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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Biden doesn't want to win this election.

Do you get it yet? We have to move on past Biden if we don't want Trump.

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Past Biden? No one else is even on all the ballots in all the necessary states to even come close to 270.

I'm just happy we don't have an idiot saying "Nuke 'em all to glass" like my conservative father.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Move where? If not Biden, then Trump this election.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If people didn't PTSD themselves into staying with Biden for the last 7 months we'd have a different candidate by now.

This election has the worst two candidates ever. If this isn't the time to jump ship then it will never happen.

[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 5 months ago

If people wont break the duopoly when the lesser of two evils turns into the lesser of two genocides then they will never break away. Nothing will convince these people to actually support other parties and Im tired of hearing them pretend that's not true.

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For real, Biden should not have been the candidate, and now we're stuck with him.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There's still 6 months. I liked what Cornel West told Mehdi Hasan during his interview. It was along the lines of

"I'm not likely to win but if all the stars align then I can't capitalize on it if I wasn't there".

A lot of life comes down to participating and a large part of the result can be luck. Even if there's a 1/3000 chance that a third party would win, this would be one of the more likely elections in which that could happen if a massive migration wave happens from the Democrats to a third party candidate.

Most people are voting Democrat because they feel there's no other option. The second they feel the wind blowing differently they will jump ship.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

At this point all we can do is pray and hope the ballots get hit with a heatwave and the name checked on them smear into a third party candidate's name while gamma waves do the same with the digital ballots.

It really feels like people in this country don't want a better future. They truely want the best of two awful ones but only for themselves, screw everyone not in your immediate vicinity.

[–] DeadPand@midwest.social -5 points 5 months ago

Maybe vote all D but abstain from the Pres vote, who knows anymore

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In semi convinced the way forward would be to remove biden from office on January 1st after voting him in. Deny Trump and then tell the dems absolutely not try fucking harder.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

He can pass along his delegates at the convention.

Still time to switch it up.