• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Thank you, exactly. Yelling at Lemmy libs who are altogether more likely to vote against the current administration than any other group I can personally name is a complete own goal, unless they’re actively trying to get genuinely horrified Americans to get discouraged and not vote at all, which is another tactic I’ve seen here and personally called out I can’t even count how many times.

    Doesn’t matter. I’m voting anyway, and spending less time where I can see that shit to begin with.

    And for anyone who can look at their own country and see a diverse set of individuals, but has no problem with looking at another country and seeing only one great homogeneous caricature – that they then screech at personally because yeah, that’s gonna help so much – I got a bag of dicks they can eat.

    . . . while I go vote anything but R, and bring my neighbors too, lol.

    • korazail@eviltoast.org
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      4 hours ago

      Thank you. I feel so discouraged when I see people who should be our supporters, who spout things like ‘fix your country’, pick at an individual who is trying to make things better because they aren’t working on their specific thing.

      I just can’t see any flavor of ‘both sides’ as anything but support for the oligarchs. The more people engaged, the more collective power we have and the less a few billionaires can control us. By engagement, I mean more than just voting: Join your local precinct and be or support the delegates that work their way up to the national conventions. This applies to democratic and republican alike.

      Anything telling people their votes don’t matter or won’t change things only concentrates power in the people who already have it.