Off My Chest

1797 readers

66 users here now

RULES:

I am looking for mods!

1. The "good" part of our community means we are pro-empathy and anti-harassment. However, we don't intend to make this a "safe space" where everyone has to be a saint. Sh*t happens, and life is messy. That's why we get things off our chests.

2. Bigotry is not allowed. That includes racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and religiophobia. (If you want to vent about religion, that's fine; but religion is not inherently evil.)

3. Frustrated, venting, or angry posts are still welcome.

4. Posts and comments that bait, threaten, or incite harassment are not allowed.

5. If anyone offers mental, medical, or professional advice here, please remember to take it with a grain of salt. Seek out real professionals if needed.

6. Please put NSFW behind NSFW tags.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

orphiebaby@lemmy.world

orphiebaby@lemm.ee

themeatbridge@lemmy.world

Americans who can vote should not complain about representatives unless they vote. (piefed.social)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by HubertManne@piefed.social to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Its the primaries over here and its peoples chance to choose who will run on the democratic ticket in the general election. You may not like the two party system or the lack of rank choice voting but this is peoples chance to determine who might take governement positions. I hope no one who throws out the democrats don't do enough are voting in the primaries because otherwise they are the reason what we get with democrats is what it is. Primaries because its just one party pretty much doubles the value of ones vote and further since they get less turnout it at least doubles it again. So the vote effect is in excess of 3x at a minimum. Citizenship in the us has two repsonsibilities. Voting and jury duty. Both are important to democracy.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

and thats a fine opinion (mine differs). I don't know why someone would go vote for local and state positions and just refuse in the federal but that is fine (somewhat. it is stil the only step that migh influence the way its run. again if your not doing it then why are you even discussing the irrelvant thing. rather than complaining you should just be like. it sucks but im not going to revolt and have no control of vote outcome). I don't vote for uncontested positions myself. Local is real improtant and people should not skip the judicial part even though it takes a load of research. I mean im not big on leaving the us because I think we have to fight this but if I felt our democracy did not work at all then 100% I would leave.