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[–] 33 points 16 hours ago (12 children)

It will be if people don’t go out and vote

Every American should vote like their lives depend on it, they just might.

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  • [–] 13 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

    The lives of Pretti/Good depended on it in the last election. Countless others I'm sure.

    Are you sure you'll never be one of the people whose lives depend on Democrats winning control?

    Edit: Pretti not Pretty, the for the correction. A hero deserves to have their name properly spelled

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  • [–] 1 point 11 hours ago (3 children)

    If all you're doing about this is voting you can shut the fuck up about politics tbh. No one's saying not to vote. I'm saying I'm sick to death of hearing about how hard I should vote from a bunch of people who clearly are otherwise doing fuck all.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 child)

    "I whole heartedly agree, but I'm going to be super aggressive about it in a way that says and means nothing to anyone that isn't my own ego."

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    Not really. I halfhearted agree that it's worth taking 5 minutes to go to the polls. I disagree pretty strongly with anyone who makes it their life's work to nag everyone around them in every conversation every two years as though the democrats are running any candidates worth voting for, when they never do.

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  • [+] -17 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

    You do realize they're gonna doctor those votes right? Just like they did two years ago. Voting doesn't matter when the "government" decided what the numbers were.

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  • [–] 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

    When people say shit like this, I have two reactions.

    One, nobody doctored votes 2 years ago, that’s simply a lie, no smaller than Trump’s big lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

    Two, look at what happened this year to Orban in Hungary. He tilted the electoral system to favor him, spent untold amounts of taxpayer money on campaigning for him, effectively destroyed all media not friendly to him, sabotaged every opposition party, and literally bought votes with cash. Then, he lost by a landslide because people stopped voting for him, and voted for someone else instead.

    As hard as it may be to comprehend, Trump and the Republican Party are in power because tens of millions of Americans voted for them. The only way they will go away is people go vote, and vote for someone else. This simple fact doesn’t make all the issues with voter suppression, gerrymandering, and electoral system interference less of a shame, but there is no amount of those things that will keep them in power if people don’t vote for them.

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