• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    No Josie, I think you’ve got 💯 the right of it and that your downvoters are all idiots. I’ve caught multiple bans here, there and elsewhere specifically making the exact points you are right now. So most importantly I want you to know you aren’t alone, and you’ve got friends here that both agree with you, and have also suffered the slings and arrows the, frankly reactionary, Lemmy userbase.

    It’s a fucked system and your vote is the only thing you have. Withholding it for some kind of policy position is literally the only thing that has been demonstrated to be effective at moving political actors over the previous 20 years of politics. You are making the right choice.

    • timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works
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      It does move politicians… To the right.

      Because dumbasses who don’t vote aren’t courted. Same reason politicians don’t bother with young people. Because statistically they don’t vote. But all those old fucks do. It’s why social security never goes away but Medicare for all never comes.

      You guys are down voted for stupid ideas. Not because Anyone is “reactionary”.

      • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Yeah except you are just completely ahistorical and wrong. The preponderance of evidence supports my position not yours.

        • Djtecha@lemm.ee
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          Well vote for the candidate you want. Write it in. But sitting home and just ranting online is dumb. Also posting snarky lies about lack of policy that is clearly defined in the damn link makes you look like an idiot at best and a plant at worst. You want a discussion then OK have one but when you open with that garbage then there’s really no point in doing anything other then dismissing you.