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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] mindbleach 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So basically you won't be voting.

You will make no measurable impact on the outcome of the election. The election where one of two specific people will take power. And one of them already tried to end American democracy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She can win if you vote for her 😘

[–] mindbleach 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No she fucking can't.

Grow up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Grow up and vote for the genocide, sweaty.

[–] mindbleach 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tell me with a straight face The Idiot would do anything better, vis-a-vis Israel. Lie to me good.

Moral dilemmas don't go away if you smug at them hard enough.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

First candidate to not support genocide gets my vote.

[+] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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[–] mindbleach 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes, idiot child who thinks alternating caps is a counterargument, grow the fuck up.

I am eligible for the US presidency. I am equally likely to win. I am fucking nobody. So is your masturbatory, performative waste of a vote.

Don't allow fascism to seize a country just so you can feel smug superiority. Asshole.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Third party candidates might have a chance if we convince our political leaders to switch to ranked choice voting, so we'll be able to write "I'd like her to win, but I'd still prefer Biden to Trump" on our ballots. In that case, even if the rest of the nation didn't agree with us, we still wouldn't have someone who calls immigrants vermin in the white house. With first past the post, nobody who doesn't have a D or R next to their name has a ghost of a chance.

No one knows who Claudia de la Cruz even is. Unless you want to become her campaign manager, that will still be true in November. Even if you did, and even if you managed to convince two thirds of the people who would've voted for Biden to vote for her instead, Trump would still win because half the nation voted for him and only a third voted for her.

She doesn't have a chance. Grow up and don't waste your vote. Way things are right now, you only get one.

[–] mindbleach 5 points 8 months ago

Ranked Choice is a specific use of ranked ballots and it kind of sucks. You want Ranked Pairs.

Or just Approval Voting, where people check every name they like. Same ballots as now. Most votes wins. It is literally that simple and it matches optimal results. There is no good reason it's not the default. What we're doing now just plain sucks.