You don't even have to vote for anything else (but you should look because it can effect you)
Not to say that everyone that votes for Trump is a Nazi, but we do know who the Nazis are voting for.
I’m a broken record today, but please grab a few hours to phone bank or door knock with us today. Phone banking can be done on your couch, and you won’t feel like a POS if the fascists win and you could’ve spent 2 hours after dinner on a Sunday to secure a few more votes.
For the first time in my life I phone banked for Harris/Walz starting last month. I was expecting to be yelled at by Trumpers but that wasn’t the case. In case anyone is nervous about making the calls, you dont call Trump supporters, you call Dems and Independents to remind them it’s time to vote and how they can get information on voting. I haven’t had any nasty calls yet.
Correct. The calls are very targeted toward helping people correct a ballot that isn’t being counted, or helping / nudging sympathetic voters to get out.
A random volunteer ain’t going to be able to deprogram years of maga propaganda in a 2 minute phone call. Those calls are a waste of time. Turnout calls are more effective.
But how do you get their numbers? Just dial randomly and hang up if the person sounds Republican?
Plus also make sure to encourage and remind any dem leaning people you know to get out and vote. Friends, family, neighbors, etc it makes more of a difference than you might think
Anyone ever have a good experience making or receiving these calls?
The door knocking is definitely more of a positive thing, but I got about 2-3 effective calls in a 2 hour window.
And if you get 50 people in a phone bank, that can translate to 100 ballots cured and or people at the polls.
And when you’re talking about elections that are won by hundreds of votes, that phone time matters.
I would volunteer for a campaign (or even just donate) in a heartbeat... but it's unethical... I'm one of our nation's poor, underpaid and overworked local news media staffers. To be clear, I'm not a journalist, but the rules preventing any appearance of impropriety apply to me as well. I can't give up my job to work pro bono on campaigns (and it's dubious for me to donate). I can't have the journalists I work with appear to have any kind of hand on this (or any) election.
I beg you, please vote for Harris/Walz... that's my personal opinion which does not reflect the stance or opinions of my employer or any of our clients/sponsors... which include the Donald Trump for President 2024 campaign and it's affiliated PAC's (honestly it's wild having the fucking Trump campaign being both the reason I cannot but barely afford my bills and the thing getting me close to paying them). Seriously, the years 2016 to 2020 were a living hell for us working in local news. Fear of constant threats if we depicted "dear leader" in any light other than brilliant magnificence. How dare we report on the things Trump said and did if it looked bad in any way. Seriously... it was the most stressed I've been in my entire life and I'm a queer atheist living in the deep south. Also, no, I'm not moving... all my stuff and most of my friends are here.
Why is everyone waiting for the perfect choice that will never come?
I'm thinking through the last half dozen presidents and I don't see how Kamala is far worse than any of them, that people are making comments like this
Lots of reasons, really. Some of them are disenfranchised with the system, some of them are probably part of a Russian campaign, and some of them are just idiots.
December edit for clarification: while I would have preferred the country didn't shift towards accelerated corruption under Trump, the people who are disenfranchised with the options available in the two-party system had an entirely valid reason to be.
And probably you should look at your ballot and vote for democratic people like Democratic representatives or local government on the democratic party. When you do that, next election will be easier to win by the Democrats. That way we can take a breather and finally abolish the stupid electoral college. It's 2024, we can easily vote by phone 🤳. Give people a nice moth to vote on....like July maybe? So they can take a free day to vote when there are no hurricanes or snow pack or whatever bullshit happens in October. And then change over to a new government the next month.
Great in theory, but there are too many people who fellate the god of tradition while stroking the hard-on of American exceptionalism and are unwilling to look at any other example of functioning government.
Great in theory, but there are too many people
This is defeatism and giving up before you even try.
My state recently started allowing early voting, I voted Saturday. This year a minimum wage raise and an attempted pre-emptive ban of RCV proposition were both on the ballot. That old trope about "if you don't vote you can't complain" is true and we all have to participate and try to make the changes we want.
Honestly, nobody is the best choice! She’s pretty good!
As an anarchist, I too would prefer Nobody for president.
(But given current practical realities, I hope enough of you Americans cote dem to keep the fascists out)
I am voting but I could throw my president vote right in the trash and it'd have the same effect thanks to the electoral college. The local shit I'm voting on will potentially have a bigger impact.
American authocracy at its finest... I agree one should vote, and not for Trump. But this poster is disheartening...
Kamela votes nullify Trump votes, Stein votes are basically the same as not voting at all.
Affect.
Yep. Affect is verb; effect is noun. That's how I remember. Editing text is a major part of my job, and I still sometimes have to step back and use the rule.
And just to head them off, there's exceptions to rules and I just don't care about them.
Best and also only choice to beat a Nazi
If Kamela wins, she MUST reorganize the US political system. She'll be the no limits president, Supreme Court said so, she can do whatever she wants.
Cut the shit with the electoral college. Just direct voting
No more winner takes all. The US needs 30 political parties, not two
Get rid of unlimited terms for any government office, especially for the supreme Court
Just three basic things, but the real list is much, much longer.
If Trump wins then it doesn't matter, you'll be living in a dictatorship for the rest of your miserable lives..
None of those things is within the authority of the President to do.
As we've seen by now, just about anything is in the authority of the president if the president simply says "fuck you, do it. Please."
Good stuff, but I dont see that she is a reformer type of politician.
I hate living in a swing state. The campaign ads I've gotten this year are fucking insane. I keep telling myself "it'll be over soon." Also and yes, yes, yes, I voted for harm reduction/prevention... can I get an early break from all the mailers, texts, emails, and ads?
Yep. While only a small portion of republicans are nazis, all nazis sure vote for republican in these elections.
Jill Stein?
Claudia de la Cruz?
For fucks sake. Everyone, just vote for a candidate that best represents you, not to cancel another vote. Good luck out there.
No reason to vote for militarized borders, death to the planet, increased police violence and on and on which is what both the democrats and republicans will produce. Organize outside of electoralism.
Our fascist is better than their fascist!
only Vote Harris because a Trump vote means fascism even though getting corralled into only one choice is fascism too?
when both choices are fascists only chance is riots
US has had plenty it just needs another one
This comment is evidence that the Russian version of ChatGPT doesn't have a definition for fascism.
Just saying there is no Russian version, it's just ChatGPT, the Russians are using ChatGPT for information warfare against the West.
Wouldnt having only one choice be closer to authoritarianism in general, not fascism specifically?
https://www.thoughtco.com/totalitarianism-authoritarianism-fascism-4147699
hard to tell them apart these days but yes
Once you're an authoritarian helping genocide I don't think you need to bust out the 14 pillars, but Harris isn't an authoritarian in a useful sense of the word.
She's just ultimately working for the oligarchy, which is an aspect of government you can not remove from liberalism.
I believe I already asked you this and you refused to answer, but in case I didn't... this is the Indiana ballot. No write-ins. A candidate has to officially declare write-in status.
Who should Hoosiers vote for out of those four choices? Those are their only choices.
This is the saddest state of affairs ever. When your campaign is “it could be worse” it’s an insult to the working classes intelligence.
But that's not the campaign. This is citizens telling other citizens that not casting a vote IS voting - for the obviously worse candidate.
Which you guys have been doing for decades and it has resulted in leftists NEVER getting anything they want.
Honest question...
How is it only and always a vote for the worst candidate, and not a vote for the better candidate? Like, couldn't Republicans also argue that by not voting, you're actually voting for Harris? From an objective standpoint, who would be correct?
The “it could be worse” is “US is having a president who’s fine with using military action against his political opponents”, aka dictatorship.
Not just military action. Vigilantism and pardons. I'm waiting for him to make it clear that if you're going to murder someone who opposes Trump, make sure to transport them across state lines, so that it's a federal crime that he can pardon you for.
No, I’d say it’s exactly what we deserve.
Imagine if we had to vote for a national ice cream flavor. It would probably end up being pretty unpalatable for most people, but it’s the only one we can get even a plurality of people to vote for.
That's a factor of our first-past-the-post system. We end up having to strategically vote against the ice cream we don't want instead of for the ice cream we do want.
Nah it's super easy. Moose tracks 100%
It would be vanilla vs literal shit. Everyone would complain about how boring vanilla is. The news would talk about how the literal shit doesn't smell as bad as you'd think and complain that the vanilla ice cream isn't even nutritious.
Shit would win with 48% of the vote.
TAKE THE FUCKING VANILLA!
It's a sad state of affairs when a politician that cares about her country isn't enough to get people to vote against a literal fascist who fantasizes about being a dictator.
God Americans are easily propagandized.
They've drank the Koolaid for a better dystopia. It's been forcefed to the nation.
I'll say it. It's fascism. It's been fascism for a long time. People who vote for fascism are fascists.
I did some door knocking with Pence's former national security advisor last night and got to shoot the shit with her. Never thought I would be doing that.
Suffice to say, she is firmly in the camp of "he's a fascist," and according to her, what he says behind close doors is even scarier.
Also, she claims (like other Trump officials) that he doesn't give 2 shits about his voters behind closed doors. He views them as plebs to con that so he can accumulate more wealth and more power.
Assuming this is true, why didn't she publicly say any of this right after Biden came to power?
I trust Jesus.
Fascism is correct, but Nazism is more accurate.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/fascism/Varieties-of-fascism
Yeah. Everyone who votes for Trump absolutely is a Nazi. They’re supporting Orange Hitler.
100% true, although either way we're voting in someone who says they will assist in further war crimes. But I guess at least we arent All fascists. So we've got that going for us.
The only war crimes you care about are the ones you can use to get fascism elected.