Ah it's voter disenfranchisement season here comes the "don't vote" machine
this post was submitted on 22 May 2026
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It's not "don't vote", it's "don't be fooled into high expectations for the Party of Betraying the Left"
How about we call it the do something real machine.
Also vote, but please please please understand how little impact that has in most ridings compared to direct action.
Do you know who your reps are now? Are you excited about them? At municipal, state, and federal levels? If not then you need to be making noise until you're provided with better choices.
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Is this more 'both sides the same' nonsense?
Do we think dems will save us? Let's say a huge blue wave happens. A Democrat wins every election for the next 2 years. What would they do?
What have they done so far? Ofc I'll vote dem but thinking they will be the ones to save us will only lead to disappointment.
I think it's not that "the dems" will save us, but that the structural flaws of our system mean that progressives getting into power at the federal level need to do so by winning democrat primaries.
That's fair, probably the most effective course of action at the moment. That's how the Leaders We Deserve PAC is operating I believe. Still within the two party system getting people to vote and running as democrats.
I guess when I say "dems" I mean "establishment democrats". Like Biden, Kamala, Clinton etc.
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Nope, unless we get involved in the primaries and push for proper progressives like Mamdani. Candidates without AIPAC or super PAC money. unless we vote for them in the primaries, then dems will just keep screwing us.
They will keep everything that Trump has implemented in place, the 1% will continue to get richer while we get poorer. We will still be at a constant state of war. Like Biden and politicians have said throughout time, nothing will fundamentally change
The ACA was better than nothing
It was, still is. I never liked the argument "well it could be worse" when things should be better.
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Yes
Things can't get better until you realize you are not the good guys
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And why am I getting pickpocketed half a world away... I don't even watch the puppet show...
That's something that yanks can't understand
We despise them because they export their stupidity
All their wars, military and cultural are inflicted on the rest of the world whether we like it or not
Not to mention the fact that the cunts don't seem to understand there's an entire world outside of their little shithole
My fiancée is American, and she can't stand the place
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This, but it's raping children and bombing innocents
While also stealing money
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An elephant and a donkey fight in a puppet show and the crowd cheers for one or the other because one of them is going to decide how good your future is. And when people start to notice their life is getting harder for working people most of the time, they're told they can stop the decline by cheering louder for the puppet that's not currently in power.
The reality today is one of those puppets is going to be in control. Would you like the one that tries to clean the wounds and put on bandaids or the one that keeps playing with knives?
You can sit at the puppet show quietly, but whether or not you cheer, they're going to pick a winner. If you want to leave this circus you better hope the puppet that is open to the idea of changing how we pick a winner starts winning a lot.
If you are paying attention none of our lives are getting easier. The one you are trying to claim is applying bandaids and attending the wound are the ones that caused the cut.
You don’t stick a knife in a man’s back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches and say you are making progress. If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it out all the way, then that’s still not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t pulled the knife out, much less healed the wound. They won’t even admit the knife is there
Malcolm X
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You don't want to cheer harder? What are you trying to do? Hurt small businesses?
You didn't suck off the pickpocket hard enough so its your fault the other pick pocket stabbed you
And even if we don't go to the puppet show, we still get pickpocketed.
yeah it's a divide a conquer scheme
The term divide and conquer in politics refers to an entity gaining and maintaining political power by using divisive measures.[1] This includes the exploitation of existing divisions within a political group by its political opponents, and also the deliberate creation or strengthening of such divisions.[2][3]
Wow so deep…
/facepalm.
Yeah they should make a drawing out of this, make sure you clearly label each component of the drawing so you don't leave any doubt about the message. /s
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No matter how they dumb it down, americans still won't get it.
you know, the more divisive politics is, the more it benefits those in power. because you continue to support your team, meanwhile the other people support the other team. this ensures that all politicians are strongly supported by someone. all the politicians need to do is to pretend to fight each other, meanwhile they actually don't. they just have to pretend to fight each other sothat you continue to support them against the so-called "enemy".
What gets me is how much a Democrat supporter will argue circular logic with you to the ends of the Earth. Not because your vote matters, but their narrative does. I live in a deep red state, not single vote of mine has mattered from local to national elections but boy do neo-liberals try to get me to believe the blue lie.
Not sure what the lie is. They're better, but not great. Pretty simple really. But if you don't matter then why are you getting involved in any political discussion?
The lie is that Democrats are the better choice. They have you locked up and kept lockup in a duopoly that represents the 1% while shitting on the working class. But Democrats are thankful that they at least get some blue shit.
There are politics outside of that duopoly which is why that their opinion and everyone else's opinion politically matters
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