Do you seriously think that I believe protest voting/non-voting is a brand-new phenomenon and relegated to lemmy only? That it doesn’t happen every single election? That people don’t try and reason with them every single election? And then when they inevitably never listen- that people don’t try and warn them what will happen to those with brightly glowing bullseyes painted on them should they decide to pout and stay home?

Seriously? This your first time?

Because I’ve been here before. And a long time ago, I was on the other side of this. Luckily, I grew up when I saw the consequences of my entitlement. Thankfully for me, it was during a time when I was afforded the luxury of things not being like they are today. So the consequences of my stupidity weren’t as severe and I didn’t have to live with the idea that I hurt anyone with my selfishness.
Now… people are going to die because somehow, these idiots got it in their head that perfect is the opposite of “but I don’t like it!”

Lastly… I hope they’re proud of themselves, because what is happening now? Yeah… he isn’t even in the warm-up phase of what he’s about to do to us. So maybe go on and tell them they should take their bow now while there’s still people remaining that are ignorant enough to think that somehow- they’ve managed to do something by doing nothing.

I think we can agree to disagree and end this here as I don’t see any ground being moved from this.