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Your vote is one vote among many. You need to convince everyone else to vote with you too, including the politicians that get elected. Otherwise, you need to r
by 8note 4y ago
Your vote is one vote among many. You need to convince everyone else to vote with you too, including the politicians that get elected.
Otherwise, you need to run for yourself.
You won't get what you want done if you don't participate, and voting is the bare minimum of participation you can do
- kodyo 4y agoVoting does fuck all and everybody knows it. The only beneficiaries of the ability to vote are the tyrants who get to blame the result of their depravity on the people they oppress: the "voters."
- juuular 4y agoMaybe federally (or even state-wide). Locally you can have a MASSIVE impact, and local politics in many ways trickles up to the national level. edit: ymmv, hard work & organizational skills still required
- School-Cotton 4y agoMy neighborhood council is not the one doing mass wiretapping. That’s the federal government (and, presumably, the central governments of other countries too).
- newZWhoDis 4y agoLocal politics is a sham. My local AT&T fiber node is not being tapped by my local government. Traitorous elements within the NSA conspired to defraud the United States by violating our constitutional rights and tap my local fiber grid. If you make $150k/year half your paycheck goes towards funding traitors to the United States of America, funding people actively seek to undermine the constitution.
- the_only_law 4y agoHow? If I live in a town/city/state/whatever where 70% support party X unquestionably what good is voting in the elections going to be if I support the Y candidate? I’ll always be outvoted unless the local majority absolutely fails to show up. I met a guy running for congress a couple years back and had some discussion. We didn’t align politically but he seemed like a genuine guy who cared about helping people in his district more than reciting the party line and joining in on culture wars, and ultimately that screwed him out of the election. The only time I can’t understand voting is in swing places where a small margin can make a difference, but even then I wouldn’t vote given some of the people on both sides running.
- newZWhoDis 4y agoNo one voted for the bay of pigs. No one voted for MKULTRA. Stop pretending these organizations represent democratic interests, or are beholden to democratic forces. We pay for them, but they do not serve us.
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