Assuming there’s nothing stopping you from legally voting

  • Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Unfettered capitalism has masterfully created a self-serve corporatocracy that filters money straight to the political parties who, in turn, pose puppet leaders in front of the masses to grant a semblance of choice. No good will come of this “Weekend at Bernie’s” farce of an election. Under current auspices, only more greed, lies, and violence are to follow.

    Sorry, disenfranchisement and apoplexy are all that remain.

    • Tedesche@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      You’ve given into despair and have opted out entirely, which is exactly what the people you gripe about want you to do. Congratulations, you’ve surrendered.

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          4 months ago

          I encourage you to reconsider and vote for whatever you perceive to be the least of all evils. Voting is relatively easy and doesn’t require much effort. It’s literally the least you can do. Yes, may not matter in the end, but it can still inform certain statistics that can be used to support various messages and arguments down the line. If you don’t vote at all, you guarantee you have no impact. Don’t throw away the little power you have.

          • Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            Duly noted, and I appreciate your not relegating my opinion to snorting self-sourced methane expulsions.

            The harder notion for me here is that I have been voting since Bush Sr. / Clinton. This toilet keeps spinning faster as we get closer to the drain.

            Until recent years, I believed that voting was exercising my rights and fighting the good fight. Maybe I’m jaded, which I think is fair, but I do think, in light of the circus we’ve watched the the past 8 years, that we’ve entered a new arena where violence ultimately is where this is headed. Someone responded here that I have permission to be something other than sad. Unfortunately, I disagree. When the shots ring out in political rage, we’ve effectively lost our civility.

            I will reconsider my decision to not vote, but the bitterness might win out.

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              4 months ago

              Even if this does end in political violence or civil war, if you vote, at least you will have tried to avoid that fate by participating in our democracy as much as possible. Voting is just so easy to do, how can you justify not doing it as anything but laziness? It can’t hurt and takes almost no effort.

        • Fades@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          Voting is easy as hell, you have no excuse. Shame on you, quite literally part of the problem.

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      4 months ago

      No good will come of this “Weekend at Bernie’s” farce of an election.

      Hard disagree.

      Anybody who has actually followed what Trump has done / is doing vs what Biden has done / is doing knows there’s a clear distinction between the two. One is clearly a worse choice. It reads like you’re just intoxicated by the smelling of your own farts.