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Because who needs to thoughtfully engage with arguments about the utility of electoralism, when you can smugly make a bingo card, and pretend that you won?

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[-] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 64 points 4 months ago

Lol few people are against reading as much as libs.

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 45 points 4 months ago

It's why they get all their political views from superhero movies

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 41 points 4 months ago

BeamBrain, look what you've done. You made her tear up.

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 58 points 4 months ago

Ok I'll vote for communism then

[-] ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

I tell them I'll probably vote for Claudia because she aligns most closely with my political tendencies, and they STILL get mad at me. Bruh, you told me to vote lmao

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

"We exist in a 2 party system! Be realistic!"

[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

"Okay, if that's the case then the most realistic thing I can do is a protest vote against Biden and for the GOP because that way I'm making the effect of my vote on the Democratic party have at least double the impact.

If the Dems want my vote they have to earn it but until that happens not only are they losing one vote but they're getting one vote for the opposing party.

I will encourage other voters to engage in protest voting this way so we can form a bloc to affect change in the most realistic and pragmatic way under this system. We will lobby for change and hold the entire system hostage in the same way that the Dems and their supporters are attempting to hold us hostage. Turnabout play is fair.

Thank you for helping me to understand that voting is powerful and how it's crucial to democracy."

[-] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Honestly the most success I have ever had arguing with libs has been because I threaten to use my single vote against them specifically out of spite.

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[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 51 points 4 months ago

didn't vote in the primaries

Oh yeah there were so many options to choose from. Let's see. There was genocide Joe, a guy from Minnesota who dropped out but whose name was on the ballot still, and write in.

So many choices!

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 46 points 4 months ago

I love how half of these are just being upset someone was rude to them

[-] ThisMachinePostsHog@hexbear.net 39 points 4 months ago

Not acknowledging any election other than the presidential general

I check out every ballot in my local district. But all of the Democratic candidates support Israel, cops, and the military, so I don't bother voting for them.

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

For real. I don't know who they think they're talking about, but every leftist I know still at least looks at all the elections. Probably moreso than any lib. Libs think voting every four years is the pinnacle of political action but I guarantee none of them go to every local election.

I don't even believe in electoralism but I usually go if there's something worth voting on or against.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 36 points 4 months ago

This is just someone posting a tapestry of their Ls?

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

It's always a reactionary posting their Ls, always. hahaha

[-] edge@hexbear.net 35 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

B

  1. No, your shitty candidate is the reason
  2. Yes
  3. What other actions have you taken? What use were they?
  4. Voters have the memory of a goldfish. The current guy is bad (as always) so they vote for the other guy.
  5. Marx, Lenin, Parenti, probably a bunch of others.

I

  1. Yes
  2. Yes
  3. Yes
  4. Sacrificing thousands of Palestinian lives for your own benefit is selfish.
  5. Yes

N

  1. No, but it should at least not actively make things worse.
  2. You're the one trying to convince people to do something, if you're an asshole about it they probably won't want to do it. We don't care either way.
  3. Yes
  4. Yes
  5. Not necessarily, but it is saying you're fine with their big policies, like genocide.

G

  1. It doesn't matter whether you vote, but I will think less of you for doing so.
  2. It doesn't, but neither does voting.
  3. "My guy's genocide isn't as bad" isn't the argument you think it is.
  4. Literally every election at all levels is the same: center-right lib vs right wing lib. We've tried multiple times to change that by voting for center-left libs in primaries, but you have resisted us every time, and those center-left libs turned out to be pretty shitty too.
  5. Nah, but I'd probably keep replying because I hate seeing stupid shit go unchallenged. I probably shouldn't though.

O

  1. Voting for a candidate that supports genocide does indeed mean you support genocide.
  2. What fucking primaries?
  3. Yes
  4. Yes
  5. It gives you the same amount of power as voting.
[-] Mindfury@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

100% hit rate

the only one i was possibly considering being a debate pervert about was G4 but your edit cleared that up completely - even the lightest leftward push is frustrated by libs at all and every level.
(I still might harbour some personal libshit hope that some political apparatus can be captured hyperlocally by electoral means, but a lot of evidence points to me being fucking wrong)

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 32 points 4 months ago

The best part about these kinds of posts is that it’s a 98% chance that a white person made it and they will never dare say it to a POC in person because they won’t be able to justify why we should vote for a cracker who wants to keep throwing us in a meat grinder at home and abroad

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 30 points 4 months ago

Writing in Ruth Bader Ginsburg to comply with Tumblr lib.

mission-accomplished-1 mission-accomplished-2

Disclaimer: this is a joke, I cannot vote for RBG because I am not American, and if I were, I would focus 100% of my efforts on leaving America for Mongolia/New Zealand/Laos or something then renounce my citizenship permanently.

[-] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 4 months ago

Did you know, Americans have to pay a renounciation fee of $2350! And that's the least of their worries in the process in my opinion.

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

Ugh, and that's over $2600 with tax and tip! Better defect from a state without sales tax.

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[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

Disclaimer: this is a joke, I cannot vote for RBG because I am not American

Skill issue. I am not an American either, but I voted for Hillary Clinton seven times in 2020. My Master, Vladimir Putin, ~~forced~~ convinced me that IT IS HER TURN!!!!!

[-] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

I hope that all non Americans respond to American liberals with how you’d never vote for Biden and all the reasons why. Then when they get upset enough, reveal you’re half way across the world and not a citizen

[-] citrussy_capybara@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago

criticises “Agree with me or shut up”
https://dragontastical.tumblr.com/post/748035315876446208/fuck-it-ill-just-block-people-rapid-fire-again
sets up blog to not be viewable unless logged in so they can block anyone who disagrees

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 29 points 4 months ago
[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 6 points 4 months ago

Democratic centralism

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 26 points 4 months ago

I don't fucking care if you vote for Biden or not. Whatever. It's literally not important. Do literally anything else that doesn't involve bending over for the democrats. Do literally any political action that isn't voting once every four years and harassing people online. Fucking go join a union or hand out food. Make a community garden. Do literally anything that will actually impact the way people live their lives if you want to be taken seriously.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 25 points 4 months ago

”Voting for a candidate is endorsing everything about them.”

Isn’t that exactly what they’ve been saying about Trump voters for the last eight years?

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 23 points 4 months ago

Gonna vote for dragontastical as my write-in candidate because they convinced me to vote with this bingo card. I'm sure they'll appreciate itthink-about-it

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 21 points 4 months ago

liberalism stalin-gun-1 stalin-gun-2 "Agree with me or shut up"

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

"You need to read [blank]" being on there says it all

[-] NewLeaf@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

If "________" isn't Harry Potter, you have lost the argument, sweaty

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

"I know more than you"

projection

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 4 months ago

Death to Amerika

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Didn't get a bingo. All I crossed off was "I know more than you," "Liberal," and "agree with me or shut up"

[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

Whining about elections on Tumblr isn't going to change the outcome.

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

Lotta vote brain on tumblr

[-] bazingabrain@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

dragontastical my fat fucking nuts

[-] yewler@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago

I love the top left one. Pretty sure it's not that people don't understand that, I think they just don't care lmao. Not caring about that particular thing is their entire point. Sounds like there's a certain lib who doesn't understand anything

[-] eraj344@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I mean, Biden has done so done well, with more of the AmeriKKKan-Mexican wall being built, failure to protect abortion, failure to protect queer and trans lives from fascists in RepubliKKKan SStateSS, more damn KKKops in AmeriKKKa, and a fucking genocide in Palestine.

But sure, do go on to patronize those damn non-voters for not voting blue no matter who.

At least with KKKonservativeSS, they'll just do it (even though the movements of it are fucking dangerous.) With liberalSS like these, they do it, but pretend to support the oppressed with their fake words to deceive them. This is why I use KKK and SS to replace letters because of these fucking smug KKKunts.

Death to AmeriKKKa, and to the liberal and fascist movements of it. amerikkka

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