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It makes peace with voting for the Biden (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: new and improved image, now with 100% less support! Used my expert photo editing skills to change "supporting" to say "voting for"

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 8 months ago (16 children)

[–] [email protected] 94 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (11 children)

I'm going to copy /u/kiniz0r's comment from a few months ago because I think it's extremely perceptive and accurate:

People have a fucked-up understanding of voting in the US. You are not voting for the person you agree with. You are voting for the person you’d rather negotiate with.

If you actually care beyond the aesthetics of whether you did the cool thing or not, you have to think about the function of what you’re doing and not just whether it feels good.

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Your political choices shouldn't be performative, they should be as effective as possible in the present.

You do the best you can with what you have.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My favorite analogy is that voting is like taking the bus, just because it doesn't drop you off in front of your house, doesn't mean you're better off walking.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

And also - do you want the next bus or the last bus?

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