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[–] 284 points 1 week ago (64 children)

Doesn't Matter. Go vote. The bigger the numbers, the harder it is for them to cheat a victory.

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  • [+] -382 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (61 children)

    Nah, every arm is attached to the same monster. Participation feeds the monster.

    The only reason to want to vote is to be able to live in blissful ignorance again.

    Shit I feel like an evil piece of shit just having a job under their systems.

    Real change will never come from voting.

    Ignorant peace might come, but not real change for real authentic humanity.

    Our modern society exists from the "rape" of honest human beings. I'm not going to vote to continue that.

    Edit: the responses here worked? I'm voting Republican.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 week ago* (13 children)
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    You're the reason nothing ever changes, and history repeats itself.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 week ago (6 children)
  • [+] -51 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Your a slave that lives for the progression of the slave master. Indoctrinated, groomed and living your one single life existence under Stockholm syndrome.

    American success is not measure of human worth.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 week ago* (1 child)

    You're a fool that lives for the progression of the slave master. Indoctrinated, groomed and living your one single life existence under the guise that your neighbour is your enemy.

    American failure is not a measure of human worth.

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  • [–] 87 points 1 week ago (22 children)

    Wow, you’re so smart. Instead of participating in democracy I should just stay home and post smugly on the internet. That’ll make the revolution happen.

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  • [+] -94 points 1 week ago* (21 children)

    How is americas democracy real when it's all marketed and bought and sold to people?

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

    Goddamn you must be the smartest human alive to see that.

    I don’t think anyone has ever noticed that before.

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  • [+] -72 points 1 week ago (10 children)

    I take that as forfeiture of this debate.

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

    dEbAtE mE bRo

    Go back under your rock, cretin.

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  • [+] -48 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    No one at all that responded even tried to educate me. I don't know how you all see it... But that looks bad for your cause.

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

    Nobody tried to educate you because they all assumed that you are either:

    1. absolutely so amazingly, stupefyingly braindead that you are likely incapable of taking in new information and meaningfully understanding it

    Or

    1. a Russian/Israeli propaganda spreader who is only here to try and convince as many people as possible to sit out the election so that your agents can win government positions again.

    I, personally, am willing to bet it's both

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  • "No one even tried to educate me when I'm clearly starting from a position of bad faith! Waaah! Why aren't you engaging in good faith with my obvious trolling and astroturfing!? Waah!! This makes you look so bad!! WAAAH!!"

    -You, apparently.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago*

    How is americas democracy real when it’s all marketed and bought and sold to people?

    The fuck kind of dumbass non sequitur is that? Potatoes are marketed and bought and sold to people. How can potatoes be real?

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  • [+] -10 points 1 week ago* (5 children)

    Hard question that will get your screamed at by people who prefer easy answers

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago* (4 children)

    What about this is hard to understand or answer in any way? People are dunking on him because of the opposite-- the question is so easy to answer that to think bringing it up is a good point is laughably naive.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    the question is so easy to answer

    :-/

    It is, but not for the reasons you're willing to stomach

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago* (2 children)

    It seems pretty obvious that two things are true:

    • The votes people make are used to determine who gets elected
    • People try very hard to influence how people vote

    That makes it fake how exactly? Surely a fake democracy would not have the first property?

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  • [–] 106 points 1 week ago*

    I said this elsewhere but I'll repeat it for you.

    If you're unwilling to commit tax crimes to prevent your money from funding full blown fascism, then the absolute least you can do is vote against the full blown fascists spending that money.

    Write your own name into the ballot if you want to be a dumbass about it, but at the very least that would be a better protest than sitting on your hands while yelling at people how effective your hand sitting is.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago

    This has to be satire. Otherwise, I'm glad it only took getting roasted in comments on Lemmy to completely change your edgy view about the merits of voting. Since you're gonna be voting after all, I guess you want to live in blissful ignorance again.

    I particularly like how your last two lines work so well together.

    Our modern society exists from the "rape" of honest human beings. I'm not going to vote to continue that.

    Edit: [...] I'm voting Republican.

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  • [–] [S] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Wannabe anarchist throws grenade believing it's a laser pointer.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 week ago

    Funny how creatures like this always come crawling out from whatever festering pile of putrefaction they were hiding under, wherever anyone mentions voting. Almost as if there was some kind of coordination happening there.

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

    This happened on the National Mall in front of the reflecting pool. He spoke about his "success" renovating the reflecting pool, including a bunch about the pipes. Utterly disconnected from reality. A true "emperor has no clothes" moment.

    The speech was awful.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

    Wait, I thought that image was a complete meme, not that he actually greenscreened the reflecting pool for the broadcast!

    Edit: I'm a bit of an idiot, it's not a gray wall, just the water reflection. It looks a bit miserable, someone really should paint it blue or something

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

    I think that's just the grey sky reflection you see on the photo. Looks weird due to the tele lens.

    The video shows him walking around and driving around the pool in his limo

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

    How is it not news that he's "giving serious thought to renaming it the Trump reflecting pool"?

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

    Was that a rally? I thought it was just a press conference.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I don't know what you mean, its jam packed in there!

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  • [–] 29 points 6 days ago (4 children)

    It wasn't a rally, it was a deeply weird press conference where he rambled on mostly pretending relining the reflecting pool behind him was some kind of triumph of his presidency.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    Can you guys stop electing old decrepit people for your government, country, locally, or otherwise? Please?

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  • [–] 22 points 6 days ago (5 children)

    He is so going to game it to a win in his favour. You are fucked America. Vote like your life depends on it and after he steals it from you fight. Finally get off your collective asses and do something.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    I talk to people and no ones fucking paying attention. People are like frogs in a boiling pot. No idea what's going on and just watching tic tok and Instagram.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    I know a lot of black people who are listening to far right podcasts

    Hispanic voters are suicidal with their votes because they think they’re considered white

    American minorities are going to be beaten down to back to before the 60s

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  • [–] -2 points 6 days ago* (1 child)

    Ha, no.

    He's going to lose.

    I also encourage you to get off your collective asses and stop using the US dollar to trade, stop using the US military to train and support your military, stop accepting US aid, and stop enabling the USA.

    Your country is likely smaller and definitely has a much weaker military and police force, so this should be as easy as pie for you, no? Do the right thing and stop being so lazy!

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  • [–] 37 points 6 days ago (3 children)

    Saw a lot of articles about Trump that were exactly like this right before Kamala lost.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    That was more about the stupid shenanigans Biden tried to pull when he knew he couldn't handle another term. Running Kamala was a last resort that might have even worked if they didn't force her to take on the team that lost the election for Hillary.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 days ago

    What lost the election for her was Gaza. The Biden/Harris Admin was perfectly happy allowing Israel to do anything they wanted, as long as the campaign money kept flowing.

    Then they realized too late how outraged people were about the obvious genocide in Gaza, and yet she still couldn't bring herself to condemn it. Genocide is a red line that many, many people won't cross, and won't ignore, especially when it's OUR tax money paying for it.

    The Democrats actually thought that Americans would be okay with an entire oppressed population being systematically murdered by our proxies, which says a lot about them. That situation helped push me even further Left/Socialist.

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