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We'll have a long memory as things get worse for working class Americans, minorities and women (lemmy.world)
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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Abstaining or voting third party is an exercise of choice. If you want your candidate to win, vote for them, as we all should do.

Vote for the candidate you support. If you don't support any, you can choose not to vote.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Abstaining is the pinical of lazyness, it is my opinion that those who do not participate give up their right to complain about politics until the next election. If you like none of the candidates write in Batman, spoil your ballot by drawing dicks on it, I dont care, you showed up and that alone is the important part.

    And before you what-about-ism areas where voter supression is happening or heavily gerrymandered districts? Yes, this is a problem that must be fixed, but not participating also dosent help that either.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Decisions are made by those who show up. That’s what it boils down to. I always see it like this: even if I don’t get the result I want, I’ll at least have the satisfaction that my vote cancelled out someone else’s who’s voting against my interests.

    So make sure you show up, or someone else who DOES gets to decide for you.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Vote for the candidate you support. If you don’t support any, you can choose not to vote.

    Yes, those are all choices. Just know that everyone else understands the reality of what your vote (abstention) actually means in practice. So just know that you're being judged.

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