• Dippy@beehaw.org
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        7 months ago

        You best not be in a swing state. We’ll anyway, if you aren’t going to be trying to improve things with the rest of us, shut up and get out of the way

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            7 months ago

            Do you unironically believe that life hasn’t gotten better for literally everyone that’s not a Rockefeller since 1924? I think you may have brain damage. Which is a much more treatable condition than it was in 1920 fucking 4.

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              7 months ago

              Correlation is not causation Life has gotten better because of all the struggles outside of voting

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        7 months ago

        Voting does not change the whims of the powerful. The powerful continue to push their will. Currently that will is massacres and genocide. Genocide Joe does have a nice ring to it. Vote or don’t. The powerful will get their way.

        Voting is easy in my state, so I will. My current amusement is voting against incumbents. Preference is Third Party > Democrat > Republican.

        Beyond the entertainment of voting: keep building mutual aid networks, be a good neighbor and use a pokeball if 2025 gets ghastly.

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          7 months ago

          Well no the powerful won’t get their way if we unite and scare them into submission. Our societies have done this multiple times

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            7 months ago

            I agree that united we can push back. Creating horizontal power structures provide the push. Ideally, dismantling hierarchical power over merely scaring it.

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        7 months ago

        Bro. Some elections are decided by 10s of votes. I live in a city of 12k people, on smaller elections less than a thousand people vote. By simply showing up you are effectively voting for 10-12 people. It takes like 10 minutes, and ballot measures alone make it worth while.

        If you don’t vote you’re just accepting what those who did vote collectively voted for.

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          7 months ago

          I don’t accept shit. I oppose the whole system and I live my life in way meant to destabilize it.

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            6 months ago

            Hahaha you don’t vote to try to destabilize the system. You realize a large percentage of Americans never vote right? Not voting isn’t special at all !

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            7 months ago

            I’m sure those women facing prosecution for seeking a medically necessary procedure will find great comfort in knowing about your destabilization efforts, as they endure their noble suffering in coming years.

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                  7 months ago

                  So? This will just be reversed in a few years. In the long term, these votes mean nothing, The progress to fascism through liberal voting is inexorable.

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                    7 months ago

                    “The progress to fascism through liberal voting is inexorable, you understand” I explain to the sixteen year old child, victim of sexual assault, forced to carry her unviable pregnancy to term in 2025.

                    Yuck.