• PoastRotato@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    What does not participating accomplish, exactly? Even if I’m unlikely to succeed, between a 0.0001% chance and a 0% chance, I’m going for the 0.0001% every time.

    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus
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      We stop wasting time picking the least evil and just do this to all evil in the country? Not voting doesnt mean we aren’t grabbing pitch forks and torches. Because its about time to do just that. The emperors can’t even pretend they have clothes on anymore. This is worse than Rome in the final days.

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      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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        We stop wasting time picking the least evil and just do this to all evil in the country? Not voting doesnt mean we aren’t grabbing pitch forks and torches. Because its about time to do just that.

        By your own admission you can’t even be bothered to vote, but you’ll absolutely for sure 100% immediately jump off the couch to grab a pitchfork and a torch to do whatever your non-voting wouldn’t do for you, all in unspecified and non-quantifiable ways against vague, undefined targets that clearly, even vehemently require the physical application of pitchforks and torches for positive, yet unspecified change, because “it’s about time” for that.

        Lol, okay.

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          Where did I admit that? You’re making shit up. I voted. And got punched in the dick by the democrats because they went all “WE ARE THE STRONGEST MILITARY, LOOK AT THE CHENEYS” come the fuck on dude it should have been in the fucken bag but they’re so idiotic they couldn’t understand people wanted change, any change, and they wanted it enough to harm everyone to get terrible change. Thats not my fault. Thats a failure of leadership.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      What does not participating accomplish, exactly?

      If the election is being rigged at the state and judicial levels, participating and not participating have the same effect.

      Screaming at people to go participate, then blaming naysayers for the election loss, just plays into the Republican claims that they have a legitimate majority and elections are functioning as popular referendum.

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        In this context a “rigged election” just means trying to prevent anti-GOP voters from voting.

        If you don’t try to vote you are willfully giving the GOP what they want without them having to rig the elections.