Our system isn’t set up that way, so feel free to throw your vote away, but please don’t convince others to do that. Some of us don’t have the luxury of indulging in protest votes.
And you are actively participating in your own oppression, knowingly voting for a candidate when you’ve seen for four straight decades that either ruling party is going to make your life demonstrably harder.
Do you like paying double for your groceries?
Do you like that your rent is skyrocketing?
Meanwhile they make hundreds of billions appear out of thin air for other countries’ wars.
But the choices we have in a general election are:
Vote for the candidate you hate least
Not vote at all and accept whatever the worst candidates are doing to you
Vote for a fairytale candidate (this and option 2 have identical results)
Violent uprising
The Trump cult is hard at work on options 1 and 4 while deploying millions of bots and thousands of bad actors to encourage everyone else to go with options 2 and 3.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s what you’re doing when you vote Green.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
… In places where you don’t throw your vote away by doing so
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You throw away your vote by voting Democrat and Republican.
How badly do they have to fail before you stop doing so?
bibliotectress@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Our system isn’t set up that way, so feel free to throw your vote away, but please don’t convince others to do that. Some of us don’t have the luxury of indulging in protest votes.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I’m not from USA by the way.
But you need ranked choice voting or equivalent for your vote to mean anything at all when there’s a few dominating candidates
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No, you’re giving half a vote to whichever of the 2 major-party candidates you hate more.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And you are actively participating in your own oppression, knowingly voting for a candidate when you’ve seen for four straight decades that either ruling party is going to make your life demonstrably harder.
Do you like paying double for your groceries?
Do you like that your rent is skyrocketing?
Meanwhile they make hundreds of billions appear out of thin air for other countries’ wars.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yep. All bad things.
But the choices we have in a general election are:
The Trump cult is hard at work on options 1 and 4 while deploying millions of bots and thousands of bad actors to encourage everyone else to go with options 2 and 3.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In Germany, certainly