• Lemminary@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Just like the “men would do anything but go to therapy” meme, Americans would rather install malware on their phones than get out to vote.

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        16 minutes ago

        >never votes because he doesn’t think his vote matters

        >awful politician gets elected because he didn’t vote

        See guys? Voting doesn’t work!

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          5 hours ago

          As a Canadian, I honestly believe your election was rigged and has been since 2000.

          Corporations own your country, it’s very obvious. The only way you can influence your government at this point is collective action which will never happen cause you have iPhones to use to get your anger out.

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            I’m not disputing your theory, in fact I think it’s likely but how do you think they’re actually doing it?

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          In swing states, yes. But for the majority of americans not in a swing state, their gripes are at least somewhat valid thanks to gerrymandering.

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            Gerrymandering has been a huge problem for a while, what makes you think this time it played a pivotal role in Trump’s victory? If that was the case, he would have won the electoral vote but not the popular vote, but he won the popular vote, first Rep pres to do so in 20 years apparently. It helped secure past Rep presidencies, but doesn’t to have done so this time around.

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            1 hour ago

            Harris: 75,012,178 votes
            Trump: 77,302,416 votes
            Source

            3 million people voted third party, nearly 90 million people didn’t vote at all- and you blame democrats….
            Source

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              If it wasn’t for Hillary’s pied Piper strategy, Trump never would have been elevated with billions of dollars in free media to become president. If it wasn’t for Kamala Harris embracing right-wing politics and every policy of bidens that the public opposed, we wouldn’t have Trump right now. Democrats are toxic poison and are their own worst enemy

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            Lack of resistance is why Trump won. Democrats are part of that, but the blame hardly lies on them alone.

            Votes do matter, they’re just not enough on their own.

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              It’s hard to claim lack of resistance when the entire party was shifting to the hard right trying to attract that hard right vote. They cozied up to war criminals, cops zionists and the right wing while blowing right-wing dog whistles there was no resistance

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            When the options are “capitalist party that will kill more people” and “capitalist party that will kill fewer people,” the answer is obvious

            You could not vote, or you could vote third party, but when 97% of the country agrees that one of these two capitalists is gonna win, you have to try and make sure that the less evil one does

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              How’s that incrementalism working out for you? Your party implied that small baby steps would march to the left, your party is barely to the left of trump. You were advocating and pushing for your own country’s shift to the right and further and deeper into fascist authoritarianism. Your party has shifted from people that are building houses for the homeless around the world to embracing cops and zionists on their party stage while blowing Republican dog whistles. Hoping to get the Republican vote while welcoming war criminals with open arms into the party

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                First: not my party

                Second, how’s your apathy/voting for a third party in a system where that literally hurts your own goals working for you?

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                  Don’t confuse refusing to vote for a party that does not represent the working class as apathy. That’s like telling a Democrat they’re apathetic because they won’t vote for a Republican