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[-] TrashGoblin@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

Great, I get to choose between two real estate developers for city council. Guess I'll vote for the one who doesn't have a history of domestic abuse.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

First past the post doing what it does.

Still worth pulling the "less evil" lever for, you know, less evil.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago

yeah people keep saying that but i've been voting for less evil my whole life and all i get is more evil

[-] becausechemistry@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Typical hexbear user

Either you’re creating anti democratic propaganda or you’re consuming and regurgitating it. Fuck off.

[-] TomBombadil@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago

Typical hexbear user observing the world. Maybe next time if you vote hard enough it'll finally work

[-] nublug@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 11 months ago

yeah i'm sure not voting definitely will change things

oh wait

and before you go on about doing other stuff than voting, you know that voting doesn't keep you from also doing those things? not voting is just bad, no good. you're not giving the state the finger you're laying down and saying 'do with me what you will idc.'

[-] GoodbyeBlueMonday@startrek.website 7 points 11 months ago

Precisely. I voted today and it took a few minutes of my time. There was still plenty of time in the morning to keep working on the things I think will make more of an impact re: improving things somewhat. Mutual aid and anything else in the bucket of "resisting tyrannical government" is much easier when it's only +1 more evil rather than +10.

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

Nah I think the people who constantly make the most barbaric decisions or excuse why they can't revert them are the ones being anti-democratic.

Wouldn't those with the power given to them by the population who then act against what those voters want be the anti-democratic ones?

I struggle to see how potential voters pointing out they never get what they ask for is the reason for any of our problems today.

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