• Empricorn@feddit.nl
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    6 hours ago

    I guess we should actually try it first before succumbing to defeatism in advance, no? There’s a lot more of us than there is of them… What is it people say about the 4 Boxes to be used in defense of Liberty:

    1. soap
    2. ballot
    3. jury
    4. ammo

    “Please use in that order.”

    (That’s a quote from Frederick Douglas)

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        46 minutes ago

        Oh? Did people show up to vote when we told them how important it was? No? Hmm, then I guess we didn’t actually try the ballot box yet…

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          I guess you’ll just have to vote harder champ! I’m sure if you can just convince everyone to vote harder enough, this time, bloviating about how smart you need to be to engage in “strategic voting”, even when that strategy has been demonstrated to fail, it’ll be different this time! Its not you or the Democrats that need to change. No. It could never be that.

          Any time now. Any time.

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            The fact you’re so defensive about this speaks volumes. Your condescension doesn’t change the fact: 90 million people didn’t vote.

            I can repeat it, but I can’t understand it for you. We had 2 different candidates. I’m sorry neither swept us off our feet, when everyone warned what was coming. Perfect? Of course not, but still better than the fascism and corruption we’re witnessing as they tear our country and alliances apart…

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      Exactly. We’ve never actually used our voting privileges. Not really.

      Whenever I hear the argument that voting doesn’t do anything, I cringe.

      When people show up (not just for presidential elections), shit gets done.

      But Muricans are lazy and expect others to do the work for them

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        Australia has mandatory voting and the mining industry still owns this country.

        Just because America makes it cheap to buy an election doesn’t mean it could ever be unaffordable.