▲ 939 ▼ Lemmy's political discourse when Republicans gutted the Voting Rights Act yesterday: (thelemmy.club) submitted 4 months ago by Godric@lemmy.world to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world 473 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] neatchee@piefed.social -3 points 4 months ago (1 child) surprise: I can hold two thoughts in my head at once permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] neatchee@piefed.social 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] neatchee@piefed.social 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] neatchee@piefed.social 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 permalink fedilink source parent
