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196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can't believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C'mon guys

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Browbeating people into voting is not helpful.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (40 children)

Whats the point? To chose between disney fascist and a consevative fascist?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Vote for an independent candidate. People have this wild notion that voting for a third-party candidate means you're throwing your vote away.

You're not. You're voting for the candidate that best represents your values. People who say otherwise have fallen for the brainrot talking point that's been around since Ross Perot ran in '96.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Americans: do what you want in the primaries. Vote for Biden in the general, because he will be the nominee. I am not stoked about that, but that’s the choice our system gives us.

Non-Americans: please, please do a bit of research on how weird and fucked up and fractious our electoral system is before going off on someone for voting “undecided” in the primaries, which is how I voted myself. Compared to the nationally-organized stuff you guys seem to mostly rely on, ours could charitably be described as “intentionally byzantine”.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it's almost like the US is running a software written in the 1700s and that stopped receiving regular updates around the 1960s

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago

That’s… actually not a bad way to describe it.

Also note that we stopped updating our BIOS in 1929, which is the direct cause of this.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

its funny(?) how i only see posts criticising ppl for not voting/voting third options but i dont currently see anyone actually advocating for doing that

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Might depend on how you sort or what instances you have blocked. I've seen a few personally, although not in blahaj.zone as far as I can remember.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Not vote squad was in this very apartment😞

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[–] [email protected] 147 points 9 months ago (27 children)

Seriously. I get feeling like you don't have much of a choice, but not voting is just giving up. Like, you're actively removing the little choice you have and handing democracy over to an overt fascist.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Literally

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

Literally, indeed. (An up vote wasn't enough)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

unexpected commentary to come from a mod.

based tho. https://www.vote.org/

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago (2 children)

With some of the rhetoric I was seeing I felt like it was my responsibility to say something.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago

On the other hand, not voting or voting uncommitted in the presidential primary is completely fine. Literally no issue with that

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