I’ve noticed a lot of posts asking how we’re going to vote, and people coming in trying to shame people for not voting for Biden, or any candidate in the general election at all.

So I’m curious and, asking in good faith, want to know - what will make you stop voting for Biden?

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    8 months ago

    Him being worse than the alternative. Electoralism won’t fix anything, though…

    As a person living in Alabama, I think my efforts are best spent on trying to get ANYONE but Tuberville elected for our military members but that election isn’t until '26

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          It is going to happen in the next 20 years.

          Is guaranteed at this point due to how unhinged congress and the white house are progressively becoming. Is going to be necessary for the US to continue to exist, the Joint Chiefs are all extremely well educated in history (many have history PhDs) and are professional bureaucrats with the very real power to intervene with force if it comes down it. Unlike US political leadership who have all started to believe the propaganzied version of history the US pumps out for the masses, the very top brass at the Pentagon all are true believers with a sober deep historical understanding of empires stretching back to Rome. I remember during the Trump years how surprised both Democrats and Republicans were when they put on show-hearings grilling various top US military leadership who kept responding with statements about having read the full works of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and countless other historical figures.

          It won’t be a communist revolution or even a rightwing military coup but will be to prevent the balkanization of the US while ensuring the liberal order and pax americana can continue in some form even if US political leadership are too propaganzied to continue running the empire.

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            I remember during the Trump years how surprised both Democrats and Republicans were when they put on show-hearings grilling various top US military leadership who kept responding with statements about having read the full works of Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and countless other historical figures.

            Word. The scariest people in the world are fash and adjacent who have read socialist theory, understand it, and use that understanding for evil.

            It won’t be a communist revolution or even a rightwing military coup but will be to prevent the balkanization of the US while ensuring the liberal order and pax americana can continue in some form even if US political leadership are too propaganzied to continue running the empire.

            The POTUS gets marched in to a dark room, the lights come up to reveal the Joint Chiefs and instead of a video from the Grassy Knoll it’s a live feed of a predator drone circling the oval office.

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            This makes sense because unlike the kabuki theater that is US politics, they are part of the security state that actually runs the country, so they have not completely drunk their own kool-aid and do research on their enemies. However, the rot will eventually seep to them as well.

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      8 months ago

      Why would you vote against tuberville he’s unironiclly done more to stop American imperialism than anyone else in my lifetime.