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  • giuggo [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I'm not going to call somebody a lib over it, but honestly the people saying it's mostly privileged white dudes who are abandoning the Biden shit does bother me. I'm not white, sure as hell not rich and by all measures would be tossed in whatever camp they'd make if the time ever came along with nearly everyone I know, but that kinda stuff has always felt like internet melodrama to me. Like I know that at my worst points when I couldn't even really screw around on websites like this neither I or anyone around me gave a shit about people like Biden and it would just feel like bullshit if Biden voters thought they were championing me somehow. We know statistically it's the people in the worst positions that think none of this matters and don't vote and anecdotally that has always been my experience.

    If someone thinks Biden will legitimately help them, then yeah, go for it. I don't really have a problem with that as much as the framing of all this as a broader last ditch effort or something when most of the people who really would die from anything Trump or Biden might do are already completely alienated from the electoral game to begin with.

    • Biggay [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      honestly the people saying it’s mostly privileged white dudes who are abandoning the Biden shit does bother me. I’m not white, sure as hell not rich and by all measures would be tossed in whatever camp they’d make if the time ever came along with nearly everyone I know, but that kinda stuff has always felt like internet melodrama to me.

      This. Doing vote-shaming shit like this is stupid, it doesnt practice solidarity and compassion, and it makes you look unserious to anybody who isnt steeped in left politics.