• Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Then you abide the greater evil. The choice of not taking a side is still itself a choice. If you have friends, family, colleagues that would be effected by the outcome of the election, and you decide to not participate, you are doing them a disservice.

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          4 months ago

          George Carlin would have been smart enough to realize the dangers we were facing. I’m not a huge fan of Biden or the DNC but my vote will be a vote against Trump.

          • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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            Lol, George “They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it” Carlin?

            He’d be telling people to quit putting their faith in politicians, not yelling at them to shut up and vote.

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              You might care if someone close to you, who was a closeted gay, is ripped out of their home one night and never heard from again? Maybe a family member, with a black spouse, is lynched for daring to marry a white woman? Or, even closer to home, perhaps a tweet or post you made from 2010 suddenly becomes against a decency law and you’re questioned, tortured, and jailed for it?

              At what point, exactly, would it behoove you to care? When it’s your neck on the line only?

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        Why should you care about politicians and vote when they don’t do good things?

        It goes both ways.

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      I say this with a 100% genuine and serious tone: this is a truly, truly stupid take.

      I really, earnestly, sincerely mean it. Vastly stupid take.

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      To anyone that genuinely doesn’t like either party, I think that you can still vote for a third party in the US? The system is rigged against them, but any little helps.

      Or just ruin your ballot to show dissatisfaction in the status quo and maybe give the counters a good laugh.

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        You screw the Canadians, Mexicans, Ukrainians, and a bunch of normal countries around the world, not to mention some other friends across the pond.

        Protest voting is exactly what Trump is hoping people will do because he knows his constuency is too small if people turn out to vote in greater numbers.

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          Oh yeah, voting for the “lesser evil” is what people should do. But if you’ve already decided to vote for neither anyway, you may as well protest vote for the benefit of whatever world exists next election.

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            Probably a managed democracy like Russia. I wouldn’t be suprised if Trump ‘ran’ for a third term after this one. He’s going to fuck the voting system if he wins again. Not to mention all the horrific shit in project 2025, which will fire most of the non-aligned government staff running stuff like NOAA. Good luck with hurricane and fire predictions when the head of NOAA is some Amazon author, lmao.