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"Harris/Walz obviously" gets my nod

100's of replies at this point and it's just so boring and spineless, give me a real challenge come on. Way to go, libs of bsky. You're totally not an echo chamber.

All replies so far (minus one) have proven me no one really wants to have a honest conversation, it's just a team sport and if you don't side with them they want you dead. Being hostile is not gonna prove your point.

"Voting isn't marriage, it's public transport" Even if you think both options suck, you still need to pick one to get closer to your final destination, "deserving" or not.

Well there's two options. You can't get neither. Voting this year may be desperately pulling on the emergency brake on the regression rather than making progress, but you have to pull that brake. If the choice is between shitty due to inaction and actively taking your rights, that's clear imo.

So the alternative to "wishing for the best" is to let the fascist win, who has said he wants Netanyahu to "finish the job" of the genocide? I'd rather go with trying. Not to mention what's at stake for trans and other marginalized folks in this country, whom we shouldn't throw under the bus.

That's not what voting is, and if there's a non-voting method that frees Palestine that *works* you would've done it by now, or would be doing that instead of whining online about all you're not currently doing.

Yes, both support Israel, but one also supports covert genocide against queer people, and immigrants, and wants women's rights to be rolled back decades. I'm sure it's nice to be in a privileged enough position for those to not affect you, but sticking your head in the sand like this is just selfish

Do you think not voting will stop the genocide in Gaza?

No, she did not say that.

Which is less than actively trying to have them killed. And that’s one of a million issues. Refusing to vote against the greater evil because there’s no perfect option is masturbatory.

Based

Oh yeah everything is the trolley problem. The entire point of the trolley problem is analysing your morals. And your morals suck. Keep hallucinating that there's a way out of this, there's not.

I cannot condone anyone being pro genocide. Supporting a pro genocide candidate makes you pro genocide by fact of itself. It's vulgar, inhumane, and unamerican.

@paulge.bsky.social

Amen brother

Him being a convicted felon isn't the problem - him being a racist, sexist, probably-fascist convicted sex offender whose main election goal is to cripple the world's largest economy is the problem.

Nah, all humans are weird.

Yeah, we're not humans. Just aliens pretending. - Mark Wethesy, Nov. 3, 2024

In germany, there's also too many who think we should try another fascist. Maybe this time it'll br better. So no, not just the US.

Brazil is weird as well We had to choose between a former economy minister who was a professor in one of the country's most renowned colleges and a former military captain who was discharged from service for misconduct and then became a congressman who did nothing for 27 years Tough choice

We are so fucked.

That's a weird position to hold, but you do you, I won't be able to change it, I'm afraid.

Counterpoint: Yes, they should. One example for why: Lots of convicted felons are Blank people who got convicted because they exist in a racist society in an unfair fascistoid justice system.

"I'm privileged enough to not care about Trump's war on every kind of minority, so will allow trans people, or gay people, or immigrants, or women, to suffer needlessly for years to prove I'm somehow morally superior to someone who doesn't do that"

Hey, guess what trans people think about how you should vote? Are your feelings and moral pompousness more important than their lives?

“When the only choice is between more genocide and less genocide, refusing to choose is self-centered virtue signaling guaranteed to have no effect at all in a brokered first-past-the-post election.” You don’t have a good choice. It’s not available to you. This is a material condition.

I honestly laugh at the irony of Trump surviving an assassination only to lost to the 1st Woman of Color Female President

Why? Didn't Zionists almost shut down Internet Archive a few weeks ago?

In my area, as soon as a harris sign is on public proterty trump signs block, and multiply to spamming numbers.

Yeah, it's been a big problem in the US. To to the point that some people have been boobytrapping the signs, such as with glitter or tracking devices or whatnot.

Had mine stolen from my yard Halloween night! Fortunately I'd bought backups.

Yeah sign theft is the kind of thing you can expect when you try to get a felon elected president... But didn't worry the Trump supporters doing it have signs that say "Trump safety, Harris crime." With out a hint of irony, cause Fox news won't tell them what irony is.

Well done Randall. Well done indeed.

Near him is a small stone frog. As a surprise a friend left us another small frog. One day I found 3 of them gathered there together: the 3rd was real. It disrupted all my beliefs about Nature and my sense that there must be 10 ways a real frog could tell they were not kindred creatures. Art!

I like the frog.

alright everyone, time to get on board the Harris train

I would not expect anything less Randall.

Hell yeah

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i forgot there s a real candidate called harris and i thought u meant harris bomberguy

Sad that we’ve lowered the bar to where “doesn’t seem evil” is good enough reason to vote for a candidate. 😬

I don't like either of them (they are politicians) but they are clearly the best candidates

The bar is so low

The other guy looks like his Edgar suit is rotting right off him.

What other sign are you expecting?

No thanks, not a huge Trump fan but also not voting for the dumb twat Kamala. She’s a snake, if she wins just watch her run the country farther into the ground than that the old clown Biden did.

genocide bad actually

American presidential candidate.

There was never any doubt. Let's fuckin go.

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I don’t get it

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Ya think?

Republickkkans after looking at every XKCD comic about science, global warming, biology, women & girl characters being really well educated & knowledgeable in their scientific & mathematical fields: when did XKCD get so political?? 🤪

this is a good sign

I instinctively scrolled down and as I did, wondered why I was feeling weird. I realized I did that out of habit to find the hate speech and Nazis. To know thine enemy and get a small rage high. But I didn’t get it, since the comments are normal. …goddammit I might actually like Bluesky.

But still just enough

It's the logical choice.

Bro waited until nov 3 for his endorsement

I wouldn't recommend it.

Got reminded of xkcd.com/1756/ Hopefully better luck this time.

so real !!!! <333 if trump gets elected i will cry

It really can't be understated, can it?

Ok so what's ur plan?

Yep! She’s a bad person. She’s also the least bad of two mandatory options. Refusing to choose between a shit sandwich and a booger sandwich when you’re gonna be force-fed one of them is masturbation. She should have done better. She didn’t. This is what we got. Womp.

fascist (girlboss) vs fascist (rapist)

For context. In my ttrp setting and larp playbook. Furries ( presented in a grity middle earth scifi setting ) are found to be in every configuration, centaurn w/wo hooves and to be clear not supper funny ones like bug and bear, but 2legs 4legs, Mans Face. Multianimals are "mockeries" not taurn.

Bugs are either extraplaner or from Speaker not Fara, with Nohands comes all the movement benefits in combat but lets you be battlecats that talk. etc

And it has no funny alt text.

Well, some things are pretty simple.

its nuts to think this election cycle there isnt a single person who i would count as a "good person" that hasnt said this. im so used to a few breaking and going for the other side but this year its been pure lock step. she may not be the best candidate but i hope she wins.

If you find out, the rest of the world would like to know. Everyone outside the US borders is shaking their head.

i wonder what explain xkcd is going to put for this comic

@xkcd.com is pro-genocide now??

I feel like this is a sign, but I'm not sure.

trumpie has a liking for Uneducated Republican knuckle Dragging Numbnuts Rednecks. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

It's why the EU27 use Proportional Representation. A true democracy of 27 independent Sovereign Countries 🇮🇪🇪🇺

If Harris is elected. Will her Cabinet. Be filled with competent people. Or will they be like trumpies Cabinet afraid to call him out for being incompetent. 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Computes.

Damned*

there truly is an xkcd for everything

I'm not American and don't care either way, but I will enjoy watching the losing side light their torches.

*NYT voice* but what about your riche- I mean, your journalistic independence?

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Appreciate you.

I wonder if I do want to see the reactions to this in the weird place.

unfortunate how this turned out

Man fuck you. Free Palestine.