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[–] [email protected] 24 points 21 hours ago (9 children)

I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

There is evidence to support widespread vote suppression is occurring by "vigilantes" knocking people off the voter registry amongst other tactics

[–] _stranger_ 22 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

A third of the eligible voters didn't vote. If they had, this tiny marginal bullshit wouldn't matter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 20 hours ago

Separate reply, this isn't tiny marginal bullshit, we're talking millions of votes

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

In American politics, it doesn't matter who you vote for, you're still getting fucked! Like choosing a broom and a stick to get fucked with.

what needs to change is the way that voting work. Or at least people to vote for someone less embarassing than Harris and less facist than trump and a lot less in favor of the capitalists in general (Bernie my beloved).

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[–] PugJesus 32 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

One of those things where both

  1. Nonvoters who complain that Democrats aren't doing enough to protect them are exactly the kind of entitled twats who attack what meagre defenses we have against fascism, and then whine (blaming those same defenses they themselves worked to undermine) when fascism attacks them.

AND

  1. Dems who do nothing in this period are inex-fucking-scusable, if predictably adhering to their norms-based civility politics schtick which plays so well with suburban white folk; and Dems in general are only interested in reform insofar as public opinion forces them to support it, and not an inch further.

are true.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 12 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

Everyone is constantly making excuses for the Democrats, but if a political party had zero power except for four months out of forty fucking years you'd think we'd at least try to replace them.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

While some people don’t vote out of apathy, others are a target of indirect disenfranchisement that prevents the working poor from voting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Others still do it because of religious dedication to the accelerationist belief that making the human experience worse will magically cause the working class to gain class consciousness and revolt. You know. Like has never occurred in recorded history...

[–] Majorllama 11 points 21 hours ago (28 children)

Democrats do anything but take accountability for their mistakes any% Speedrun challenge (impossible).

Jokes aside at what point do you stop pointing the finger at everyone else and recognize that you just fucked up? Political parties aren't owed votes. They have to earn votes.

The Democrats failed to earn enough votes against Trump TWICE.

I don't even wanna hear some shit about it being a rigged election or anything. The right was screaming about 2020 being rigged for 4 years and y'all kept telling them it was ridiculous and they just need to suck it up because they lost.

The Democrats will lose again in 2028 if they do not make serious changes up and down their party.

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[–] tdawg 19 points 23 hours ago

The results at my last city vote was depressing. We had 20% turn out. Twenty! And we have mail-in by default here

Thankfully the people who did vote voted for the positive changes we need but it's not hard to imagine how easily 20% of the population can be easily swayed

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