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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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Someone I follow(ed) on Mastodon was just trying to shame people who don't vote, because of the idea that "Trump is going to immediately round up all us trans people and throw us in camps if you don't vote Biden!!"
As far as I can tell, the claim seems entirely made up, and it feels almost malicious to be basing that entire decision around the idea that "Trump MIGHT come after ME hypothetically!!" rather than all of the people Biden has already thrown in camps and all of the people in Gaza that Biden has given his unconditional support to genociding
It feels downright selfish to still be pushing that "vote blue no matter who" bullshit for that reason, and they clearly haven't learned shit from 2016 and 2020
They're also still under the impression that people choose not to vote just so that they can "push the Democrats more progressive", when it's basically the opposite, people realize they can't push the Democrats left so they're choosing not to participate in the sham they call a "democracy", but I guess this is one of those people who can only see politics within the confines of the US electoral system
Edit: Not to mention all the other shit people have mentioned as having been actively worse under Biden, it makes it feels especially garbage and selfish that one is still pushing the idea of Biden being a human rights savior
It's not true. Trump was President for 4 years, that didn't happen. It's histrionics.
Exactly, people still have this cartoonish idea of what a Trump presidency would be like as if we didn't have 4 years of seeing exactly what it would be like
People are like "but maybe he'll be worse this time!", and like that could be true, but that's an entirely different thing than making very specific assumptions about specific actions he's supposedly going to take based on no actual evidence, it's just fearmongering to try to coerce people into reelecting a president who has already been actively materially worse (it's as if everyone's forgotten how much trans rights in the US have already been backsliding under Biden's watch)