Well said. Thank you.

Very familiar with the trolley philosophical problem, thank you. But you’re arguing the lesser of both evils point of view, again. Which is not an excuse anymore. With all due respect, but it’s a horrible half-assed defeatist mentality that will never create any meaningful change. And yes, I’m very familiar with the electoral system, and the popular vote. Both of which clearly wanted Trump to win. Denying that this was what the majority of America wanted is delusional. What we should focus on is why on earth did the majority pick such a horrible president (Trump)? I’d love to see Democrats take on that self reflection and come up with better messaging and policies instead of acting like us independents owe them a vote…And no, “racism and sexism” ain’t it either.

I’m reminded by this quote from my one of favorite authors (Hunter S Thompson) in 1972:

“How many more of these stinking, double-downer sideshows will we have to go through before we can get ourselves straight enough to put together some kind of national election that will give me and the at least 20 million people I tend to agree with a chance to vote FOR something, instead of always being faced with that old familiar choice between the lesser of two evils?” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72

We’re in 2025. Neither Trump nor the Genocide-supporting DNC deserves to be in power. That’s what a non-vote is.

thank you 🙏🏻

Waste of taxpayer money

I’m here to spread my seed.

What about “Eternity”? I love it for Lemmy and no ads

Awesome and smooth UI

It’s not that they suck. My problem with them, as an independent, is they’ve positioned themselves as the moral high ground party while in fact they have no moral leg to stand on. Their leadership had a historic moral test when it comes to the Gaza genocide and they failed it. They had another test to put a great candidate to prevent another Trump presidency, but they bowed down to their corporate masters and picked Kamala.

It’s that level of fundamentalism and holier than thou attitude that alienates many people like me. They have zero fighting tactics against Republicans besides clutching pearls and shaming. Kamala’s website up until the election day had no “agenda section”. You can’t really tell what her campaign is about. I guess she’s perfect enough and shouldn’t be questioned, otherwise “racism and sexism”.

They need a complete reset and redo of the party and its principles. Until then, I’m a non voter.

Too early in the negotiation process which just started, not the timespan of the war.

Watch the whole 40mins, it was Zelensky who decided to challenge Vance with a “what kind of diplomacy are you talking about” in the last 5 or so minutes, then the blow up happened. Totally rookie move from Z after getting triggered by Trump’s lack of negative outlook on Putin.

That’s too many sentences for saying nothing.

True, he did gain a lot of respect despite messing up the negotiation.

Zelensky blew it up too soon honestly. The whole asking JD Vance was not disciplined and let his emotions take over. Granted he’s got a lot on his plate, but that was a strategic negotiation mistake on his part.

Zelensky brought it into himself honestly. Wtf was he thinking discussing security guarantees too early in public? I’m glad he was humiliated.

It’s literally a fox news interview 😂 what’s your point?

Left it for Pixelfed last year and never looked back. It’s a cesspool of toxic comments and soft porn basically.

Did you actually read the article? Surveyed 2400+ people

Evil has many faces, sometimes funding a genocide, other times advocating ethnic cleansing.

Spare me. Dems are as evil as Republicans.

No need to blame them. They weren’t aware of the potential destruction DOGE would cause… and now after they saw all the chaos they did the moral thing.

Original USDS employees, which Musk merged into DOGE

I agree tbh, whole thing was provoking Russia by US