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If you didn’t vote then you voted. Got it.

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Correct. If you didn’t vote then you are spineless, a coward and lack any morals. You saw fascism coming and ignored what everyone said and then decided that it wasn’t worth the bare minimum effort of voting.

If you did not cast a ballot and you were eligible to do so then the things I want to say to you would get me banned from lemmy and probably arrested.

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I mean my vote hasn’t mattered in the last 2 elections. My state hasnt flipped blue since Obama. There’s a lot of situations where voting is a waste of time. Making that not be true is what’s going to increase voter turnout, not trying to shame them for something they’re not responsible for

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And if everyone in your state who thought that actually decided to vote then it might have actually made an impact.

See previous message.

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K. That doesn’t explain your nonsense about “If you didn’t vote then you voted”.

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It literally does. Your reading comprehension skills are not my problem.

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Correct. If you didn’t vote then you are spineless, a coward and lack any morals.

Not correct, if you didn’t vote you didn’t vote period.

People saying and persuading others to vote for murderers with blood on their hands are much bigger spineless coward with no morals.

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That’s still a choice though.

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Inaction is still a choice, so not voting means you’re ok with this. Voting or not voting, you still made your choice in November and here we are.

People saying and persuading others to vote for murderers with blood on their hands are much bigger spineless coward with no morals.

That’s the most bullshit argument to justify your shitty choices and is textbook DARVO. Not voting for the lesser murderer means we get an even bigger one who will actively increase the suffering, and it’s hilarious to me how you’re trying to pretend that voting to prevent more genocide is cowardly. But cowards love to pretend they’re not cowards and blame others when they don’t have the stones to make hard decisions. And lol, using morality to justify letting trump genocide people home and abroad shows you have none.

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You sound like one of the idiots my grandfather tried to warn in Germany in the 1920s before he got the fuck out and came to America on forged papers on a Japanese fishing boat

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Nope. It is dead correct. If you were eligible to vote and you did not vote then you should feel horrible. You should feel attacked. You should feel like everyone hates you. They do. You decided that fascism wasn’t important enough to vote against. You decided to go “Well both sides suck” when one side was actively planning genocide and destruction of the United States.

You do not get to have a say. Why? Because you didn’t vote. You decided not to use your voice so guess what? You don’t get to have one here.

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Not engaging is also a choice, a very shit one in this case. You either contributed -1, 0, or +1 to a fascist takeover, sure 0 might be better than +1 but taking a neutral stance against such a dogshit prospect really puts the chair in armchair revolutionary, and doesn’t make you much better than the cheeto worshippers.

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Not voting at minimum makes you more dumb than MAGA… At least they understand voting can bring changes.

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True, and that’s despite most of them believing it’s rigged anyway lmao

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OP is saying +1 = 0.

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Both sides were pro-genocide, you need a multi-party system

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We do. But until then, everything they said stands.

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We need systems where we vote for policies rather than parties.

Absolutely nothing will be fixed until we do.

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Imagine saying that with a straight face with one side has just declared they want to very actively partake in the genocide and just do the job themselves.

This is like saying giving a murderer a knife is the same as going in with a machine gun yourself.

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You’re complicit in the result, correct.

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That’s not what OP said. He said not voting is voting.

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14 points

Silence is consent when it comes to politics. Always has been; always will be.

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Is consent the same as voting for something?

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Did you do anything to stop the violent ego maniac in the White House? No? Then you’ve cooperated with him.

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Ok, now explain how not voting is voting.

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Abstaining affects the outcome as much as voting does.

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