"Double haters" who loathed Trump and Biden actually seem to like Kamala Harris, poll suggests
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I’m voting for the NOT TRUMP candidate until we fix this broken system and have better options. Couldn’t really stand Biden, but I was supporting the fuck out of that dude if it meant we could avoid the shit show that would be a Trump presidency.
I feel better with Harris, but still not ideal.
"I never vote for, only against." -- W.C. Fields in a rare serious moment.
Something I take to heart. I will never get a candidate who represents everything I stand for, but there will always be one who represents less of what I stand for than the other.
I saw something similar recently along the lines of:
Voting isn't a love-letter to a candidate; it's a chess move.
Great quote. Also, love your username. SQL injection vibes.
Edit: Went in search of more info about this quote and thought I'd share what I found:
"A vote is a chess move, not a valentine."
- Rebecca Solnit
It's a summarized version of the writer's idea/turn of phrase she often brought up in her writing around the 2016 election.
In reality is just results in being @'d regularly in tech-related groupchats when people post error messages.
That's a great way of looking at it.
until we fix this broken system
THIS. Campaign Finance & Election Reform is the most important single-issue in America right now because it impacts quite literally every other problem and the disenfranchisement and frustrations so many Americans feel with the system right ow.
The good news is that there is untapped bipartisan support for said initiative. We just need to ALL keep repeating this, which again, is easy because it can be injected into nearly every single political conversation.