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nillia:

itsmikeee:

To the people who say they won’t vote in this election, think about how hard the Black community had to fight just to vote in the 1960s. 

These cis, hetero, white voters who refuse to vote for Hillary Clinton (who won the popular vote by 3 million and was better at attracting minorities, I might add) have the privilege to ride out a Trump Presidency. I don’t care what this white boy says. 

I’m a gay minority, I can’t afford NOT to vote.

That’s right. The only people who feel so picky about only giving their votes for a perfect candidate are the ones who think they can survive Trump.

Minorities (especially race, religious, sexual, disability) almost *never* get a perfect candidate.

But we vote to defeat those that would hurt us: because we care about preserving and advancing our rights and those of other vulnerable minority groups.

methessia:

rob-anybody:

fdelopera:

xx-sc0ut69-xx:

ink-phoenix:

Jill Stein is an antivaxxer and Johnson wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade …but sure keep telling me how viable they are after you googled ‘third party candidate’ for .7 seconds on your phone. Go to bed.

Also she compared autism to cancer so…

I looked this up, and it’s true. Disgusting. Jill Stein said that autism is an “epidemic” and compared it to cancer, diabetes, asthma, and obesity. Fuck that. Do not vote for someone towing the Autism $peaks party line!

She calls autism an epidemic in her Reddit AMA here: https://m.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4ixbr5/i_am_jill_stein_green_party_candidate_for/d323ikm

She’s also a SWERF:
http://www.bustle.com/articles/176226-jill-steins-stance-on-vaccinations-suggests-shes-not-as-progressive-as-you-might-think

Just to let you know, Hillary Clinton’s platform (https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/autism/) includes a section on autism, in which she plans to:

“Expand insurance coverage [through healthcare.gov] for autism services;

Conduct a nationwide screening outreach campaign;

Invest in more research to deepen our understanding of autism;

Increase employment opportunities for individuals with autism;

 Keep kids with autism safe [from bullying] at school.”

If you needed any more reason to NOT VOTE FOR A 3RD PARTY this election, here you go.

micdotcom:

Another top Republican is voting for Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton added yet another big name to the list of prominent Republican supporters on Tuesday when Hewlett Packard CEO and former California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman announced she will back Clinton over Trump, whom she called “reckless,” a “demagogue” and a threat to democracy. 

Whitman is the fourth high-profile Republican to back Clinton this week.

Report: Trump Kept Asking During Foreign Policy Briefing Why He Can’t Just Use Nukes

mediaite.com
According to a report from MSNBC Joe Scarborough, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump asked a foreign policy advisor three times during an hour

dduane:

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quietasides:

Bernie Sanders does not want you to write him in as a third-party candidate.

“I’m going to do everything I can to defeat Donald Trump. I think Trump, in so many ways, will be a disaster for this country if he were to be elected president. We do not need a president whose cornerstone of his campaign is bigotry…is insulting Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women. Who does not believe in the reality of climate change when virtually every scientist who has studied this issue understands we have a global crisis. This is not somebody who should become president.”

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jifty: I want to be convinced, I really do, but I just see as much danger, long term, with voting for Hillary. If we give in to the guilt trips and fear-mongering, we are sending them the message that their tactics work. That they can abuse us and silence us and we'll still fall in line. That all they have to do is hold up a right-wing boogieman and we'll come to heel. If we vote for her without any real change in the way things are run, liberals will be no better off in 2020. Convince me, please.
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wilwheaton:

If it was anyone other than Trump, I’d agree with you. Trump is that dangerous, and the movement he is leading is that destructive.

Someone who is a GOP writer, I forget who, said something like, “Hillary is wrong about everything, but she’s wrong within acceptable parameters. Trump is wrong about everything and truly dangerous.” 

Now, I don’t agree that she’s wrong about everything, but she’s wrong about some things that are important, like Iraq and her embrace of neoconservative foreign policy.

But Trump is a clear and real threat to America and the world in a way we haven’t seen in almost 100 years. 

This isn’t about tactics and rewarding a system that is gross and really needs to be changed. This is about stopping not just Donald Trump, but all the white supremacists and radical right wing nationalists he’s leading. 

And remember that we can still exert influence in Congress, and at the state and local level.

And and AND remember that Reagan inflicted Scalia on us for OVER THIRTY YEARS. Who the hell knows what kind of whackjob Tump and Pence would nominate to SCOTUS? I doubt Clinton will nominate someone who is liberal enough for me, but I know with absolute certainty that she will nominate justices who won’t be a catastrophic nightmare. 

This election is about so much more than Clinton vs. Trump. This is about what we want America to be, and who we want to lead it. We don’t have the luxury of waxing philosophical about tactics and sending messages. We must defeat and destroy Donald Trump and the movement he leads.

veronica-rich:

This is how you talk to Sanders supporters who aren’t sure yet, without treating them like 7-year-olds.

arahir:

if you don’t vote for hillary or vote third party in this election, you don’t get to complain anymore.

you don’t get to be upset about tuition costs or minimum wage. you don’t get to be upset about institutionalized racism or privatized prisons or women’s rights or lgbt rights or immigrant rights or the environment or anything else. you don’t get to complain because you didn’t do anything about it. you wasted your best shot.

if you don’t vote for hillary in november you forfeit your right to pretend you care about this country.