Hoping this can be a way to make people think more critically about their choice for US President, maybe even bring opposing sides together to fix the problems we ALL face.
So if you support Trump try to list 3 things you dislike about him and 3 things you like about Harris. Please keep answers serious. Plenty of other places on Lemmy for you to post snappy putdowns.
My answers in a reply.
It isn’t possible when one candidate has zero redeeming qualities. Trump accomplished nothing other then undermining democracy, undermining trust in science, and stoking xenophobia. He didn’t even accidentally do something right.
It wasn’t easy but I found at least three small things I do appreciate about him. I think painting him as the antichrist is as helpful as declaring him as the second coming of Christ. Maybe it’s too soon but some kind of outreach needs to occur or the desperation on each side will only increase.
He’s genuinely himself. Even if he contradicts himself I think it all comes from his own head and he’s not taking the standard approach of rehearsing speeches ad nauseum and censoring himself because of what some focus group said.
That is stupid when the person being themselves is a piece of shit. Do you think Hitler being his genuine self is a positive?
He did come out in support of banning bump stocks.
He was also in favor of gun proliferation and he contradicted his opposition to bump stocks because his genuine self is trying to play both sides.
Despite personal views on COVID he did generally support the emergency actions necessary in a pandemic scenario.
He also constantly undermined them by saying covid was a hoax and telling people they didn’t need to wear masks or be vaccinated.
Your three things are all stupid and you are praising him for being a terrible person.
Maybe it’s a doomed experiment but I think it’s possible to praise an act but not praise the actor. I’m hoping small concessions can lead to common ground.
I’ll actually amend my first bullet though since I believe Trump is a genuine liar (which is contradictory) and say instead I applaud that he committed us to leaving Afghanistan.
Harris likes:
She says silly things in between vowing to continue genocide and feeding anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Her winning would ensure Hillary can never be the first female president.
She kicked Biden out of the race.
Trump dislikes:
Almost all of his policies and rhetoric.
He’s old and kinda losing his funny/charm skill.
Elon Musk.
(There’s a 0% chance I vote for Harris and a 1% chance I vote for Trump depending on how accelerationist/spiteful towards America I’m feeling in the booth)
I dont support either of them so ill say 3 things i like about both.
Harris:
“You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”
“Do not come”
Shes ok on abortion i guess.
Trump:
He is undeniably hilarious at times. If he is president at least the content will be good. The dance parties he has been doing lately are cool too. I hope he does them in the white house and makes foreign leaders listen to YMCA, and Ave Maria.
He’s so incompetent that he may actually be good for the world by damaging Americas Empire.
Actually i kinda think he doesnt wanna be president and is just doing it to not go to jail so if he wins he might just fuck off and play golf again which if he is too lazy to actually do anything would make him materially better than harris since while his policies are worse hers are still bad. So if he just doesnt do anything really then id prefer him to her. Only like a 50/50 chance tho imo that he does that.
Harris dislikes:
Lack of action against a genocide we are funding
Changes her stance a lot
Was chosen as VP based partially on gender by Biden
Trump likes:
Extremely fucking funny for the wrong reasons
I like his views on promoting legal immigration
He’s right about mainstream media having agendas, especially after Bernie
Trump likes:
- He’s genuinely himself. Even if he contradicts himself I think it all comes from his own head and he’s not taking the standard approach of rehearsing speeches ad nauseum and censoring himself because of what some focus group said.
- He did come out in support of banning bump stocks.
- Despite personal views on COVID he did generally support the emergency actions necessary in a pandemic scenario.
Harris dislikes:
- Wishy-washy stance on genocide in Gaza.
- Support of hydraulic fracking.
- More baby steps to fixing healthcare. It needs an overhaul, not amending.
