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Prevention is the best cure (feddit.online)
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A political lawn sign with 3 identical baby Trumps in diapers with the words, "NOT VOTING IS THE #1 CAUSE OF UNWANTED PRESIDENCIES"
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (7 children)

This assumes a person is going to vote for Kamala, because any other vote besides her or trump is essentially the same as not voting.

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

    Generally, the more people vote, the more republicans lose. "Get out the vote" is an anti-republican message in effect, which republicans know and it's why they try to stop people from voting.

    Instead of, you know, being electable.

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

    The Dems have a similar thing going on. It's not "vote for me because I'm a great option", it is "vote for me or democracy dies!". If I only ever had one choice, then democracy is already dead.

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

    Right now, it's more like:

    "Here are my qualities, what I believe in (with a whole website page dedicated to my policies), my experience as a prosecutor, and why the other side is just plain not fit for office."

    Here is the website mentioned above.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Which, again, in a sane world, is really just one choice. This, quite frankly, is the only real bullet in the "both sides are the same" argument.

    I'm not saying Harris isn't qualified; she clearly is.

    What I'm saying is that the Republicans have had years of making their base into good little soldiers that will vote R simply because they aren't D.

    These mouth breathers only see the letter after the name. I can't tell you the number of times that voters came up to me when I was a poll worker and ask me who the "Republicans" were in a local election where the candidates can't have party affiliations.

    Why yes, these were often elderly voters. What made you guess that?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Yeah it's a funny sign but ultimately useless. People who have lived through the last nearly decade dominated by Trump who still aren't voting are either so disengaged that they just don't see fighting Trump as an existential crisis or (and this is a much smaller group) see the system as so inherently fucked that they're just not partaking in it.

    But maybe nobody cares for analysis ruining a perfectly funny lawn sign.

    (Disclaimer: these are just my thoughts on non voters, not my own position. I will be voting, and not for a racist, rapist, fascist)

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