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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 99 points 1 week ago (66 children)

Voting is one of many tools at our disposal - and right now we need all the tools we can get.

So, don't shit on voting - do vote!

Do the other things too, but don't skip the vote.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Vote in the preliminaries, where you can select which bag of shit you'll get to vote for officially. You may even end up with a decent choice on election day off your area is dope like NYC or Seattle.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Even if you're stuck in the cousin-fuckingly-deep south like me, where your vote will almost certainly be washed out by a horde of Nazis: still do it. Especially in smaller elections - school boards, city level stuff, whatever you can get in on. Those are the ones where you can really start to turn the tide. All it takes is for the usual rednecks to start feeling apathetic, and a handful of us bleeding-heart-commie-socialist-hippie-libruls to step up, and BAM, we've got a progressive oasis elected in our desert of red. Which still isn't much, but it's a foothold.

But it does require us to do the bare-assed minimum amount of effort in support of change, which is to vote.

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[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 68 points 1 week ago (21 children)

You should definitely vote but it shouldn't be the only thing you do.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 week ago

Just you wait another few more years and I'm gonna vote so hard it'll make your head spin

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

bro just one more vote bro, bro I swear just one more vote and it'll fix democracy bro

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Now's not the time for that we can't afford four years of Vance. We need to hold our noses and vote for Skeletor so we can stop the spread, then focus on progressive issues

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 29 points 1 week ago

Skeletor, we want to vote for you so Vance doesn't win, but stop supporting Hordak destroying Eternia

Skeletor: Hordak has a right to defend himself

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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is this not also true for liberals who aren't white?

[–] Twongo@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 week ago

yes. i did not create this image

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[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

you know what hitler? i tried to reason with you but you have left me no choice. i will be voting for somebody else. good luck earning my vote back fuckstick, you’re gonna need it.

[–] Kieselguhr@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

This but the election is between Himmler and Eichmann

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (38 children)

Weird how voting always seems to work for the right wing

Maybe voting would actually work if…you know…you actually voted

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

My mom said that you gotta vote if you want to complain and I do like to complain.

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[–] jackeroni@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago

Lemmy libs next year: "VOTE FOR BLUEMAGA EVERYONE"

[–] Adverse_Reaction@anarchist.nexus 27 points 1 week ago (11 children)
[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Thanks for sharing. It's not bad, except for the lack of class analysis. Assuming the Democrats are principled and will always be opposed to fascism, is sadly wrong. They are exactly like those conservatives who always prefer fascism to socialism.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

Okay analysis. Awful solutions. All that just to say what someone far smarter than him had already said: political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Fascists seize state power once they believe they have enough political power (ie the means of dispensing organized violence through a military or paramilitary formation). They are only stopped at the local level by antifascists willing to get their hands dirty, on the national level by the state military that refuses to go along, and on the global level by state actors.

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[–] mech@feddit.org 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Chile actually voted out their dictator.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago

then what happened

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

how white liberals think fascism works

Chad voting in a UN resolution condemning Israel's treatment of Palestinians in Gaza

you're finished

Official portrait of Benjamin Netanyahu

no, pls

[–] jali67@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I mean this isn’t a “white lib” thing. Most people don’t want political violence or related.

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago (12 children)

And yet political violence surrounds us. How do you propose voting will stop it? I've personally seen that fail for decades now.

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