• Alaik@lemmy.zip
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        But at least we didn’t help hurrying along the most recent great extinction!

        I wonder if anything we built will last for the next sentient species that arises.

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      And they even made things worse for the Palestinians. Fucking retards, the lot of them.

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          "They go low, We go high"is a fucking stupid appeasement strategy that has just allowed the fascist to take more and more control since Reagan and Nixon. Cut it out with this bullshit.

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      Can we give this rhetoric a rest? The voting system, the enforced lack of alternatives, hell even really the people who voted for this shit are all much more to blame than people who didn’t vote. Or how about the fact “Multiple Republican-led administrations removed voters from their states’ voter rolls in the lead up to the election”? Or the fact you don’t even vote on the week-end, which is what pretty much all civilised countries do, to give more chances to more people especially poor people to get to the voting stations?

      On top of that, how can you know what people who didn’t vote would have voted for? Some of the states with the lowest turnout are one that are historically considered more conservative-leaning (Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Missisipi, Tennessee). The results could have been “worse” (whatever that means, given the shitshow that is the Electoral College).

      Really, it feels like it’s so much easier to blame a subset of people than to confront the fact that, in the US, the majority of the population appears to be for an autocratic asshat who has claimed they wouldn’t need to vote after they vote for him. The US population, as a majority, appear to want this. More people voting may not have changed anything about that.

      It’s not surprising that voter turnout is now when you have an unhealthy democracy (because it is a symptom of it). This is a bit like blaming people for eating unhealthily when all that’s available to eat is unhealthy: you’re not wrong that it’s bad for them, but what the fuck are you actually doing do provide better options? So rather than blame those who didn’t vote, for any variety of reasons, get organising. Low turnout is a seed that was planted a long time ago.

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        And in 12 months’ time, the voting system will allow just one option. Great move, guys… great move.

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        Fuck no, no voting protest voters are part of the reason we have this sweeping fascist rule in our country. So no, they don’t get a boo hoo pass on that shit.

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      They’ll never claim an ounce of the responsibility they deserve, the fucking scumbags