In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people voted.
In the northwest corner of Louisiana, a candidate for parish sheriff is demanding a recount after losing by a single vote in an election where more than 43,000 people voted.
The latest batch of tankie propaganda is that it doesn’t matter if you vote because no election is ever decided by a single vote. Ignoring the hilarity of the people using collective action as an argument saying that, this is why it matters. Because local and even state elections often have ridiculously small margins
Tankies have been on that one for awhile now
They’ll straight up mock you for even suggesting that voting is effective at anything
“you’re stupid if you think that will accomplish anything” and “they are the same party” is pretty old hat.
Haven’t seen the argument that individual votes don’t matter so individuals shouldn’t vote until recently. Is kind of a step up since it plays to the smug factor
I just say to them, “so don’t vote. Not my problem.” They don’t know what to do about that.
I too don’t know how to respond when someone tells me to do exactly what I had planned to do and was advocating for others to do?
We can’t have another 2016.
You are advocating for others to not vote?
No. But by not disputing stupidity, you are
Your witty response is to agree with them
It’s not a witty response. I honestly don’t give a shit if they don’t vote. If they do vote, it will be for someone like Jill Stein or whatever dumbass the Libertarians are running this year, so fuck them.
Voting is the only thing that changes the rules. Protests, donations, volunteering, etc. are all meant to influence voting. Voting is the only thing that works.
No, money can’t buy everything. It can only influence. You are not going to bribe a Republican to raise taxes, or a (real, not fake) Democrat to vote for Trump.
…voting is very much not the only thing. Sure, it’s important, but there’s far far more to politics than just voting.
Protests are definitely not just to influence voting, unless you also mean “influencing politicians to propose and vote for law changes”
Tankie = nice useful idiot for effective pincer maneuver from the right.
While the right galvanizes their voters with “these very limited interventions is communism”
Tankies undermine the left’s enthusiasm: “Not left enough” to make a difference.
Oh yeah? Enjoy the current supreme Court.