You don’t vote for presidents during midterms.

Is your suggestion to sit on our hands for four years?

I have a hard time blaming the voters for anything when they live in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet. Ultimately the voters opinions don’t matter when they can be shaped by billions of dollars in ads and media time.

You seem to be assuming that they didn’t vote for no apparent reason.

He’s annoying, but he’s right.

If they didn’t want to lose because of protest votes they should have thrown a bone to the protesters before the election.

The DNC chose this, everything else is just an attempt to deflect blame.

Dunno who’s downvoting you, you’re right

American voters have zero agency. We only exist to pay taxes and legitimize the state, which is not obligated to provide us with actual options to vote for.

The back half of the shell is easy though, I swapped mine with a transluscent purple backplate a few months back. ^_

Are you not aware that draft dodging was a crime?

I get one of these long hairs on the very top of my ears. It’s weird.

Drones can’t search houses for contraband or arrest dissidents.

If Trump starts blowing up whole neighborhoods in search of insurgents he’s just going to manufacture more insurgents.

Tell me if there will be any Republicans left to vote after Trump goes full Blair Mountain on the 60% right-wing Teamsters that refuse to cross a picket line.

There’s a reason why America stopped doing conscription during Vietnam. Turns out that 90% of folks can’t be trained to willingly shoot people and a large fraction of the remainder would sooner shoot their own commanding officer than some poor foreign kid.

The Orange Hitler is on track to take power and you wanna put up a flag to support America’s Chancellor Paul von Hindenburg. XD

The electoral college and our first-past-the-post system is a huge part of the problem. With ranked choice voting we would have more choices for candidates and progressives and socialists would have a better shot.

You’re not wrong, but it’s irrelevant so long as we live under parties that benefit from this status quo. There’s no way to get ranked choice voting without overthrowing the two-party system first. Things will have to get worse before they can get better.

We have been a democracy since the founding of our country. Consider reading a US history book to learn more. Our democracy is flawed.

You seem to have contradicted yourself. Are we a democracy or are we flawed? If the system is structured so badly that fascists can claim totalizing power, can you really call the system democratic?

It didn’t have to be this way. We could have chosen socialism

“We” don’t get to make that choice. The choices available are selected by capitalists and it has been that way since this country was founded.

I’m trans and I voted for Harris, asshole.

People like you are why the Democrats thought they could offer nothing and still win.

Stop trying to enforce a Republican-style party line and try building a winning coalition instead.

60% less than the last presidential election. The one Biden won.

Stop blaming third parties for the Democrats’ failure to build a coalition within its own party.

It’s been so frustrating to have to put up with Democrats that try to enforce a Republican-style party line instead of building the coalition they need to win.

It’s even more frustrating when they put a hundred times more effort into trying to build a coalition with members of the party they claim to be a threat to Democracy instead of their own left wing.

“Thoughts and Prayers”

Seems a fitting epitaph for America.