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   Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 15:49:50 JST Erik Uden 🍑

   How to actually appeal to young voters and win the 2024 elections

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 21:24:59 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @ErikUden do you know why this "elderly" thing is entirely manufactured by republicans?
     
     chuck grassley is a republican senator, WHO IS LITERALLY 90 YEARS OLD TODAY, and there absolutely nobody complaining about that
     
     he is going to complete his term in the senate, which is a six year term btw, and republicans will never utter a single word about that
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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 21:25:00 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     This is elderly abuse

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 21:25:01 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     Joe Biden.... w a k e u p

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 21:50:18 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @ErikUden if it was biden vs romney or biden vs whoever of old version of the republican party, i would agree that is there is merit to these discussions
     
     but in the current circumstances, people in the usa should realise that they should just suck it up and vote for biden
     
     even people like dick cheney (who was bush's vice president) and elizabeth cheney have said this
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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 21:50:19 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     • NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

     @NeonPurpleStar yeah, it's silly. I personally think no politician should be of that age, including Bernie Sanders despite me endorsing him.

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 21:54:16 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     @NeonPurpleStar you can criticize a guy and still vote for him, here's my general opinion on Biden and the election:

     https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/112317115359168819

     I think the thing that separates us from the Republicans the most is that we don't have some sort of cult around the main guy, like we can criticize him and still vote for the party he represents, as well as criticize that party's flaws.

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 21:55:52 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @ErikUden if we are discussing in a vacuum i agree with you
     
     i just think that whatever criticisms everyone has, should come AFTER the elections
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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 22:05:38 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     @NeonPurpleStar People shouldn't be foiled! If voting for a guy is simply harm reduction, them telling them the truth is honest. It only gets worse if you promise them the world but can't keep those promises. So, no. Be realistic! Be honest about what this election is about: preventing another term of Donald Trump.

     People should expect a reform of the electoral college from a party that calls itself democratic, rendering Gerrymandering impossible. But neither the Democrats nor the Republicans are interested in that because it removes them from being one of the two options and opens up for the Greens, PSL, DSA, or even the worse ones like Libertarian. However, I think that'd still be preferable.

     So what I'm trying to say here is that we can't keep thinking from election to election, because living conditions keep getting worse, under Biden or Donald Trump. Lying to them and oppressing all legitimate criticism of a candidate until the election is selling people for stupid. I can understand that Biden is suboptimal and still vote for him to prevent the far worse alternative!

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jun-2024 22:06:42 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @ErikUden i am 100% with you on these points, but this should be planned further down the road after the elections
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     Pleroma-tan (kirby@lab.nyanide.com)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 23:20:53 JST Pleroma-tan

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     @ErikUden this man is slowly withering away
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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 23:23:17 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     This is a supervillain speech

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 23:23:18 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     I am a true Dark Brandon Acolyte

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 01-Jul-2024 23:23:19 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     These are my favorite Dark Brandon memes (it was funny before Biden did this himself)

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     NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi: (neonpurplestar@outerheaven.club)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 02:13:43 JST NeonPurpleStar :heart_bi:

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     @ErikUden @TechnicalAdept
     
     erik, you don't realise what
     
     the usa army has lots of golf resorts where presidents can usually golf, that's what obama and others did, and it costs little because it is a state property
     
     trump was literally getting his entire family and secret service protection to stay at his resorts, and as president, the usa taxpayer would pay for it and he was charging ridiculous amounts
     
     the fucker was literally robbing the usa taxpayer to play golf
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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 02:13:45 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     @TechnicalAdept Isn't trump like the 10th best payed athlete in all of the US if you only take the salary he got whilst golfing in his four year term? I think I heard some insane statistic like that

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     Matt Hardy (technicaladept@awscommunity.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 02:13:46 JST Matt Hardy

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     @ErikUden even in golf he cheats.

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 06:24:23 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     I can't take it no more

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     Erik Uden 🍑 (erikuden@mastodon.de)'s status on Monday, 22-Jul-2024 06:10:30 JST Erik Uden 🍑

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     Things that are younger than Joe Biden (1942) or Donald Trump (1946):

     • Bill Clinton (1946)
     • India (1947)
     • Diamonds on engagement rings (1947)
     • Color TVs (1954)
     • US Highways (1956)
     • Alaska and Hawaii being US States (1959)
     • Birth Control Pills (1960)
     • Walmart (1962)
     • Pineapple on Pizza (1962)
     • Legal Interracial Marriage (1967)
     • Calling 911 (1968)
     • High Fives (1977)
     • Last French Guillotine Execution (1977)
     • CNN (1980)
     • Ciabatta Bread (1982)

     Also: Over 95% of the US Population is below the age of 78.