Get off your high horse. You did make a choice. You chose to not make a choice.
And with the way that electoral calculus and bias works in the US, not voting is disproportionately harmful to Democratic candidates, and disproportionately helpful to Republican candidates. You helped this happen by not voting.
You gotta get in the building first. Back in 2016, me and a friend went to vote. I would have voted Vermin Supreme (legit candidate no less), and my buddy planned on writing in Batman.
We stood in line for around 2 hours. For about the last half hour of waiting it was raining. Around half of everyone knew the weather forecast and had an umbrella, including us.
They closed the voting place (library) down at 8pm sharp, and the cops told everyone in line to go home. We were probably 150~200 people back in line.
We all waited that long, even in the fucking rain, only to be ordered to leave?!
If it matters (which it probably does), our state doesn’t have early voting, you get one day to do it and that’s it.
Wait 2 goddamn hours, partly in the rain, only to get shut down with around 200 people or so waiting to vote?!
Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.
Having worked the polls: if you are in line to vote, you get to vote. The cops do not have any grounds to order you to leave your polling location because it’s “too late”. That is a violation of your rights as a citizen. The correct response is “make me; and if you do, I’ll have your fucking job, officer”.
Eh, a Trump scenario was inevitable unless people grew balls and voted for someone like Vermin Supreme. You have to be the first one to vote third party.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
What a wonderful response, objecting against someone that would have actually voted if Pete would have stayed in the running.
Like, why is it always a heads/tails coin decision?
And what the fuck is up with the Electoral College?
felbane@lemmy.world 2 days ago
By not voting at all, you cemented Trump’s victory.
You don’t get to say “well I wanted it to be different” now.
Do better next time.
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, I didn’t cement any victory, I literally said I didn’t vote. The voters cemented his victory, not me.
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You are a voter and contributed accordingly.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Get off your high horse. You did make a choice. You chose to not make a choice.
And with the way that electoral calculus and bias works in the US, not voting is disproportionately harmful to Democratic candidates, and disproportionately helpful to Republican candidates. You helped this happen by not voting.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Rush - Freewill freewill
"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice "
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
What skin would it have taken for you to just pull the lever for kamala?
Maybe youre saving it for “the one”
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I, like most Americans, know we only get one vote! Gotta save it for that perfect candidate!
/S obv
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You gotta get in the building first. Back in 2016, me and a friend went to vote. I would have voted Vermin Supreme (legit candidate no less), and my buddy planned on writing in Batman.
We stood in line for around 2 hours. For about the last half hour of waiting it was raining. Around half of everyone knew the weather forecast and had an umbrella, including us.
They closed the voting place (library) down at 8pm sharp, and the cops told everyone in line to go home. We were probably 150~200 people back in line.
We all waited that long, even in the fucking rain, only to be ordered to leave?!
If it matters (which it probably does), our state doesn’t have early voting, you get one day to do it and that’s it.
Wait 2 goddamn hours, partly in the rain, only to get shut down with around 200 people or so waiting to vote?!
Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Is that what happened in 2024 as well?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Having worked the polls: if you are in line to vote, you get to vote. The cops do not have any grounds to order you to leave your polling location because it’s “too late”. That is a violation of your rights as a citizen. The correct response is “make me; and if you do, I’ll have your fucking job, officer”.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Eh, a Trump scenario was inevitable unless people grew balls and voted for someone like Vermin Supreme. You have to be the first one to vote third party.