• TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s our jobs as voters to be informed. Being informed means understanding the impact of your vote. That’s an entirely separate issue from putting pressure on politicians to do the right thing. We should be doing that, but not at the expense of destroying society, which is what’s happening now.

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      3 days ago

      putting pressure on politicians to do the right thing

      Essentially, the only time you can put real pressure is when you vote.

      i don’t think abstaining was necessarily the right move, shortsighted but not immoral.

      More importantly, now that it’s over, bitching about the voters exercising their right over fucking genocide of all things, instead of the corrupt pieces of shit that actually forced the genocide issue is simply insane imo.

      What’s funny is all the absolute and complete morons that chant ‘you have to vote for genocide, just ignore it next time’ are the same that question how the right could vote for a convicted felon and pedo.

      The fact is, the party has to change, it’s not up to voters to accept genocide. The fault lies enteriely on them for making it a voting issue in the first place.

      And if they don’t change because half the base is ready to blame someone else, then they will lose again.

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        3 days ago

        You fucking people always think you can vote third party and not fuck the country but that never has panned out

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          You fucking people think you can railroad the voters and still have an enthusiastic electorate willing to vote for whatever you order them to.

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          I think not voting third party is stupid. I also think abstaining is as well.

          The root cause of the issue is still the Democrats platform last election and the complete alienation of their voters which led to a low turnout.

          We wouldn’t have Trump currently if they had just told Israel to pound sand. Killing civilians was more important then winning an election apparently. Lucky them, they have a convenient scape goat so they can do it all again in a few years

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            Ah yes, the magical “let’s withhold our votes and yell”. That has always showed them. Or maybe it did… once?

            Nope.

            No one is dumber than a third party voter.