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You have no right to hold this over people's heads, and even implying a tit for tat arrangement is suggesting that anyone who doesn't "do more than just vote" isn't doing their part. Some of us have demanding jobs, kids, family that requires care, or other demands that do not allow time for political activity beyond voting which has already been made extremely difficult in some areas.
In short: get fucked. Go vote. Don't try to create some kind of one-upsmanship game that predicates your civic responsibility on someone else's volunteered time.
It's intended to be hostile. Maybe you were "being cheeky" (I doubt it) but it doesn't read that way in a text format and a lot of people making those same statements are not. What makes me so upset about this situation is people like yourself not taking it seriously. We are, without hyperbole, looking at an honest to God threat to democracy and you are making if/then statements about your willingness to vote. Trying to shame people into being more politically active is the wrong way to do it.
I am tired of people treating this like it's a game, and I am tired of people being flippant about voting for the lesser of two evils.
You have no right to hold this over people’s heads, and even implying that someone who does “more than just vote” isn’t doing their part. Some of us have demanding jobs, kids, family that requires care, or other demands that do not allow time for voting instead of attending the occasional local better-timed rally which has already been made extremely difficult in some areas.
In short: get fucked. Go do activism. Don’t try to create some kind of one-upsmanship game that predicates your civic responsibility on someone else’s volunteered time.
Get hooked up with Election Science to switch your elections to approval. Pick-all-you-like voting really helps make people feel like they actually got to voice their opinion at the ballot box.
Yes, actually, everyone urging for pragmatism at the polls should be willing to take steps other than just voting.
What do you suggest? I'm for this. What are good steps? I want to get from where we are to a voting system that allows me to choose a different candidate without wasting my ballot.
Doubt.
That you'll execute on that specific conditional.
So my doubts have been confirmed. Glad you fell on the side of voting anyways.
If you think I'm being ridiculous, I could flip through my history and find a dozen folks who would unironically holdfast to the letter of your original comment.
So is your vote contingent on whether people in this thread demonstrate that they have/will "do more than just vote"? If they don't, will you abstain from voting?
I guess I'm unclear.
Like I said, there is an alarming number of people on Lemmy who would say what you're saying without being cheeky at all.
I'm glad to know you are -- but that's why you're getting the reaction you're getting.
If that kind/amount of reaction is alarming, it should be, right? We shouldn't have to be that on guard.
< someone who thinks going to grammable rallies and left signaling online counts as "more than voting"
It's more than nothing at all. Are you suggesting we should just vote and otherwise lay down and wait for fascism to descend upon us?
I'm saying that if you mother fuckers didn't have to be dragged kicking and screaming to fill a piece of paper out every four years, we'd have never gotten this far with.
Forget Hillary, Bernie could have won the primary if y'all spent the energy on voting that y'all bring to whining endlessly about how your privilege blinds you to how much it changes for people who need it the most.