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Three white men (i.redd.it)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I voted Harris and I voted Biden, and I’ve literally never been able to have a discussion about how blaming non-voters is both stupid and nonproductive without someone coming in hot to unload their election related emotional trauma on me like you just did.

Check your assumptions about people and why they believe what they believe. Or just keep screaming at anyone that says your trigger phrase, it seems to be working wonders.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

    Cool.

    If you can't see how practical decision making works I don't want to talk to you. Apparently you understand it, but still want to apologize for those who cant.

    I don't have to blame non voters, but I can honestly say screw them. 3 more years and change of this to teach that party against Orange Hitler a lesson for not being good enough. I hope it's worth it and they don't all get to take their cute blahaj stuffies to federal summer camp.

    Edit: To be extra clear, I don't blame non voters exclusively for this situation we are in, but I resent them for it, find it totally stupid, and don't have a lot much sympathy for any consequences a non voter walks into.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    If you can't see how practical decision making works

    You mean like the people in blue states who know their electoral vote is going to be blue no matter what? Or the people in deep red states who know it won’t be blue even if every Democratic voter in an adjacent state came over and voted blue? Even though it literally wasn’t possible for them to change the election outcome no matter how they voted?

    Is that the kind of practical decision making we’re talking about?

    Because that sure sounds like voting as a performative religious rite, and that shit is stupid. People in solid red states* were never going to win blue electoral votes, anyone insisting otherwise literally doesn’t understand how presidential elections work in the US. Same for anyone who thinks some leftist in New York was putting America in peril by voting third party.

    * Except Nebraska, which splits its votes based on district rather than whole state only.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    You've got options. You can vote swap, you can move, or sure you can bemoan the system, but let's be real:

    This is totally in no way what you or the other guy are arguing above. It would even be relevant if we werent such an obvious attempt at an out from the discussion.

    The people no voting are not doing it as a fight against the electoral voting system. It's smug ass, holier than thou, if I can't vote for the perfect candidate I'll take my ball and go home and trump (or whatever authoritarian may show up here or in any other country) isnt my fault.

    Yeah, sometimes voting a performative ritual. If you show up and tell us how you justify not voting against tyranny when it's got any chance of being the alternative to people getting shot and you still look like an asshat.

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