

@futurebird @jonquass @ehproque Not to mention climate change, which I feel I shoud’ve mentioned first.

Trump and the GOP are pledging to do everything they can from day one to end renewables and reward and boost carbon fuels producers - who are, by the way, right about the biggest sources of funding for the fascist movement.

Meanwhile Biden managed to get the biggest carbon-reduction bills ever through a hostile congress, and even then didn’t get all he actually really did try to get.

You want to talk about supporting genocide by voting for Biden, look up who gets destroyed first and worst by climate change and then think about your position some more.