US Midterm Election Megathread II: The Stretch Run Begins

[Haselandt]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

[Freezic Vast]

"Unless they don't vote the way I want them to" -San Lumen

When it comes to electing monsters like Bolsonaro no.

Oh shut up, that's a stupid fucking reason and you know it. Get over it.

[San Lumen]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

I care about having a planet for children to inherit

[Haselandt]

I care about having a planet for children to inherit

The implications of this sound like hyperbole to me.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

I care about having a planet for children to inherit

The implications of this sound like hyperbole to me.

Apparently, if Republicans stay in power, every nuke in the US's arsenal will simultaneously detonate.

[Kowani]

The implications of this sound like hyperbole to me.

Apparently, if Republicans stay in power, every nuke in the US's arsenal will simultaneously detonate.

I think he's talking about Climate Change.

[Vassenor]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

Thinking people should not have to face bankruptcy in order to access healthcare is "too far left" now.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

"Unless they don't vote the way I want them to" -San Lumen

When it comes to electing monsters like Bolsonaro no.

In other words, you want everybody to vote...unless they have a different political opinion to yours.

Basically, you start falling into the hole of authoritarianism.

You might as well just admit your love for control here and now and get this done with.

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When it comes to electing monsters like Bolsonaro no.

In other words, you want everybody to vote...unless they have a different political opinion to yours.

Basically, you start falling into the hole of authoritarianism.

You might as well just admit your love for control here and now and get this done with.

"I hope people who support [terrible person] are too lazy to vote and stay home" is not the same as saying that their right to vote should be taken away. It's not authoritarian to root for an outcome to an election just like it's not cheating to hope the sports team you're up against partied too hard and is too hungover to play.

[Western Vale Confederacy]

In other words, you want everybody to vote...unless they have a different political opinion to yours.

Basically, you start falling into the hole of authoritarianism.

You might as well just admit your love for control here and now and get this done with.

"I hope people who support [terrible person] are too lazy to vote and stay home" is not the same as saying that their right to vote should be taken away. It's not authoritarian to root for an outcome to an election just like it's not cheating to hope the sports team you're up against partied too hard and is too hungover to play.

He did not state that he hoped his opponent's voters would stay home or be too lazy to vote, he outright implied that voters should have their voting rights revoked if they vote for radical candidates.

This was certainly not a misunderstanding.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

So do you unless they benefit you and your side.

No I don't. I think every citizen over the age of 18 unless incarcerated should have a unimpeded right to vote.

>Unless incarcerated
Lol, even I support freer and fairer elections than you.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

I care about having a planet for children to inherit

But you don't care for children though.

"Unless they don't vote the way I want them to" -San Lumen

When it comes to electing monsters like Bolsonaro no.

This is proving their point.

[Post War America]

I care about having a planet for children to inherit

But you don't care for children though.

When it comes to electing monsters like Bolsonaro no.

This is proving their point.

To be perfectly fair to SL, I think they have some right to want to prevent Bolsinaro getting into power, given that he at best represents the status quo for homosexuals, which is to say beatings and murders, and at worst favors rolling back the few de jure protections they have in Brazil. Wanting to use any means necessary to keep people who want to kill you from power may be less than ideal but methinks it can be justifiable in some sense.

[Liriena]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

[Post War America]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

Nonsense, we need to maintain the lasseiz faire capitalist economy otherwise businesses won't create jobs and we need to those jobs. If the poors can't afford healthcare,or uni, or rent that's because they haven't pulled themselves up by the bootstraps hard enough.

[Northeast American Federation]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

Of course not, they need to start throwing all the right wingers into gulags and forcefully taking over industry. You know, for progress. That's worked out so great elsewhere.

[Liriena]

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

Nonsense, we need to maintain the lasseiz faire capitalist economy otherwise businesses won't create jobs and we need to those jobs. If the poors can't afford healthcare,or uni, or rent that's because they haven't pulled themselves up by the bootstraps hard enough.

Also, medicare for all will turn you into vuvuzela

[Valrifell]

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

Of course not, they need to start throwing all the right wingers into gulags and forcefully taking over industry. You know, for progress. That's worked out so great elsewhere.

Now you're getting it!

[Liriena]

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

Of course not, they need to start throwing all the right wingers into gulags and forcefully taking over industry. You know, for progress. That's worked out so great elsewhere.

Don't threaten me with a good time

[Northeast American Federation]

Of course not, they need to start throwing all the right wingers into gulags and forcefully taking over industry. You know, for progress. That's worked out so great elsewhere.

Don't threaten me with a good time

Why wait? Venezuela and Cuba are probably nice this time of year.

[Ifreann]

It will be much better if the Republicans get ahead in the midterm elections. Democrats are not good for America anymore, they're pushing too far left.

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

[Post War America]

Nonsense, we need to maintain the lasseiz faire capitalist economy otherwise businesses won't create jobs and we need to those jobs. If the poors can't afford healthcare,or uni, or rent that's because they haven't pulled themselves up by the bootstraps hard enough.

Also, medicare for all will turn you into vuvuzela

Of course, because Venuzuela's problems aren't at all related to being almost entirely reliant on oil, and are all a product of the evil "socialist" economy that is 70% controlled by private owners.

Counterpoint: they haven't pushed far left enough >:3

Of course not, they need to start throwing all the right wingers into gulags and forcefully taking over industry. You know, for progress. That's worked out so great elsewhere.

Kinda like how Pinochet dropped labor organizers out of helicopters and seized businesses to redistribute to his friends, or Suharto sent death squads to murder leftists in the streets and seized businesses to give to his friends, or how a succession of Guatemalan dictators sent death squads to murder leftists and anyone associated with them, and hand over Guatamalan farms and businesses to American corporations to bleed dry. Because that worked so great elsewhere.

[Liriena]

Don't threaten me with a good time

Why wait? Venezuela and Cuba are probably nice this time of year.

Vuvuzela

[Corrian]

But you don't care for children though.

This is proving their point.

To be perfectly fair to SL, I think they have some right to want to prevent Bolsinaro getting into power, given that he at best represents the status quo for homosexuals, which is to say beatings and murders, and at worst favors rolling back the few de jure protections they have in Brazil. Wanting to use any means necessary to keep people who want to kill you from power may be less than ideal but methinks it can be justifiable in some sense.

I dunno what's with peoples response to mass corruption and a unstable country is to just elect the most godawful, scary alternative as a "Solution". Humans are hopeless.

[Post War America]

To be perfectly fair to SL, I think they have some right to want to prevent Bolsinaro getting into power, given that he at best represents the status quo for homosexuals, which is to say beatings and murders, and at worst favors rolling back the few de jure protections they have in Brazil. Wanting to use any means necessary to keep people who want to kill you from power may be less than ideal but methinks it can be justifiable in some sense.

I dunno what's with peoples response to mass corruption and a unstable country is to just elect the most godawful, scary alternative as a "Solution". Humans are hopeless.

Methinks people everywhere are fed up with the neoliberal world order and will support anyone who challenges it. Unfortunately it would appear that in many nations there is no populist left, and as a result its a choice between the populist right (which quite frankly is usually the same nonsense the tories have been giving you, but with more xenophobia), and a centrist left which doesn't threaten the status quo, and generally attacks leftist criticisms of the status quo at least as much as right wing ones. That being said, once many working class peoples realize that the right populists have nothing to offer but more of the same once the other has been removed I doubt they're going to stick with the populist right. Ironically, I believe genuine fascists would probably have greater staying power than neocon but with xenophobia as they have something more to offer, even if what they offer is absolutely horrifying.