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    • ExpertisePredicament@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      As a non American, seeing people claim that not voting doesn’t help republicans is fucking hilarious. You’d think that after Trump winning in 2016 and stacking the supreme court, directly being the cause of abortion being outlawed in red states in the fucking 21st century (along with a host of other horrifying things), would make people actually fucking vote. But no here we are. Honestly I really hope you all get the government you want, but the longer I read politics posts on Lemmy the more I’m aghast at people who’d rather let it all burn down than aim for incremental positive change.

      Apologies for any bad English, just putting my thoughts out there.

    • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
      41·
      1 year ago

      I wonder why republicans spend so much time trying to get people not to vote. Purging rolls, being against mail in voting, closing polling stations, etc. Seems dumb given that people not voting doesn’t help them.

      Oh well. You probably know more about elections than them. Glad we have an expert in the house.

        • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
          21·
          1 year ago

          I think my meaning was quite clear. You are a fool if you think suppressing the vote doesn’t help republicans. They’ve bet everything knowing that people not voting is good for them.

          So congrats, you are helping elect our new fascist overlords by not voting for the unpalatable, but not fascist, dude that is on offer. It sucks, but grow the fuck up. Trump winning is going to be a disaster for literally everyone, including Palestinians.

          • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
            04·
            1 year ago

            I’m going to probably be voting for cornel west, but I could still be won back by Jill Stein.

            neither of those votes help Trump

            • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
              4·
              1 year ago

              Cool.

              Great way to throw away a vote against fascism voting for candidates with literally zero chance of winning.

              Look up why the Nazis came to power sometime. Part of it was that people refused to rally around a single countervailing force. Biden is the countervailing force that has a chance of winning. Trump is literally opening quoting Nazis at this point and people aren’t fucking alarmed. smh

                • Drusas@kbin.social
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  As a sincere question, what do you think Trump is going to do that is better than what Biden is going to do when it comes to the genocide in Gaza?

                  Because regardless of who you vote for or who you want to win, it will either be Biden or Trump, unless one of them dies or becomes invalidated. So, how will Trump be better for the Palestinians than Biden will be?

    • Tremble@sh.itjust.works
      1119·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, center right wing democrats have been screaming this at the top of their lungs for so long, young people no longer care.

      They will not vote blue no matter who, and you yelling whatever malarkey you’re on about is kind of pathetic.

      Biden needs to fundamentally change a few things if he wants to get the support of young people. Supporting genocide is not going to win him the election. Not only does Biden support the genocide, he used his authority to give them more weapons and money without having to ask Congress. This isn’t going to fly with young people. And Biden needs young voters to win this election.

      I get it that you’ve been voting blue no matter who your whole life and you think younger voters need to do the same thing.

      But your way of thinking is a relic.