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[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 28 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

STOP. ELECTING. CAPITALISTS.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah this is way beyond voting. Even in the context of just voting, it's often necessary to vote for a lesser evil. Case in point, all the "Kamala didn't earn my vote!" dipshits who handed Trump the presidency on a silver platter.

You gotta make strategic choices with voting, and sometimes that kinda sucks.

So do that. But also break out the guillotines when the people you voted for start behaving maliciously. That's what we're failing, and that's why things have gone so far shit.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Case in point, all the "Kamala didn't earn my vote!" dipshits who handed Trump the presidency on a silver platter.

That line has been dead for over a year, you need to find a new scapegoat.

[–] Murse@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 hour ago

Not sure what argument you think you're making. If we had a 100% turnout and still had enough people waste their vote on some protest candidate or even directly for Trump as some kind of accelerationist nonsense, the situation would still be what I'm griping about, which is people failing to vote strategically. Nonvoters are only part of the issue.

...and not that it matters, but I don't buy that article's pitch for a second. High voter turnout trends blue. A study can hypothesize to the contrary, but a single study doesn't prove shit (in any context - peer review ftw).

[–] weeeeum@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"Stop voting for those you have no choice but to vote for"

[–] multifariace@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hey! There is usually an honest Christian nationalist further down the ticket you can give your vote.

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] multifariace@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Sadly it is only the tone and not the facts that are sarcastic.