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[–] -2 points 3 months ago* (50 children)

You must have missed this part where you are making your voice heard by picking the least bad option, so here it is again:

On election day you pick the lesser evil, which hopefully all that fighting you did made much less evil.

Or maybe you're confused about how things ought to be versus how they actually are, that too was covered:

We have an archaic election system, and until that changes (work to change it), that’s the best path forward.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (48 children)

    On election day you pick the lesser evil

    I cannot stomach voting for someone who sent billions to commit genocide with. That is my voice, and my opinion. What should I do with that on election day, you think?

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    Good job, the alternative that you and people like you chose by sitting around and doing nothing to prove your superiority is much better! Schoolgirls got bombed! The global markets were disrupted! Elon is a trillionaire! Environmental protections were removed and human lives were valued at 0 by the EPA! Trans people are openly punished and laws are being written to prevent them using public restrooms! Screwworms and measels are returning to the US! The entire planet hates the US (rightfully so and even more than they did before) and historic allies are turning against us! The US openly aligned with Israel and started a war for no reason!

    I'm sure glad you couldn't bear the weight of voting, you're an inspirational beacon and the world thanks you for what you didn't do

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

    You misunderstand. Our current situation is exactly what your proposed strategy got us. You are proposing business as usual politics, and that's exactly what we've been doing for decades. And for decades, things have gotten worse. This is not working. You'd have to be pretty fucking naive to stick to the same strategy that got us to where we are today (full blown fascism).

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

    Wow, it's almost impressive how you are so insanely dedicated to missing the entire point. You obviously are not capable of understanding a damn thing

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

    My guy, your point is not a subtle or nuanced as you think. It's literally the default opinion in a liberal democracy. That's not an indictment of the point, but it does mean I've heard it a thousand times before, and it's not hard to understand. Independently of that it is empirically wrong though.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I never said it was nuanced nor subtle. I've said it as pretty fucking plainly and obviously as I could, and you're still too dense to understand it. You are the reason we're where we are

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  • [–] -4 points 3 months ago (11 children)

    Worry less about election day and more about those 364 days.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

    No, I think I will worry about election day, thank you very much. Voting is one of the most important ways to steer politicians toward working for your benefit. So please tell me, in your world view, what should I do with my voice and opinion on election day?

    Bonus question: if you guarantee your vote to a party, regardless of what they do (such as commit a genocide, such as expand ICE, such as building the border wall, such as keeping Guantanamo bay open, such as never taxing the rich more, and so on), what incentive do they have to listen to you? And follow up, if your answer is that democrats do still work for the electorate, why are they moving further and further right, away from the interests and opinions of most Americans? (This is measurable, see for examples the 2014 paper Testing theories of American politics which found that policy positions of politicians align perfectly with those of economic elites, and with those of average voters really only ever by accident)

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Start with learning the difference between the way things ought to be (they really should- it would be so easy) and the way things actually are. Knowing is half the battle!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (8 children)

    Oh great thanks for the advice! Any chance you have an answer to literally any of the questions I asked?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    You're losing and you know it

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You view conversations as something to be won. How sad.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    This isn't a conversation dumbass

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (3 children)

    Why are you such a negative Nancy all the time?

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