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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 29 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Voting is one of many tools at our disposal - and right now we need all the tools we can get.

So, don't shit on voting - do vote!

Do the other things too, but don't skip the vote.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

You're right that voting is a tool; you're wrong about whose tool it is and what it's used for.

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[–] fishy@lemmy.today 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Vote in the preliminaries, where you can select which bag of shit you'll get to vote for officially. You may even end up with a decent choice on election day off your area is dope like NYC or Seattle.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Even if you're stuck in the cousin-fuckingly-deep south like me, where your vote will almost certainly be washed out by a horde of Nazis: still do it. Especially in smaller elections - school boards, city level stuff, whatever you can get in on. Those are the ones where you can really start to turn the tide. All it takes is for the usual rednecks to start feeling apathetic, and a handful of us bleeding-heart-commie-socialist-hippie-libruls to step up, and BAM, we've got a progressive oasis elected in our desert of red. Which still isn't much, but it's a foothold.

But it does require us to do the bare-assed minimum amount of effort in support of change, which is to vote.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 39 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You should definitely vote but it shouldn't be the only thing you do.

[–] 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml 2 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] Oppopity@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 minutes ago

Yes. Voting is useful for showing solidarity with the movement and demonstrating how the current system doesn't work. Just because it isn't capable of causing any meaningful change doesn't mean it's useless.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 19 points 10 hours ago

how white liberals think fascism works

Chad voting in a UN resolution condemning Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

you're finished

Official portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu

no, pls

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 44 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

bro just one more vote bro, bro I swear just one more vote and it'll fix democracy bro

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 24 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Now's not the time for that we can't afford four years of Vance. We need to hold our noses and vote for Skeletor so we can stop the spread, then focus on progressive issues

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 21 points 11 hours ago

Skeletor, we want to vote for you so Vance doesn't win, but stop supporting Hordak destroying Eternia

Skeletor: Hordak has a right to defend himself

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

you know what hitler? i tried to reason with you but you have left me no choice. i will be voting for somebody else. good luck earning my vote back fuckstick, you’re gonna need it.

[–] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 22 points 12 hours ago

This but the election is between Himmler and Eichmann

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Mamdani just started manufacturing consent for the regime changes in Cuba and Venezuela. 😂

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago

three weeks ago

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 53 points 15 hours ago

Just you wait another few more years and I'm gonna vote so hard it'll make your head spin

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