Political Memes

gotta ask yourself if you want a chance to fix things or no chance at all. with trump, its no chance at all

Literally why Israel got trump in office

votes third party

No not like that

Seriously though, I think it's important to confront and admit that voting for the lesser evil does legitimize the evil they do, even if the greater evil does it worse. Because critically digesting both that fact alongside the fact that voting for the lesser evil really does result in better outcomes for society is what will actually get the hesitant on board with going and doing it. If you try to dismiss or handwave that fact, you are dismissing and handwaving the very real concerns of the disillusioned non-participants. Acknowledging the dissonance is far better.

I think it's also important to point out that while direct action and social organizing are the most effective things things you can do to change society, they are incredibly time consuming while voting usually takes 5 - 30 minutes. And if you're actually interested in the former, there's little to no excuse to avoid the latter.

Just whatever you do, don't shame people for being disillusioned. That makes people really dig in their heels.

Shouldn't you be more concerned with the parties caucuses? Since you have a two-party autocrcacy anyways

First of all, half the non voters would vote republican (unless you actually believe democrats are just actually lazier people than republicans?!).

Second of all, 99% of the shit trump does wrong is just plainly wrong under both parties "values." It doesn't matter what party this is way bigger than party this is about an enemy of the state controlling the white house.

Also the democrats keep voting to fund his government, instead of shutting the whole damn country down, which is in fact necessary because an active unrepentant child rapist is controlling the white house and he's starting illegal wars and stealing billions of dollars. So, to vote in the house or the senate for even one dollar of taxpayer money to be entrusted to donald trump as the chomo-in-chief of the executive branch is in and of itself treason worthy of capital punishment.

So yes, fuck the democrats who have voted to pass budgets that hand trump trillions of dollars that he treats as a blank check. Domt tell me dems are the best way to get him out of power, tell me who to vote for to express my desire that the federal government ceases functioning immediately until he gets out. Because this whole lets vote him out ive been hearing it for ten fucking years now and yet here we are. Stop telling me to wait for November, shut the whole fucking thing down today. This guy rapes children and we're letting him do anything??? Why?? Shut down the government light the constitution on fire because literally zero authority for anything good in the world can exist while the "leader of the free world" is a rapist murderer who is grifting billions of dollars. Like it just has to stop, fuck the vote, just stop this fucking maniac who slathers his face in orange paint and rambles about how the epstein files exonerated him!!

Oh is it the time of year for liberals to start telling us we can no longer complain?

The largest non-voting registered group in the 2024 election were those associated with neither party: independents and unaffiliated voters.

About a quarter of eligible voters aren't even registered on top of that.

"Both sides are bad" statements aren't necessarily driving partisans to not vote. They are, or can be however, an important message for those two big parties running the elections to hear from the people.

It's also, possibly one of the few talking points that forces acknowledgement that those independent, unaffiliated, and unregistered voters exist and whose interests might matter towards the outcome of policy and/or elections.

But yes, the interests that align with at least the GOP are furthered when votes are suppressed, that has been demonstrably true for decades.

That's like saying the US is good for materially enabling Israels genocide in Palestine because the US is killing people more indirectly than Israel.

Critique has nothing to do with voting.

I don’t think “both sides are bad” is designed to keep people from voting. It’s meant to give the people that follow the definitively worse of the 2 sides a justification to keep voting the same way.

The real problem is that both parties have convinced most people that striving to change the voting system that produces the two-party system is pointless.

As long as that system exists, this useless and polarizing debate won’t stop and evil and corruption will continue to flourish.

The land of freedom, choice and competition doesn’t want freedom, choice and competition in its elections. Think about why that is.

Voting is an illusion of choice. At best, you’re voting for a personality. Who voted for these flock cameras? Who voted for this war with Iran? Who voted for citizens united? I can go on and on.

It's either:

• There's a big fat online conspiracy to deter people from voting in the US even though voting in the US is the thing that truly determines how the country is ruled and other things such as Money, have no or minimal influence in how the US is managed.
• First Past The Post undemocratic voting systems like the one in America create political duopolies, which are populated by people in well entrenched power positions who when not in front of the cameras are basically work mates and protect each other. Further, the extreme political stability of such system attracts people who become lifers in that system, selling their political influence to the highest bidder in order to enrich themselves, and the politicians of both facets of the duopoly have a shared interest that such selling out is either not illegal at all or, when illegal, de facto not prosecuted, so together they'll change laws and nominate the "appropriate" people to the Judicial system to make sure it is so.