• Asafum@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    If we pray very very hard at the ballot box political Jesus might just not hurt us too much this cycle. Not help us of course, that’s communsocialisvenezuelism or something, but just not hurt us more. That’s what we do :)

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      Until you guys can shake the two party system, the answer is “do both”. Political damage control at election time, and light shit on fire in-between.

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        Yes. This should be obvious. Voting is the fucking bare minimum expected participation.

        All the accounts in left-leaning and anarchist online spaces RN desperately trying to convince Americans not to vote should be regarded with extreme suspicion, especially those newly registered or aged but newly active.

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          And remember to look at a candidate’s voting history (if possible), not their campaign. Political campaigns are often full of lies because they’ll say whatever they think they have to in order to get elected.

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            Too late. The time to do that was during primary elections. Now you only get to choose between (A) voting for whoever won the Democratic primaries you failed to participate in, or (B) sucking Trump’s dick by not voting. Please don’t suck Trump’s dick by not voting.