thank god i live in a state where it will be 100% blue no matter what so i don't need to vote. if i did live in a tossup state i'd probably be convinced to vote for biden simply because he is, albeit not by much, the "lesser of two evils" and i do believe in harm reduction.
eventually biden will just give way to another, probably more sophisticated, fascist in the future. somebody will need to take trump's place, and given that his platform of petty authoritarianism has become the main platform for the republicans i assume they are due to nominate somebody in the future who has similar policies with a more refined and cunning acumen for politics. this cycle will have to peter out eventually. i'm pretty sure that the democrats desire defeat at this point, articulating their noble struggle by constantly being the intentional underdog.
You’re probably way less impacted by Trumps America than the racial minorities, gay people, those seeking abortions, and other marginalized groups that have seen more discrimination since 2017. Very self centered and arrogant to assume your edgy teenager, Accelerationist views are justified when you don’t have to deal with the first order impacts of your actions!
i agree that termi who i think is spanish or something probably is not as hard hit by his policies as those living in america who will suffer under a conservative supreme court for the next 20+ years or whatever. people living in europe are pretty "safe" from international politics because they align themselves with the united states consistently. for nations in the middle east, central america, south america, and east asia which suffer consequences exceeding a stock market change or some stupid trade war (i.e. canada), termi makes a valid point. the hardships faced by people in iraq, syria, iran, afghanistan, etc. supersede anything we could possibly experience here. 500,000+ people died because of a vote cast thousands of miles away, how strange is that? we treat our own citizens with contempt, but
usually we don't slaughter them like we do with foreigners. i don't elevate social problems because "they're our own people," citizenship doesn't influence my interpretation of tragedy. it's just more visible because we live here, and because we live here, we are also morally culpable for what we do across the world. i can't do much to prevent the united kingdom from doing some stupid shit, but i can at least be an activist here.
sidenote: most american conservatives don't even differentiate between iranians/iraqis/syrians whatever. they just see them all as animals. bestial. they don't care if 500,000 of them die because to them their lives amount to that of a chicken. most american liberals are saddened over the 500,000 deaths because it made us look bad.
what myzo/dice/termi are contesting here is how regardless of who we vote, the baseline ideology remains consistent. electoral politics' futility should be apparent to you now. the imf / worldbank will continue dangling massive loans/investment over syria's head in exchange for liberalization policies that facilitated the civil war. we will continue subsidizing our farming industry against provisions of the WTO to force asian countries to become net-import nations because it aids our profits. biden will push for "international cooperation" and stress the importance of these institutions because he belongs to that liberal school of foreign policy. globalization could be a force for good if the wto/wb/imf/un were actually cooperative, instead of tools to open markets or punish countries deemed different.
the electoral system in america is stupid and i'd really like it if we all protest voted in unison and had some massive contested election. until such a movement happens i'll be voting democrat, which is of course incredibly paradoxical, but whatever.