#she was a conservative but they're all old school liberals for the most part

[narcan-necromancer]

I hate that my white mom gave me her white last name instead of giving me my father's last name or at least a hyphenated last name. She was a conservative racist bigot. My father is Hawaiian, Filipino and Chinese. When I was a child, she would tell me that she wished that I had her ex-boyfriend's blonde hair and blue eyes. It's fucking embarrassing to not have the same last name as my sisters. I didn't learn about my culture or the illegal to take over of Hawai'i until she died and I went to live with him. She was a military loving boot licker that used to be in the Navy. I remember her bitch ass threw me a racist 'Hawai'ian' themed birthday party when I was a child and made me wear a coconut shell bra, a plastic lei and one of those cheap plastic hula skirts. If there's a hell, I hope she's looking up at me and disappointed in the person I've become because that means that I've become an alright person in that department.

[jutsomethoughtsihave]

My rights aren't more important than innocent people being killed in the most demonic ways possible. Kamala will also be bad for "minorities" (please don't use that word again) and women. Her saying she's for women's rights is the same as her saying she's for Palestinian rights. She has already said she will not allow abortion clinics on federal lands. Everyone that is affected by Trump's policies knows Kamala will be the same. Everyone seems to forget Biden has been the president for four years. He promised to undo Trump policies and he kept them. Even going as far as override EPA rules to keep them in place. Biden and Kamala do not care about climate change. Fracking is one of the most destructive things you can do to the environment. We won't even have a planet in 100-200 years if we keep letting there be elections between two evils. One party says the evil out loud and the other does it quietly while pretending they're not evil. I had planned on coming out to my family but they planned on voting Kamala no matter how much I pleaded. They will never know because I don't feel safe around liberals either. They will sell out my rights for a false sense of comfort. We need more votes on the left. According to political scientists and independent journalists, Trump will definitely be winning. The people that claim to be progressive who are voting for Kamala keep saying stuff like "Our country is moving to the Right, and progess isn't popular right now, so I'm not gonna waste my vote on progess." It makes absolutely no sense to vote against policies you'd rather have just because boomers and elder gen x don't want progess. It's that same mentality of "I'm not gonna help that person who crashed their bike because no one else is". We need all the people who call themselves progressives or even "leftists" (which is meaningless anymore) to actually show they care instead of being afraid and continuing to keep this illusion of good vs bad (they're both bad) alive. Please join us. Your vote will not be wasted. And if the bad guy wins, then we'll fucking fight them will full force and we'll be there together. I promise.

Once again I’m Canadian and not old enough so I have no vote to give but I agree with you. I hate this. I wish people would vote 3rd party that’s the whole reason I made the poll. What I am saying is that in this moment during this election we’re too far down to revolt. No matter who wins I can only hope that Americans wake up and fight back. The government does not own the people, they should not have control over their rights. The government does not own the land, they should not have it at their mercy.

I also agree that the “no one else is doing it so I won’t either” mentality is what puts people in those situations in the first place and things need to change really fast at large. Full stop.

The election is less than a month away. We have no time. I wish we did. I wish people with actual gravity in their words would care just a little bit about humanity. I wish regular people were more concerned.

Fuck the “lesser of two evils”. I hate it. I hate it a lot. But right now where we are in this moment the two evils are really our only option. We would need a big ton of people to change to win.

And I empathize with you so much because right now even in Canada my safety is being compromised. The election for my province is currently happening and the Conservative Party is damn close to winning. They’ve stated that if they win they’ll ban gender and sexuality teaching and ban a law that prevents discrimination and bullying for queer people in schools. Me and my friends and every young queer persons safety is at risk and I’m terrified.

I understand you anon. I feel for you. I agree with you for the most part. This is a complicated thing. It sucks.

Humanity has done a lot to get where we are and it’ll probably take a lot to get to a place where we can all live happily free from the establishment but that takes individuals. A fuck ton of them, but individuals none the less. I hope that’s an answer enough.