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This is what I think every time I see someone on here haughtily saying that the Democrats need to EARN their vote. The Democrat politicians are wealthy and will be just fine if they're voted out of office - it's you and everyone else who isn't wealthy that will be fucked over.
In other words, protest votes are an expression of privilege.
Absolutely.
I’m largely convinced most “dems” threatening to withhold their vote are bots and trolls.
This election is between two well known candidates with presidential records. There’s no earning. You’re either one side or the other.
They're usually not self-declared Democrats. Some may be trolling, but there are plenty of people who don't seem to understand how FTPT voting works, since they're always incensed when it's said that if they don't vote for Biden, they're helping Trump (with the assumption that Biden is less bad to them than Trump). That, or they just value feeling like they were morally correct more than real-world consequences.
Then that means that the vast majority of the Lemmy userbase, including the mods and admins, are bots and trolls.
Not disagreeing with you, just lamenting the absolute shitpile that the threaded Fediverse seems to be. I just wanted decentralized social media.