• Pyrin@kbin.melroy.org
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    13 days ago

    More like Americans should just not vote anymore.

    It’s trash in, trash out. Every election cycle. A bunch of old farts scheming and playing the system to get to the ballots. All of the young ambitious politicians barely get a sniff and fall apart during the primaries.

    It’s happened over and over and over.

    • rigatti@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      We just tried the whole “not voting” thing and look what happened.

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      13 days ago

      More like Americans should just not vote anymore.

      Its not a popular take, but I agree that voting probably the least important thing any American could do, politically. Its a misattributed quote but its still a good one:

      Voting is the least important thing you can do, politically. There are somethings that have happened recently in the news that have vastly more impact, politically.

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        12 days ago

        Voting does change things. That’s why Republicans are trying to suppress your vote. So yes people do want to make voting illegal because it does change things.

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          12 days ago

          :shakes head:

          No, it doesn’t.

          Voting has such a negligible effect on policy it can basically be ignored. Its a “thing” you can do politically, but its the “least” thing possible. So minor relevant as to be largely ignorable.

    • Glasgow@lemmy.ml
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      13 days ago

      Then you’ll just get the idiots voting in fascism eventually so you’d be as well to join them to speed it up.