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[+] -12 points 1 week ago (17 children)

If this is your situation and you can't even vote for the lesser of two evils or tactfully, you can spoil your ballot. It shows that you are not represented by the options given but also still believe in the need for representation and the democratic system. I drew a box that said none of the above.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 week ago (15 children)

    And your vote got tossed in the box after being electronically tabulated like everyone else’s where no human ever even saw it. That guy’s actually accomplished something.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (14 children)

    And what did clambake's vote accomplish, that tazeycrazy's didnt?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (11 children)

    One more vote for the least bad option. One less vote for the worse option. The other idiots ballot was spoiled and so contributes to whoever wins. Our system sucks but it isn't that complicated. Too complicated for tankies and both sidesers though.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago* (10 children)

    And what did that accomplish? From what I see: absolutely nothing.

    You know what contributes more to the Republicans winning? The Democrats refusing to do what their voters want, on easy to win topics, and the Democrat voters pretending that they are worth supporting.

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

    How does your solution of letting republicans win benefit the people? Explain in detail with examples please.

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

    I didn't let the Republicans win, the Democrats did. They had the chance to run on popular policies that helped out the voters, but instead chose to support the Republicans, and help build out fascism.

    Here's a great example: Seattle raised their mimimum wage, made the rich pay more taxes, and helped Amazon workers fight back against Amazon, becuase we elected a Socialist who faught against the Democrats.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (5 children)

    The democratics are doing what their voters want insofar as they can without having any real power the last decade. What you're actually wondering if why the democratic party doesn't cater to the progressives and general public that don't vote in primaries or generals for democratics. But why would the democratic party cater to non-voters? They don't vote. May as well be republicans. You fix that by running progressives and voting in the democratic primaries. It's a pretty simple system. Too complicated for both sidesers though apparently.

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

    The democratics are doing what their voters want insofar as they can without having any real power the last decade.

    Well, no. None of that is true actually. They had plenty of power under Biden and Obama, but chose to screw over their voters instead of helping them out.

    What you’re actually wondering if why the democratic party doesn’t cater to the progressives and general public that don’t vote in primaries or generals for democratics. But why would the democratic party cater to non-voters? They don’t vote.

    No, I'm not wondering that at all. They don't cater to progressives and the general public, because their rich doners tell them not to. They also know that those people won't vote for someone who fights against them. To get more voters they could run popular policies that people like, and then actually deliver on them. Hell, there was a whole movement warning Harris that she was going to lose votes if she kept running unpopular positions, and she told them to sit down, and shut up. So she lost votes.

    If they delivered for the people, then the people would vote for them. You have your cause and effect backwards.

    May as well be republicans.

    So you think people who don't want the US to back genocide, and want policies that help the workers are just like Republicans? Because that doesn't make any sense.

    You fix that by running progressives and voting in the democratic primaries. It’s a pretty simple system. Too complicated for both sidesers though apparently.

    And what have the progressives accomplished? They've had power for a long time, and spent it all pretending that the Democratic leadership weren't horrible monsters.

    I want a party that fights for the people, not to keep the monsters in charge.

    It’s a pretty simple system. Too complicated for both sidesers though apparently.

    And yet you seem the be the one that doens't know how it works. 🙄

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Ok so you're clearly in bad faith because your first statement is demonstrably false. You're working for MAGA. That or you're actually stupid enough to just blatantly declare that you have no actual understanding of the structure and function of the federal government, but most likely you're another rusbot trying to discourage midterm turnout.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Do you prefer the smell of shit or rotten food? Both are bad, yet you still probably prefer one over the other. But if you turn up your nose when presented with the choice then you don’t get to complain about intestinal parasites or half-digested corn when someone plops a big pile o’ shit on your plate.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

    Do you not understand that “none of the above” isn’t runnng? Someone will get elected regardless of your forfeit to whichever side wins- and you just surrendered your vote to them.

    Congrats on the hard work it must have been to intentionally still not learn how shit works this entire time. It must have been exhausting.

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