• ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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    6 months ago

    Not voting does nothing. It doesn’t show that you disagree, it doesn’t prevent things from happening.

    Voting for Biden didn’t change anything in 2020 either as now in 2024, we’re right back where we were in 2016 and 2020. Acting like we should just compromise our morals this time by supporting a guy funding and arming a genocide because ‘the other guy is so much worse’ is just a trap they’ve put you in because there is always going to be ‘the worse other guy’ so long as you help perpetuate this cycle.

    Voting for Dems and Republicans is inaction as you’re doing nothing but maintaining their positions of authority and maintaining the status quo. The only way this could be seen as ‘action’ is if your goal is keeping them in power.

    No one, and I truly fucking mean no one, is counting the people who don’t vote.

    This is hilarious as the other guy replying just brought up the low Democratic turnout in 2016. People are absolutely counting this. The fewer people that support these two parties, the less power and influence they’ll have. This opens up space for alternative parties, the same as it would if we were talking about businesses like Walmart and Target. You think they’re behemoths that can just survive forever without any customers, but that isn’t the case.

    If you want to cause change, then marches, protests, and disruptions are the tools.

    It’s funny you bring that up because college students are currently doing that on campuses and college administrators along with Democratic and Republican leaders are siccing the police on them and disparaging them in the media.

    Not sitting idly by while others make their opinions heard.

    Are you not hearing my opinion here?

    Until we have a voting reform

    When will we have it? It sounds like you’re passively waiting for it to arise by doing nothing other than electing the same people each election.

    Edit: ah fuck, it’s this right wing conservative account that keeps popping up.

    🙄 typical misinformation. I challenge you to quote or link to even one right-wing viewpoint I’ve given at any point in time.