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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 176 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's close and Team Trump are working hard to exploit that. They have legal teams working around the clock finding ways to ratfuck this election.

Fucking vote like your life depends on it, because if you're like me, it literally does.

The changes Trump wants to make will make me lose access to my healthcare and succumb to my cancer. My medications are $18k+ a month without insurance.

I don't even really like Harris, but I like being alive.


I know, Palestinian kids like being alive, too, but we've made fuck-all headway on that issue in a year, and as sad as it is to say, Trump would just help Netanyahu wipe Palestine off the map, so Harris is the only realistic choice I've got. I have cancer, it's not like I can personally swoop in and save Gaza. Sorry.

[–] FunderPants@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No need to apologize if you ask me.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Cheers, mate. It's a contentious issue and I can understand people feeling all kinds of ways about like they're voting to support a genocide. I feel that way, too... but I'm also keenly aware how much worse Trump and Republicans are on the same issue.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's an issue that, really has nothing to do with Americans or this election and yet ppl like you keep interjecting the topic in every thread as if screeching genocide is going to turn anyone into a single issue voter...smh.

In a 2 party system Harris is Palestines best chance at still existing.

Full stop.

Now you.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

stay safe and you do you. its one of the fundamental rights we are trying to protect - the right for each of us to be safe from these weirdos in our own minds and bodies.

it helps that our priorities appear to align.