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Literally the only person who I voted for in a primary who won the general election was fucking Fetterman.
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'Voting is so dumb. I cast a vote and the thing I wanted to happen didn't happen, that proves it does nothing! "
That's quite a take.
It's to most Lemmy ahh take imaginable.
"WAHH I'm a big smart special snowflake, why isn't my vote the only one that matters"
But what if the thing I want never happens?
It might not and you can choose to be defeatist about that but I'd rather keep trying, both by voting and by organizing within my community
hey hey hey...
you're only allowed to engage in ONE side of this argument..
And we wonder why people hate politics…
I just don't know what to do with the ABWD/ Blue MAGA/ Thirdway/ "Vote harder-er" crowd. Like, at no point are you allowed to recognize the fact that the system of elections and reforms is not-functioning: that voting has no practical impact on outcomes in US Democracy.
And there answer is always just some lazy version of pascals wager, but it totally fails to account for the other half of the equation, which is that there absolutely are negative consequences to giving your consent for nothing in return.
If it makes you feel better he's at least 3% better the Dr. Oz would have been. What a fucked timeline.
So voting could only matter if yours is the deciding vote. Makes perfect sense.
Voting only matters if the guy I want wins. And even then only a little.
You realize that is terrible logic, right? That's literally just saying you should never have tried to do anything good unless it worked out the way you wanted in the end.
Our government is built on terrible logic. I’m just trying to adapt to it.