• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    Accurate, but don’t ever let this fool you into thinking voting doesn’t matter.

    Voting isn’t about picking who you like (or worse, who you imagine likes you); it’s about picking your opponent. Public pressure matters. We’ve seen that time and time again. If you think it doesn’t, you’re ignoring history. It’s just a question of how much public pressure is needed; a letter writing campaign, or a general strike.

    What voting does is set the stage for how effective your public pressure will be. And how effective the public pressure of the people working against you will be.

    You’re better off fighting a government that is reticent about your concerns than one that is actively hostile to them. And sometimes your best bet is simply the government that won’t actively make things too much worse while you work on building the movement that can make them better.

    Voting is only one weapon in your arsenal, but you’d be a fool to go into a battle for your survival with anything less than every weapon you can get your hands on.

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    16 days ago

    What’s with all the Russian bots posting these memes to convince people that anyone is comparable to the orange child rapist who bankrupted a casino?

    Anyone who doesn’t understand that there are different levels to malice and incompetence is at the bottom level of intelligence.

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      16 days ago

      what’s with all these braindead liberals wandering into meme comms they aren’t wanted in to bitch about people making fun of their pedophile nazi masters?

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        16 days ago

        Let me guess, you didn’t vote in the last election and you told yourself that your lack of action would somehow magically help end the genocide in Gaza.

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          16 days ago

          no, I voted in every election I’ve been old enough to, and then 20 million democrats stayed home because you don’t give a fuck about minorities since you know the nazis aren’t coming after white people like you.

          but you can sure as hell be certain that after the abysmal performance of last november that I won’t be voting for you shitstains again, because you’ve shown you don’t even have the smallest fucking courtesy to get off your lazy asses for an hour to save a few trans people. fuck democrats, fuck liberals, and don’t expect leftists to protect you when the pogroms start.

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              15 days ago

              What’s with all the “you"s in this comment? Do you feel that the only reason I could possibly disagree with you is if I have something in it? I’m not a fucking politician. I happen to have empathy, which bars me from that career entirely.

              yeah, just not empathy for minorities.

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                  14 days ago

                  I voted for Harris because I assumed 20 million democrat shitwanks wouldn’t stay home. obviously, the hope I put in your party that you would have the basic decency to get off your fucking asses was too optimistic.

                  I won’t make the mistake again, you’ve shown you don’t give a shit about anything when it doesn’t affect you personally.