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196 Stands with Palestine, but those of you in the US should still vote in the general election. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by moss@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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I've been seeing a lot of anti-voting sentiment going around. Can't believe I have to say this, but you need to vote. Not only is there more to the election than just the president. (State policy, Senate, house), but not voting is not an act of protest. C'mon guys

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[-] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'll proceed to describe in this post the gigantic amount of political change and sweeping reforms we will achieve when we valiantly protest against the system by not voting up until we get the turnout to 10%:

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Yes! Under Trump's dictatorship there WILL sweeping changes, just not the ones you think. I mean ending democracy in this country will be a change. But you'll sleep well (until the gestapo comes for you) thinking "you showed them!".

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Yep. We need A LOT more leftists to show up before protesting the vote is useful. As much as I hate Democrats, we're not there yet. I'll vote Biden, but I'll lose sleep over voting for that disgusting ghoul. Still better than the alternative, until the alternative includes dismantling our whole entire system.