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[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 168 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Abstaining from voting is just a vote to let others choose for you. It does not exempt you from the system.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 70 points 5 days ago (13 children)

You're banned from .ml, !latestagecapitalism and r/Pyongyang.

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[–] neatchee@piefed.social 106 points 5 days ago (19 children)

But the bus driver supports genocide. The whole bus is rotten. We should let the bus go off the cliff and then build a new bus. I'm sure enough of us will survive the crash to build a better bus afterwards. Many people will die but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

🤡🤡🤡

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 63 points 5 days ago (12 children)

But the bus driver supports genocide. The whole bus is rotten.

You ever notice how the 'burn it down' people fall into two camps?

  1. not in the affected area: chicken-hawk types who advocate the sacrifice of others.
  2. in the affected area: I didn't know the leopards of societal collapse, starvation, and violence, would eat my face.
[–] neatchee@piefed.social 48 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Type 2 also includes the "why's it taking so long? Look at all these people suffering through the collapse. We need to make it collapse faster so we get to the good part faster" people, without acknowledging that this is what collapse looks like: lots of suffering

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 23 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah but you can just blame all that suffering on the people trying to hold the whole thing together, because obviously if you just let the whole thing collapse then the suffering will end abruptly and a magical utopia can finally descend from the heavens! /s

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 29 points 5 days ago (6 children)

"The five non-voters are the true anarchists who see the violence inherent in the system. Actually the two who voted against driving off the cliff are wrong for even supporting a system in which voters can choose to drive the bus off the cliff. They're actually worse than the three who voted to drive the bus off the cliff, because they tacitly approve of driving the bus off the cliff just by participating in the system which allows the bus to be driven off the cliff, while fooling themselves into feeling morally absolved of the decision to drive off the cliff! So the non-voters are the only virtuous ones in this situation"

(The /s should be clear, right?)

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[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 64 points 5 days ago (21 children)

One side started war with iran while other side didn't

One side destroyed relationship with strongest allies for nothing while other side didn't.

One side went to war with people on the streets with ICE and lowered recruitment requirements while other side didn't.

One side gave us Pete Hegseth while otherside didn't.

One side started tariff war for nothing while other side didn't.

Both sides same though I guess?

[–] starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 days ago

Don't forget gutting USAID and research funding, including children's cancer research, so they can instead pay for the hired thugs in ICE. Legitimately one of the most shameful things the US has ever done in terms of deaths caused, in the short and long term.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 36 points 5 days ago

One side is circling their wagons around a child fucking pedophile rapist.

The other side isn’t.

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[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago

As a non-American: please vote!!! Your country influences our lives too and we have had enough of that disgusting orange shit! Please vote Democrat

[–] dektep@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago (5 children)
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[–] YashaB@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (7 children)

To not vote or to vote MAGA, the; outcome will be the same.

And the world will suffer for it.

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[–] darthsundhaft@piefed.social 51 points 5 days ago (8 children)

The dumbest thing is how we still haven't done anything close to what France and other countries are doing to actually make their voice heard. Won't change my mind. Yes, you should go vote. You should also overthrow the government.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 19 points 5 days ago (2 children)

We should start with a national, general strike.

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[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 days ago (38 children)

Nobody is saying you cannot demand better from your elected officials.

But if you sit at home you let fascists win.

[–] Pratai@piefed.ca 21 points 5 days ago

It’s not a protest, it’s a surrender.

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

People should be reminded to vote.

People also need to be reminded that the 2 party system is a policy choice made by Republicans and the Democrats. We can be free to vote how we want. We can have no spoiler effect. We can have a race to the top, not a race to the bottom.

I hope doing things your way works if yall are truly ride or die on First-past-the-post voting. To continue to try the same thing and expecting different results... maybe it could work. The chance isnt 0%, i will admit that. Its gotta work after all.

This is where I would usually post videos on the flaws of First-past-the-post voting alongside videos going over alternative voting systems with no spoiler effect.

Those days have passed us by. Good luck everyone.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Vote out the Orange MAGA Turds and bring back the USA we knew before Jan 2017.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

the USA we knew before Jan 2017.

Standards are low

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (5 children)

That ain't coming back, we can't go back

But we can rebuild

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 32 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Uh-oh. You promoted voting. Time for all the dbzer0 and .ml chodes to show up and tell you why you shouldn't do that.

Which, of course, is all the more reason to vote. If you do the opposite of anything anyone from either of those instances say, you are almost assuredly doing the right thing.

If you sit on the fence as the fence burns down, you'll end up in the dirt with everyone else.

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[–] tough_cookies@lemmy.cafe 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But by not voting I show how apathetic I am and that makes me super cool, and then I go online to brag to everyone about how super cool apathetic I am....wait....am I still apathetic if I go online to brag and fight about it?

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[–] obvs@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The real kicker is that the guy driving the bus is being paid to drive it off a cliff by the company that makes buses so that they can sell us a new bus even though no one will be left to buy it because the bus futures boost their stock price today.

[–] tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But also remember to meet your neighbors, form communities, and join political groups before Election Day.
It’s important to vote, for sure, but if we aren’t part of the selection process that provides good candidates that’s when it feels useless. This is especially true for everyone that hates both parties.

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[–] nul42@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 days ago (6 children)

I always vote but I usually have to write in my candidate.

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[–] redditStinksSuperBad@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (11 children)

The comments in here are so fucking cringe. If you're not voting democrat then you're aiding republicans. Full stop. Want to know why women no longer have right to an abortion? Why brown people are getting thrown into camps? It's because of fucking dipshits like you.

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[–] tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] TRock@feddit.dk 4 points 4 days ago

a vote for someone else other than the orange goon squad is a good start

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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago

All citizens have three votes. Their political vote, their financial vote (who they give their money to), and their life vote in how they behave, what that vocally support, if they protest, if they support a revolution or not. Every government today is the product of the third type of vote, people fighting in protest and revolution, often mortally to birth that government. It's our job as citizens to vote for the government and world we want.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The idea that there is a functional difference between individual choice and collective outcome is apparently insurmountable.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah but if I'm with 10 friends, and 9 of them want to go to this bar, and I want to go to a different bar, we all go to the bar I don't want to go to and THAT'S NOT FAIR BECAUSE MY VOTE IS SUPPOSED TO MATTER!

  • every non voter ever.
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[–] joeschmoe@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (31 children)

This is bus example is basically what they did with letting Trump loose on the world. Fucking idiots.

"But muh Palestine". Yeah, I am sure Trump was soooo much better for Palestine.

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[–] voldage@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (8 children)

I know you guys won't, because your job is to convince as many people as possible not to vote after all, but god do I yearn for the day when the Democrats start to appeal to non-voters by other means than "at least we're not as bad as the other guy". If you think that this is an effective strategy, you might just be able to wrestle defeat from the jaws of victory. Just keep letting marginalized folk know that they shouldn't count on their lives improving, because you're commited to doing just slightly better than the opposition. Don't campaign on promises of anything materially better, only on being paid off by the same interests groups as the "other side", except for the fact you're going to keep doing those things they paid you for - but politely. And if you think that the existence of my argument against your strategy on the internet is going to ruin your chances for it working at all, and you're going to blame those arguing against it for your loss while you're blasting the same old points of "we rape and murder arguably less", then BOY can I figure out the results it's going to bring.

Anyone who was going to vote for the lesser evil is going to do that anyway. Anyone who's on the fence will most likely decide to sit this one out (again). Claiming it's someones moral obligation to vote for terrible (but slightly less) people is going to depress votes, exactly as it did with Harris. Change your strategy or lose.

Just fucking... talk about the affordibility crisis and your plans to end it. About universal healthcare. About how Israel is a bunch on genocidal bastards. Just anything other than this proven, time and again, losing strategy. You have a field full of targets and a loaded gun. Only way you can miss is if you point it at your head. Or go further right to win MAGA voters, I guess...

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