• @UckyBon
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    -588 months ago

    It’s why I stopped voting, because everybody else is voting for either side any way.

    • Optional
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      298 months ago

      Your vote is yours to throw away if you want to.

      But it’s kind of an insult to everyone who fought to let you do that.

      • @[email protected]
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        -38 months ago

        No, what is an insult is the American electoral system where at the end of the day, your individual vote means nothing. Your so called representatives do not work for you. They only represent you only paper. They are there to enrich themselves through corporate dollar and stocks, because capitalism and individualism.

      • GodlessCommie
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        -58 months ago

        Our votes do nothing to impact politicians or policy. The needs of capital will always be addressed while we get left over table scraps, that inevitably still benefit capital.

          • GodlessCommie
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            08 months ago

            Joseph McCarthy wants his old tired Russians everywhere tropes back. Democrats voted against Trump and got his policies anyway. Hows that worked out for ya?

    • @FutileRecipe
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      118 months ago

      The trick is to pick the lesser of the two evils.

      • GodlessCommie
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        48 months ago

        50 years of that has produced an evil so large we don’t even recognize evil any longer.

          • GodlessCommie
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            18 months ago

            Doesnt hurt, doesnt help. Voting is more an illusion of participation, complete with an “I Voted” participation trophy.

              • GodlessCommie
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                28 months ago

                My inaction isnt getting Palestinians killed, my inaction hasnt caused the highest spike in homelessness ever seen, my inaction isnt causing a rise in suicides, my inaction isnt causing stagnant wages. If allowing the deaths of brown people is seen as the lesser evil then there is a serious problem with the mental health and empathy of Americans. If the tables were turned and Trump was currently in the WH, liberals would be calling out all the injustices they are currently turning a blind eye to. But the lesser evil they accept year after year, decade after decade, has grown so enormous they can no longer see evil for what it is. They have become the evil they claimed they were voting against

                  • GodlessCommie
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                    18 months ago

                    Making a fuss then electing the same rightwing pieces of shit that got us into this situation and dont represent us isnt progress, its surrender

                  • GodlessCommie
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                    18 months ago

                    I have not attributed to the harm being created by the donor class. People that support and defend the donor class have.

    • @UckyBon
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      -108 months ago

      People here missing my point: vote with your wallets!

      • @[email protected]
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        98 months ago

        The issue with that sentiment is that a significant amount of the population simply can’t afford to be picky. They buy the cheapest available version of whatever they need because that’s what they can afford. All of the power of consumer choice is slowly being stripped away as more and more people are pushed into poverty, and that’s by design.