• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “My side fucked me, so I won’t vote for anyone for a couple of years. That’ll learn 'em.”

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      11 days ago

      There’s a good swedish song (made by a kinda generic youtuber, of all things) which states it very clearly: If you don’t vote you have no right to complain. You don’t have to vote strategically, just vote for literally ANYTHING if you want the right to complain.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      5 months ago

      These people have been so brain broken that they will never vote for anyone with a ‘D’ next to their name.

      This person doesn’t even need to mention it, it’s just a given that he will go right to not voting (which I’ll take as a win).

    • bcgm3@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      “Can’t blame me for the death of democracy, I don’t participate.”

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        5 months ago

        I think you’re conflating the RT troll accounts with actual popular opinions… And cause and effect. Even the actual “protest non voters” were upset on behalf of the, you know, active genocide happening to other people.

        That is the functional difference between a conservative and basically everyone else after all, the capacity for empathy and understanding that bad things are still bad when they don’t happen to you personally.

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I love how the only option in his mind is to not vote in the future. Not trying to find the party that represents him, or vote for the other party that protects his views, but just give up entirely on democracy cause of one issue.

    He is a weak person, a weak american, and is one of the problems with this country.

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      5 months ago

      It’s the unironic goal of a two party system. I’ve got beef with right wing “libertarians” but they’re the closest current thing to a viable third party and they don’t even enter this chud’s thoughts.

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        5 months ago

        the closest current thing to a viable third party

        God that’s so sad. Have you ever spoken to a Libertarian? They’re right wing, but somehow even dumber.

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      5 months ago

      In fairness. First past the post necessarily leads to a two party state.

      I’m sorry, but the only option is to single-mindedly campaign for pretentitial voting.

      Voting for another party that protects his views is cute, but totally incompatible with the voting system in place in the US.

      *Disclaimer that I feel entitled to comment on US politics as a citizen of the provinces (Australia)

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          11 days ago

          They aren’t completely equivalent, though it’s pretty close, sadly.

          I agree that it’s better for someone to get involved with a third party, but if that third party’s electoral strategy is to simply try and receive more votes, then they’re actively hurting under the US’ terrible voting system. (This is under the assumption that this third party is less right wing that the Democrats, and that you don’t want the Republicans to win).

          Any third party that is actively campaigning on getting preferential voting across the line by influencing the Democrats from the outside (yeah, first part the post is that terrible that this is necessary), or is revolutionary in nature, is okay in my books.

          The rest are doing active harm because of the spoiler effect.

          “Blue no matter who” is really, really dumb, and people really ought to get involved with groups within and without the Democrats to vigorously push for electoral reform, and better yet the abolition of capitalism and implementation of actual democracy (the US can barely be considered a democracy).

          Parties that just are campaigning on: ‘Hey! Vote for us because we’re better’ with no actual strategy of changing the system are dumb, also.

  • gmtom@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    But the thing is he will totally vote in 2028.

    He will either have simply forgotten, or the republicans will have fabricated some new crisis by then and he will tell himself “well I have to vote or the democrats will force everyone to be non binary and polyamorous!!!”