I teach at a public high school for “profoundly gifted” kids, and work pretty much exclusively with 16+ students. They’re all very smart, and range from libs to somewhat better than normal libs (we had one open ML, but he graduated a few years ago). They all think Trump is a fucking dumbass. As with every election, a big crop of our seniors is going to be eligible to vote for the first time this year.

For the first time in the decade or so that I’ve worked here, pretty much every single one of them has said they don’t intend to vote. They hate Biden almost as much as Trump, either because they condemn the genocide in Israel or just because they (correctly) believe that he has done nothing to actually benefit them. This is a population of kids who are much more politically engaged than your average teenager, and vote turnout in previous years has been high. I was actually very surprised at how many of them expressed contempt for the whole process this year, and indicated that they were totally uninterested in supporting Biden (and of course would not support Trump). I’m guessing this is part of a big trend that we’re going to see this year, and I’m preparing myself for libs blaming young people–for whom Biden has done little but make their future demonstrably worse–for Democrats’ loss.

I’m trying to convince all of them to vote anyway, just for some third party that speaks to them. Yesterday, we talked about PSL, Cornel West, the Greens, and Afroman for a bit. It would be incredibly funny to see young people reject Biden/Trump, and yet turn out in record numbers anyway. The narrative that kids are just too addicted to their phones to vote would fall apart. I’ll keep working on it.

No real point here, just im-doing-my-part

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    Your man Genocide Joe had no issues sidestepping Congress to send billions to genocidal demons on the other side of the planet, but suddenly had no money to actually provision for the promises he made to get to the point he could cosign a genocide. Biden was never going to do anything for protection of synagogues, churches, was never going to close the concentration camps on the border, was never going to stop the Cop City monstrosity, was never going to let out the protestors who tried to fought against it-- and they’re all going away on RICO racketeering charges in one of the most egregious miscarriages of justice that Amerika’s seen in a hundred years.

    Typical settler monstrosity, but Biden has always been a segregationist monster ever since the '94 Crime Bill; and settler monsters are all this system of electoralism lets get to the brass ring. I don’t care who you put up next. They’ll just be another symptom to a far greater illness. Even Trump is nothing more than a symptom of the same white supremacy that spawned Biden. Your redditor pith, is nothing more than a symptom of the same illness. And I don’t give the first fuck anymore. May you reap everything you’ve sewn; and may you die nameless at the end of that harvest.