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claim 1: “voting doesn’t change anything”Never forget the recent case of Kris Mayes, who refuses to uphold the Arizona supreme court’s sweeping ban of abortion.

Kris Mayes only won her 2022 election by 280 votes. Voting changes things.

claim 2: “but genocide joe”Yep. Hold that fucker’s feet to the fire. He has blood on his hands

But trump has promised to be indisputably worse.

I won’t tell you how to vote. I just encourage you to vote. You’re not radical for ditching the only miniscule right the state has granted you to do some small aid for your neighbors.

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[-] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If your vote doesn't matter so much, why are so many people telling us not to vote?

^^because ^^it ^^does ^^matter

Vote!

[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

AMEN 💯💯💯

all this dialogue is also such a huge spit in the face to the women and POC who FOUGHT for the right to vote. yes, it’s a right with limited scope and fraught with corruption. but to discount it altogether on the public stage is so fucking disingenuous.

[-] assassin_aragorn 8 points 1 week ago

"Voting doesn't change anything, it's pointless and things won't get better"

Woman's suffragists, civil rights protestors, and gay rights protestors: "Are we a fucking joke to you?"

[-] jeffw 51 points 1 week ago

I’ve seen elections tied that had to go to a coin toss. This flipped the government of a nearby town. Every vote matters.

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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'll have a voting against trump is important with a side of fuck you genocide joe.

[-] magnusrufus 12 points 1 week ago

That's good as long as it's acknowledged what the only viable method of voting against Trump is.

[-] problematicPanther 9 points 1 week ago

fuck joe biden. but at the same time, fuck dolan more. I'd rather have 4 more years of relative calm with a shithead that nobody likes than to be subjected to another 4 years (at a minimum) of the crazy shit which is a trump presidency.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

I'll take the lesser of the two evils and I will vote Blue, but I wish the Dems would have found a younger candidate. At least the Democrats are not crying about suspending the US Constitution. If you vote for Putin's Sock Puppet, you're voting for a dictator.

[-] Eldritch 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Beyond regularly voting in solidarity. We need to start running these younger better candidates ourselves. Republicans run unopposed in many places on state ballots. And Democrats have spent roughly the last decade ignoring these positions. We might not win all or even a large chunk of them. But we could by accident when a few and start building new coalitions from there. Making inroads into places that had given up on getting better. Voting is only the first step.

[-] Ensign_Crab 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And Democrats have spent roughly the last decade ignoring these positions.

Michelle Vallejo is 32. Democrats cut her funding in her election against Monica De La Cruz in the crucial last month, during an election cycle in which the party did ad buys for MAGA candidates.

Younger, better candidates run. Party leadership prefers a maga chud to a progressive in any given position.

Vallejo is running again. I hope she has alternate funding this time.

[-] grue 11 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that's the real issue here: neoliberals are more comfortable with fascism than progressivism or socialism, but most of the younger generation is (justifiably) disillusioned with liberalism, so of course the neoliberals Democratic Party is having a hard time finding candidates it wants to support.

The solution, of course, is to kick out the fucking neolibs that have a stranglehold on the party, but that's easier said than done.

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[-] Ensign_Crab 16 points 1 week ago

I’ll take the lesser of the two evils and I will vote Blue, but I wish the Dems would have found a younger candidate.

I'll vote for the lesser of two evils and don't care one bit about his age. But I consider his support for genocide to be morally repugnant, and bitterly resent being manipulated into a position where my vote renders me monstrous.

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[-] pjwestin 33 points 1 week ago

According to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN, the Obama administration absolutely committed war crimes. Voting matters, and no matter what you think of Biden he is infinitely better than Trump, but don't roll your eyes and pretend that the people complaining about extrajudicial murder-robots are crazy. Credible institutions believe Obama violated international law with his drone program, you don't get to pretend that's fake because you don't like it.

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

One person is a politician, and one is a rapist con artist. I'll take the politician please.

[-] Jeanschyso 12 points 1 week ago

In Quebec, we have a saying that I would like to share with you. It comes from our love for complaining. We are completely addicted to complaining about everything. It's our third national sport after Hockey and curling.

"If you don't vote, you can't complain"

If you vote for a person and they don't do the promised thing, you can complain. You have an ~~excuse~~ reason.

If you vote for a person and someone else gets elected, you can complain that the person you voted for would have done a better job.

If you do NOT vote, you didn't do shit. You didn't do the strict minimum. You have no excuse to complain about any of it, because you did not participate in the decision.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It is rather convenient that 2024 is the year everyone is choosing to be upset about dead Palestinians, but double tap drone strikes are definitely a war crime.

https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

i mean the title genuinely. obama did war crimes. that is a true unironic statement.

let me see about editing the title it seems to be causing confusion.

edit: okay fixed. i do want to push back on your statement tho. everyone is NOT suddenly getting mad about dead palestinians. people have been pissed about the apartheid regime in israel for decades. be careful with your assertions here.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil 8 points 1 week ago

It is rather convenient that 2024 is the year everyone is choosing to be upset about dead Palestinians

Talk about your daring takes.

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[-] blazera 9 points 1 week ago

who's saying voting doesnt change anything?

[-] Speculater 53 points 1 week ago

The people who don't want you to vote.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

And Republicans who know better and want you to stay home. They're the same ones who lie about the date of the elections.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

enough to be scary for someone who doesn’t like seeing human rights stripped

[-] NeptuneOrbit 13 points 1 week ago

The fish in the meme

[-] Theprogressivist 13 points 1 week ago

A bunch of assholes, not limited to Lemmy. You'll see them pop up soon.

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