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Makes me feel a bit better about my general political anxiousness.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

After Sunday a wave of comforting calm descended over me.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How many of these people do you think exist? Ballpark is fine if you don’t have an exact count.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

If you really want to know what they're thinking, go to https://patriots.win to find out.

Get ready to meet r/the_donald again.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I love how their posts are either boiler-plate conservatism or deranged conspiracies and cultish behavior, with no in between.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

What the fuck is this trash?

Elon Muskrat being trash

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Holy shit. That place feels like it's drones mindlessly repeating the same mantra over and over again, word for word and in random order. Theres not one coherent conversation going on.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Never assume that they are doing what you would do. They live in a separate reality where they are consistently superior to, and yet somehow also constantly oppressed, by others.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Good reminder for everyone to vote.

just under 50% of people voted in Ohio in the 2020 election.

Trump won by 8%.

If just 9% of the people who felt like you (what’s the point of voting) had showed up to vote for Biden, that would have flipped the state.

No single raindrop believes it can make any difference. But together, all those insignificant raindrops can change the course of a river in a single day.

~ https://lemmy.jmtr.org/post/613802/1924144 via /u/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

As a Californian, my vote for president is practically moot, but I still vote because my votes for state and local elections are much more impactful, and I try to do at least enough research that I’m not stabbing in the dark, and if I don’t feel informed enough, I leave that one blank.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This comment is beautiful. Always vote.

Less, beautiful, more wordy:

  1. Even if you don't manage to flip a seat, your neighbours who feel the same hopelessness as you will look at the results at some point. Your vote will make them know they are not alone. It matters.
  2. Any change in the right direction is significant, and worth fighting for - voting for it is a no-brainer. The margins might make the difference between people voting or giving up staying at home at the next election.
  3. They won't you to believe you shouldn't even bother. Don't fall for it.
  4. Georgia flipped the Senate seat in '22, for the first time since the 90s. It's possible.

Go vote, folks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If voting didn't matter, Republicans wouldn't try so hard to stop people from voting

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Don't stress over something you can't control

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you think they're stressed?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The slight possibility a BLACK WOMAN could be president 😱😱😱😱😳😨🫨😬

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

She is? Oh. Anyway.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh ... Guess I was really overthinking the question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Na, their hatred of anything that isn't a white Christan will sustain them.