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Forgive my ignorance please, I'm not an american. I see these posts often on reddit and lemmy, but shouldn't these posts be displayed on tiktok, billboards, or anywhere that those poeple who don't vote frequent? Is there any stat at all to show whether such posts work?
I will give people the benefit of the doubt and assume that voting simply isn't convenient or accessible to them.
Offer voting by phone, website, or app, and then see what the numbers look like.
I'm Canadian, and the last time I voted it was at a place that you basically needed to drive to. And take time off work to get to. Super inconvenient, despite my motivating to vote being high.
If it were an option by phone or website, I'm sure far more people would, because they don't have to disrupt their lives for something that takes 5 seconds to do.
I should be able to vote by texting a phone number. Remember how they used to do American idol voting by texting a number. It should be something like that.
Dear US Americans,
please vote for anything that speeds up the downfall of your country.
Sincerely everyone outside of the USA.
I'm voting Democrat like I always do. I remember being the only non-right wing senior citizen looking person at my polling place for Hilary Clinton when no one showed up. Not with any hope, just so I can say I voted against gleeful hatred.
I'm just pissed that I will never, ever get a vote against market capitalism, as it controls both parties on economic policy and we only get a vote on how to manage the social issue symptoms it causes.
If you keep the left in power your can steer them left, if the right gets in power you reset your progress to 0
That's right reader. YOU are responsible for this nightmare. If only you ~~recycled your plastics more~~, ~~used a non plastic straw~~, shouted at your peers to vote, you could have prevented this hell hole. So hold yourself personally responsible and then push that anxiety and stress onto others without any nuance. Cause if you can prove your moral goodness maybe the world might be heaven without any work other than checking a box.
This is not really at all accurate math and it won't change the people happily voting the other way. Or the Electoral College. Or the ridiculous amount of bribes, corruption and party politics.
I hate this photo for so many reasons and I also think voting should be a mandatory holiday. I just refuse to pretend that this idea that it would fix everything because you yelled at enough people to ~~pray harder~~, vote more.
“I’m not going to vote because democrats aren’t communist which makes them basically republicans” - average Lemmy.ml user
Jk it’s actually something more like “I’m not going to vote because I’m European”
But I thought Russians were voting in us elections? 🤔
Eastern European specifically.
Even more specific?
As east as you can get in Europe :)
Our voter turnout is shameful. And oh man, the primary elections turnout... (Chefs kiss) Abysmal.
I remember when dems had the presidency and both houses and did nothing stated here.
That's more complicated than a simple meme. If you have a party with 1/4 far left, 1/2 moderately left, and 1/4 basically moderate conservatives, it doesn't matter that you have a majority, those moderate conservatives will still hold up any progress, but that's not the fault of the other 3/4 of the party.
kids are force fed the bible
Well that can't be true
Republicans are strongly against feeding children after all