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thank you Serbia (l.tta.wtf)
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Post by tumblr user "lizardsfromspace": "People still doing 'do you think voting can fix this' memes when the answer to the question 'when did voting last end an authoritarian regime' is 'two days ago'"
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[–] 25 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Yeah. Anyone who thinks "vote and everything will be fixed" is just as delusional as the person who says voting doesn't matter. Serbia did way more than just vote and so far they've only voted out the authoritarian leader. They still need to tackle all corruption built up over the years. This is not the end, if anything it's a start.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

    "Just" voting would have stopped Trump in both 2016 and 2024. Until the opposite is proven, it is extremely stupid to not vote in 2026 or 2028 in the US from an assumption that voting alone does not work.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    And "Just" voting stopped Trump in 2020. But because everyone was happy that Trump got voted out nobody cared to fix the underlying problems that got Trump elected in the first place Trump won again in 2024.

    Just voting is not enough. You need to hold your politicians accountable and make sure they represent your interest not the interest of corporations. If you just vote in democrats and a democratic president but you let the establishment democrats continue to serve the corporations that vote is meaningless because your material conditions won't improve, discontent will continue growing and eventually someone like Trump will be back in office because they have sweet little lies to whisper into the ears of desperate people who will take it into their hearts and vote accordingly.

    The proof is right there, you just refuse to see it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (3 children)

    Nobody saying to vote is saying all you need to do is vote. We are saying voting matters and if you don't vote you're as good as a fuckin MAGAt.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    The person I replied to literally did say just voting would've stopped Trump. They didn't say voting and holding your president accountable or voting and making sure the right steps are taken to prevent Trump again. How am I not supposed interpret it as "voting is all that matters"?

    And I didn't say not to vote. Voting matters but voting is not the be all end all that most Americans believe it to be. See 2020 to 2024 when it was time to permanently stop Trump but people didn't give a shit because they had already voted Trump out. I'd say the OP post has the same "voting solves all our problems" vibe, which is why I commented in the first place. Just voting won't save America.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Barely half of eligible voters vote in the midterms. Like twenty percent vote in primaries. People largely don't vote and that's part of the problem. People largely don't vote because they're idiots that think the parties are the same and listen to idiots that say the parties are the same in spite of literally all the evidence. And yeah, if people actually fucking voted it would have stopped Trump like it did in 2020. If voting didn't work republicans wouldn't be trying to take it from you. Voting in every election is the bare minimum every citizen should be doing. But let's be honest, none of your community outreach is gonna matter much once they're going door to door.

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