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Yeah, that's not true at all. The hundreds of millions spent on voter mobilization, get out the vote, rock the vote, voter education, voter registration, and all attendant campaigns is such an obvious massive counter to your inispid narrative.
And yet voter turnout is consistently low.
Because voters have figured out that voting doesn't fucking matter. Once you realize that a) the country has always been run by a single fascist bloc b) with multiple fascist factions fighting for control and c) fronted by two PR firms with subsidiary PR firms that drive psychological manipulation of voters into believing that d) this time it really is the most important election in history and e) voting will fix it and f) if you vote correctly then the fascists you put in power will stop being fascist and g) actually make structural change - once that becomes obvious, voting is just not something people are motivated to do. And to be clear even people like me who believe all those things vote in vast numbers because it is a ritualized symbol and it has implications in social situations and dynamics. And even still huge numbers of people just don't vote, which means massive numbers of people understand that the system is fully irredeemable.
Oh fuck you're an ml bot. Not worth engaging with. Buhbye MAGAtankie shitbird.
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You're right Zohran Mamdani didn't win NYC mayor. Fuck off bad faith troll. Who you working for?
Sewer socialists have a long history of winning in the USA, and also of being outmaneuvered entirely by the fascists in both parties, purged, and having nearly all of their progress completely undone.
The purpose of those programs is to increase turnout, not cater to the political leanings of likely non-voters. Dems don't give a shit what those people want they just want them to vote because statistically they would vote for Dems. The issues important to those voters rarely come up which is exactly my point.
I don't really expect a well reasoned response from someone going around saying things like "Europe can save Ukraine by disbanding NATO" though. Pull your head out of Putin's ass and have your own thoughts.
LOL. You're fucking amazing. You came to the conclusion that voter turnout programs only exist because they want voters to vote for them but literally won't do anything that those voters want? That's your conclusion? You couldn't reason your way out of a paper bag. Which makes sense because you think an American who has been raised by Americans in America and consumed all the same anti-Russian propaganda you have consumed our whole lives is somehow having someone else's thoughts when they have thoughts that disagree with the propaganda you and I have both been raised on. You are doing the meme.
If Dems primary concern is the will of their voters then why are they constantly doing things the majority of their voting base disagrees with? You're acting like Dems know exactly what the people want when the central political problem in America for the last 15 years is that they either don't know or don't care.
Also, if your own thoughts are not Russian propaganda then why is what you're saying matching Russian propaganda word-for-word? Disbanding NATO doesn't help anyone but Russia and somewhere in that brain of yours you know that. You're twisting words to make unreasonable things sound reasonable on both of these issues
Oh, sorry, so you're saying Dems are constantly doing things their voting base disagrees with? So then why should people vote for them? You're not making a strong argument for your position there.
You think Russian propaganda is the only source of anti-NATO sentiment in the entire world? Have you heard of Heusinger? Are you aware of the controversial decisions to staff NATO with Nazi officers? Heusinger was never even tried at Nuremberg.
Pretty sure it would've helped the Libyans if the "defensive" alliance that waged an offensive war on them didn't exist.
NATO is a tool of neocolonialism and there are countless neocolonies around the world that it harms. Even if it were "defensive" (which it absolutely isn't) it maintains an oppressive status quo over the global majority and gives member states the ability to attack wantonly, without fear of retaliation.
Well yeah, obviously bullies only bully the nerds because the Anti-Bully Club is so anti-bully. If the Anti-Bully Club just disbands instead of defending nerds, then the bullies will have no reason to keep bullying the nerds! Duhhh! (/s)
You'll never get good faith engagement with ml so all you can do is try to piss em off and waste their time.
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