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Lemmy's political discourse when Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act yesterday: (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

If you market yourself as being against fascism, maybe don't vehemently support a different fascist regime and shout down anyone who questions it.

The fact that people like you are spending your energy getting pissy with the voters and not the fucking Democratic party who refused to change their stance is fucking insane.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    surprise: I can hold two thoughts in my head at once

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Thoughts, sure. You've chosen to spend your time attacking those who wanted change, not the ones who refused to not back the systemic murder of an entire people.

    Priorities.

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

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you didn't realize I'm a different person.

    The two thoughts I hold are "on election day, it's self-gratifying not to vote for the outcome with the highest lows, raising the floor" and "before and after election day, do whatever you can to make the lives of politicians who fail miserable and support better candidates, up to and including civil unrest"

    Not voting is categorically ineffective. There may be plenty of things more effective than voting, but not voting isn't one of them.

    People love to present this scenario like it's a lever with three positions: candidate A, candidate B, or civil unrest. But it's not. It's one switch with two buttons (candidate a, candidate b) and another separate button for civil unrest. You can do both

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