• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    As an American that’s never not voted, I don’t understand these fucking assholes.

    Genuinely… Fuck them. We’re fucked because of the people that don’t vote, not because of the minority of insane MAGA’s.

    The winner of our last presidential election was actually “didn’t vote”.

  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 hours ago

    Uh-oh. I guess this means I should show up to the polls next time. And vote for the less-bad candidate.

    But I hate it. I HATE ALL OF IT.

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    If you don’t vote then you don’t get to complain until the next election.

    You refused to have a say and now you have to live with the consequences. No bitching.

    And you should do that in all elections. Small and big.

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    I want to preface this by saying that I do vote in every election, and I think everyone should exercise their right to vote.

    That being said, both parties are bad. We’re in a class war, and the Democrats are just as beholden/part of the oligarchy as the Republicans are.

    The Republicans are definitely worse than the Democrats. There’s no question there, but what we really need is a fucking revolution.

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    6 hours ago

    Dear Americans, voting for Democrats will get you nowhere, too. I know this is hard, but you will have to start a revolution or vote for a third party in an unprecedented coordinated effort.

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    “Literally the only way”? They tried violent treason and have refused to swear in duly elected reps that are not of their party. If you think they’ll leave when their term is up just because you voted someone else in… the major players aren’t going anywhere. These aren’t the kind of people that gain power and then let it go. Don’t not vote, but don’t believe that’s how we’re getting out of this mess.

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    Try your hardest to create a new party the day after election day. If it fails, vote Democrat and start trying again the next day.

    You have no idea how strongly and passionately I wish to see the day that you guys get a proper multi-party system. What you have right now is super fucked up.

    https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States

    EDIT: Also, yes, Trump and GOP are definitely trying to downright rig elections and that can’t be ignored, of course

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    both sides are bad, but voting for lesser evil is still better than letting bigger evil prosper. But pretending choice between 2 evils is the ONLY option is what is perpetuating this bullshit. And if there truly is nothing to be done except accept your one party system that is split in 2, you need to work on dismantling the whole system instead but that is chemoterapy level option so hopefully it doesnt get to that.

    America needs more parties so people have actually something to vote.

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    I like how people here are trying to have a discussion of whether or not voting third party, or voting at all, is necessary when there are currently concerns (and investigations) of Trump and the Epstein class rigging this last election in the first place. I should also remind everyone that there were similar concerns when Bush first got elected back in 2000. How sure are we that we can rely on voting if that is indeed true?

    Furthermore-- I voted for Harris, but I am fucking sick and tired of voting for Democrats. Fucking sick and tired! They are fucking useless. I voted Democrat these last four presidential elections and it is these Democrats and the party as a whole who helped usher in Trump. It has done nothing but cause problems. Biden carved the pathway for both Trump and Netanyahu to carry on the genocide in Palestine and now in Lebanon. He helped the Israeli government go on this psychotic imperialistic crusade against others like Iran and very soon Cuba. And Greenland. Harris vowed that she would continuing working with the Israeli government if she was elected, and she vowed to have the ICE budget expanded also. Both sides ARE fucking bad. Democrats have done jack shit to try to impeach Trump or 25th amendment him so far despite the child sex trafficking through ICE arrests, nor the outright kidnapping and murders of American citizens on the streets and in ICE encampments. Nor for kidnapping leaders of other countries. The list goes on. Just impeachment alone.

    Most Democrat congressmen are financed by AIPAC just like the Republicans. Whether anyone is liking or not, the Democrats are 1,000% enabling the Republicans, and even if Harris won this last election, we will be dealing with the potentiality that the Republicans would come back in full force by mid-terms or general elections anyway.

    I understand that voting blue no matter who is a way for people to feel as though they are doing something. I still encourage voting. But voting blue no matter who, no matter how bad or how mediocre the candidate is, is clearly not working at all.

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    The Democrats are bad, but the Republicans want you dead.

    Do you really need it spelled out more than this ? VOTE for heaven’s sake.

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    Trash take on a few levels. For one, pointing out grotesque inhumanity in both parties does not keep people from voting. If our words had that kind of power, war would be abolished forever ago.

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    There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to massive wealth inequality. There is no historical precedent for an electoral solution to fascism. If you think voting alone is going to save our country, or the world, you have a problem.