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I wonder what it's like to support a candidate who disqualifies himself by violating the Constitution he once swore to uphold?

The orange insurrectionist fucked around. Let him find out.

And that's the problem I have. If the DNC is willing to suppress their own members, why should I encourage that behavior by doing as I"m told because they're too blind or too arrogant to listen? Trump is the worst. But he's a product of a broken system that democrats are all too happy to perpetuate.

If Trump wins, I blame his fascist followers. But I would be lying if I said that I didn't also blame the DNC for colluding with the GOP in the first place.

I'm registered independent so I don't get a say. I can dig into the options, but last time I might have been onboard with Yang; he seemed sincere. Sanders, though he has issues, would have been a much better choice as well.

If the party elite are blocking meaningful representation within, that's a problem.

He's polling neck and neck with Trump, some polls have him trailing in key states. It's early, granted, but his support of Israel's approach to Palestine suggests that many progressives are at best uncomfortable with him.

Primaries are still coming up, no? Why not push for someone better? You still end up in the same place if you're unsuccessful.

Along the same lines, fielding Biden knowing that he is polling quite low against Trump is making it more likely that Trump wins. There are 49 million registered Democrats. There are almost certainly qualified, principled, charismatic people in that group that would both energize the core and appeal to progressives, independents, and swing voters.

If the Democrats' stubborn pride allows a Trump victory, then we should lay the responsibility at the feet of those who were best positioned to provide a viable candidate who could win.

I've been browsing older Forgotten Realms sourcebooks and the love that the authors put into those is amazing. It hurts to see D&D and the worlds I grew up loving destroyed by a soulless entity that cares only about profit.

Yeah, my partner really likes the art but we're both aware that MtG was just the real world precursor to the current micro-transaction culture.

And you need to take 7 steps back and seriously considered whether you truly believe in democracy... or you value scoring points for "your" team above all else.

But don't take my word for it. Take a look at Biden's polling and tell me again how the reasonable ones are those trying to shove him down the rest of our throats.

Aah, the same old "lesser evil" arguments that put us here in the first place.

Trump is a direct result of this abjectly stupid idea that eating shit every 4 years is necessary because Daddy Blue says so. If he wins, its because the Democrats couldn't be bothered to read the room and select a candidate worthy of the presidency.

And there it is. Not voting for Biden is stamping ones feet. The sheer entitled arrogance. Jesus.

You offer me rusty nails or razor blades and tell me the razor blades are beans. No thanks.

And that's why we have two terrible candidates.

If choices A and B are both bad and team B has full control of who they're fielding, rewarding them for choosing poorly perpetuates the same. If they're too blind or arrogant to see that B is losing them the contest, then that's their own fault.

I'm noting that expecting people to vote for the least bad candidate here is easily rectified by the Dems choosing someone less terrible. The base would vote for a pickle sandwich if it had a blue sticker on it. As such, choosing someone who appeals to swing allies is the right move.

Biden, whatever value he has, does not appear to have that appeal. So if winning is important, Democrats hold the key. Choose someone less repugnant to swing voters.

The Democrats have a membership of millions. If they find someone who isn't objectively a garbage person, I guarantee they win. You'll still see the "must vote blue" crowd vote D because let's be real, they'll do as they're told every time. And you'll also get the votes of the people who believe in a better world.

Win win, but the millions of D voters will continue to sell the line that they are powerless to sway thier own party.

Yep. What's truly disappointing is that the voters in one of those major parties are extremely comfortable being complicit in genocide et al. It is entirely within their power to demand that their own party field someone less terrible... but they do not for reasons that only make sense if one looks at the process as one that values winning over all.

I agree that the system is broken. But the process that favors the two parties need not be used to field terrible candidates. THAT part of the process is 100% the responsibility of those who vote for those parties. If the candidates are terrible, then the blame for that rest solely on their shoulders.

Biden has a terrible history of friendship and collusion with racists, bigots, etc. Currently, he's a genocide apologist. I would LOVE it if the Democrats fielded someone I could get behind. It's not about one issue, it's about asking for a bare minimum level of humanity. "Not a bigoted genocide apologist" should not be a stretch goal.

"Incompetent" is a stretch. No chance of winning, perhaps, but that's only true because the two major parties continue to work together to make it true. Colluding with a fledgling fascist dictator to lock out other competition and then smirking about "wasted votes" maybe be stabard operating procedure but it shouldn't be.

Trump is a monster. Biden is not a good person. Let's kick then both to the curb and agree to support someone who isn't an objectively terrible person.

Except that's not true. Somehow, 23andme missed the almost certainly anomalous activity on thier network that lead to the extraction of 6.9 million users' data. Missing the activity associated with the massive data dump, designing thier system to allow for that? 100% thier fault.

One should not be able to use a set of hacked accounts to dump that much data. That's a design flaw.