Thunberg added that “no matter” which one of them wins, America “will still be an imperialist, hyper-capitalist world power that will ultimately continue to lead the world further into a racist, unequal world with an ever increasingly escalating climate and environmental emergency”.
You don’t need the permission of a European kid to vote for the least shit option for your government and kick the can of fascism a little further down the road. The recent is close - the outcomes delivered by each candidate aren’t - you shouldn’t need encouragement to vote accordingly.
nothing to kick down the road, fascism is already here.
They’re not currently in power. I’d like to keep it that way.
they are lol. why else would they be killing brown people inside your country and abroad?
and imposing sanctions and financial ruin everywhere…
or not letting you have healthcare…
sigh
What definition of fascism are you using? It sure as shit isn’t the dictionary or Eco’s - words have meaning.
That aside, there are 2 possible outcomes for this election - that’s a simple, mathematical reality. If you care about brown people, which of those two options will cause the death and suffering of far more of those people?
…but rather than lift a finger to actually help those you claim to care about, you’re going to throw them under the bus and empower the worse option because you can’t swallow your pride and vote for the lesser of two evils. An I right in thinking you’ll risk those peoples’ lives so that you can virtue signal with a Green vote?
wait, instilling global-level racism is not fascism? what about economically leashing the entirety of the third world for being “inferior entrepeneurs” or some bullshit? the US today is nazi germany gone wrong (and subtle).
there is one possible outcome for this election: your country keeps raining bombs in the middle east and keeping the rest of us down. oh, and fascism keeps expanding regardless of your inaction about it. you are not getting healthcare, or real wealth redistribution, or housing reform, or anything of that sort either. big sigh.
also in what basis do you say i dont lift a finger to help my people, again? i missed that part.
wait, instilling global-level racism is not fascism?
No. Fascism is fascism. This exact flavor of stupidity/dishonesty is why I asked where you get your nonsense definition. You don’t need me to define fascism - just take the five minutes to pick up your preferred dictionary or even better, Umberto Eco’s widely respected definition and educate yourself.
there is one possible outcome for this election
No. There are two (bad) possible outcomes that vary massively in the scale of death and suffering that they’ll lead to. To draw and argue a false equivalence is not only to dismiss that easily preventable death and suffering - it’s to advocate for it. Also, not relevant, but not my country.
If you’re not American, you can’t vote, but where you’re failing to lift a finger is that you refuse to ease off your meaningless virtue signalling bullshit around the election a massive number of lives are at stake.
Pull your fucking head in and stop enabling the deaths of who knows how many people you dishonestly claim to care about as you weaponise their suffering for nothing more than your ego.
Absolutely disgraceful.
Well… maybe. But I still have to live here.
I do wonder if first past the post is something she knows about.
Not a good stance from her, though lots about the general vibe is right.
Breaking: I also refuse to endorse either candidate. That’s because I’m not American, and I know shite about American politics. I do trust, however, that Americans can make up their minds without any foreigners telling them what to do.
I’m not American, and I know shite about American politics.
You can’t suss out which of the candidates is more competent?
Mkay.
Hopefully you don’t have a driving licence.
Believe it or not, but the US is not the centre of the universe. I genuinely have no idea what policies either candidate is proposing, and the occasional descriptions such as “literal Nazi” or “real Antichrist” aren’t really informative. I’m much more interested in which of my local parties would most likely decrease housimg prices, build better public transport infrastructure or finance more equitable social welfare support. Neither US candidate will have any effect on those, apart from perhaps a few more American immigrants on our shores. So, I really don’t feel competent to speak about American politics, and I doubt Greta is any more competent. It would be an insult to Americans to presume that they need foreigners to tell them how to vote.
You’re seriously suggesting that you live in a place where you don’t get news from what Trump is like, all the things he’s done?
I’m not American either, buddy, but like you, we’re both on the internet. Pretending you live in some news blackout or haven’t the werewithall to understand that a semi-demented fascist felon reality-TV star fraudster who’s literally promising dictatorship isn’t worse than a pretty fucking normal career politician? That’s really weird man.
Would you disagree that Trump winning the US presidency would have detrimental global effects? “I wouldn’t know, I can’t know, how would I know.”
You’re on Lemmy and for the next few days at least any non-curated feed is going to be filled with US politics. Why would you pretend to be so wholly ignorant of them?
I’d like to take a moment to remind you that the article is about Greta Thundberg just not endorsing either candidate. She’s Swedish. She can have an opinion on the election, people are allowed opinions. Yes, even young girls. But like you, she’s refusing to endorse a candidate, as she’s not American?
My opinion is that it’s very weird to pretend to be so mediailliterate that you don’t know what Donald Trump is like.
You are absolutely correct that I’m seeing the news, and the social media posts. I don’t feel either offer an accurate representation of the candidates. The legacy media seems to be focusing on the campaigns, not the actual proposed policies of the candidates (apart of some “sky is falling” clickbaits). Social media is pure hyperbole: Trump wears makeup and his running mate an eyeliner; Harris has a weird laugh, etc.
Within context of my voting, I make the effort to explore the parties’ previous performance, and read their election manifestos. I didn’t actually bother to find the election manifestos of the two main candidates, so I don’t feel that I’m well informed to make a good voting decision. I can go by the candidates’ previous record. When Trump was President, the sky didn’t fall, his presidency didn’t affect things in my country, just some people were better off and some worse off. When Harris was the VP, same thing applied. Much of criticism towards Trump, especially his mental capacity, can be applied to the current Biden presidency, and I somehow fail to see anything catastrophic happening.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some fundamental differences between the proposed policies of Trump and Harris. However, I can’t see them when casually perusing both legacy news and social media. Or, better to say, I don’t feel I can trust either. To get an accurate picture, I’d need to do proper research, and I can’t be arsed with that. I don’t think either candidate’s win will affect me significantly enough to force me to do my research and campaign on-line for one or the other.
Smart Girl.
What a fucking fool
I think a lot of the political issues in the US and similar countries stem from misunderstanding elections as a type of message-sending, rather than collective decision-making.
But endorsements, protests, and poll responses are genuinely types of message-sending, and there’s nothing inconsistent about protesting or denouncing a candidate while still voting for them in an election in which the outcome is contingent on the presence of other candidates and other voters. So the fault—if any—lies not with Thunberg, but with voters who misapply her message as a voting strategy.
Understandable. Both candidates are a face of the same US imperialist coin to people living outside the US. Might be different for those living in the US though.
