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‘Like choosing between a hedgehog and a porcupine’: US braces for presidential election no one wants
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2024
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I don't see it that way.
one candidate wants to ensure the continued operation of democracy.
one candidate wants to be a dictator and inflict the american government on his perceived enemies and the enemies of his benefactors and cult members.
this is not a hard choice in my opinion.
Our baselines are so low
One candidate wants to ensure the perpetuity of the existing corruption in the system... and democracy.
The other is an angry orange man-child with tiny hands and an authoritarian complex that wants to be the next dictator of the world.
So yeah, I agree, it's a no brainer.
One candidate is funding genocide.
One former president killed 1,000,000 of his own people by sitting on his ass and downplaying the risk of infection while hundreds of thousands died under his watch in 2020. By the time he left office, it was far too late to contain the damage; we were well on our way to one million being dead.
He doesn't give a fuck about anyone. This isn't an election to sit out over a single issue; this election could determine whether Russia attacks Europe and China attacks Taiwan if Ukraine falls and the former president is re-elected.
If it's so important you'd think he'd stop funding genocide.