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Where? Vote or don't: it doesn't really matter.
Yeah, never heard that one before. For ome reason, every election is the most important o our lives. How often does this have to be repeated until you guys figure out that the wholesystem is fucked?
Will this problem ever go away if electoralism is the only option? That shit has been going down for years/decades now. Or at least: the electoral system itself has been disenfranchising the people for decades to reach the fascistic state you're in right now. What makes you think that voting harder makes those problems go away?
Never believe that the wealthy let you vote away their power.
I don't want to convince anyone not to vote. Just that it doesn't matter.
Yeah that's because they legitimately are. Every single Republican president in the last 50 years has been an absolute disaster for this country and the entire world. Many of the Democrats have as well, but all of the Republicans have.
Show me the part where I said or implied that electoralism is the only option. Look at this meme:
That's the meme that this discussion is about. This whole discussion is about who to vote for. Arguing about who we should vote for is not an argument against doing anything but voting. I never said electoralism is the only option.
Can you at least understand what I mean when I say that this rhetoric does convince people not to vote, whether you want it to or not? Saying [activity] doesn't matter is effectively, whether you want it to be or not, an argument against doing [activity], and it does convince people not to do it. It's a large part of why, like I've said multiple times in this thread, there are presently women in prison for having miscarriages.
Again, like I've said multiple times in this thread, Americans need to spend the 1,460 days between elections organizing, campaigning, rioting, burning down buildings, etc. But on the first Tuesday of november, they need to go to their local polling location and vote for the person who isn't going to enact sodomy laws in this country. Because if they don't, the person who wants to enact sodomy laws in this country will win, enact sodomy laws in this country, and people who engage in sodomy will have their lives ruined and it'll be because people like you told Americans that it doesn't matter if they vote.
Again, like I've said multiple times in this thread and in this very comment, there are presently women in prison for having miscarriages because not enough people voted in 2016. If more people voted in 2016, these women would not be in prison for having miscarriages. ELECTORALISM DOESN'T SOLVE EVERYTHING, BUT IT COULD HAVE SOLVED THIS THING IF MORE PEOPLE VOTED.