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I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

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[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works 36 points 5 days ago (43 children)

We can now say that anyone who could and didn't vote for Harris in magastan is a genocide enabler.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 24 points 5 days ago

But but but, how were we supposed to know? We were too busy not paying attention to anything important!!

[–] zib@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago (10 children)

I've been saying since the election that anyone who voted for Trump or abstained in protest is complicit in Trump's regime of terror. Trump and his staff spent months on the campaign trail telling the public exactly what they would do when they took power, showing everyone exactly who they are, and now they're doing all of it. No one has the luxury of claiming ignorance.

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[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 6 points 4 days ago

Thanks Kamala

[–] sakodak@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I have problems with people who abstained. The hard thing is, how do you change voter behavior?

I didn't abstain. I voted for a candidate that didn't support genocide while living in a solidly oligarch controlled state. What you would probably call "throwing my vote away."

But no voter had a say in this past election. It was a struggle between the corporatist and oligarch branches of the capitalist class, and the oligarchs threw more money at buying the election.

That's it. No need to vote shame, regardless of if someone did or did not vote. It should be blatantly obvious by now that the Office of the President is (well, was) a rental. Now the oligarchs bought it from the corporatist landlords and plan to remodel and reside in it forever.

There is no war but class war. Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Organize. Let's make voting useful again.

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[–] peregrin5@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Looks like the tankie instances have invaded with their downvotes. Lol. It was pleasant to see the conversation being at least somewhat rational for a while before they discovered this thread.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

The quiet downvote of the tankie is a new one.

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (3 children)

They were mainly upset that we don’t have a choice to not support genocide.

Which just betrays their utter ignorance of US history. Slavery and genocide built this country, of course we’re gonna support it.

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