• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    9 months ago

    Emphasis: voting works

    Any other president being voted in and out would be proof that voting works.

    Trump - and before him, Dubya - being elected is proof that money and cronyism vote presidents in in this country. In no normally functioning democracy can a guy like that get more than a single digit percentage of votes, let alone make it all the way to the White House.

    Someone like Trump being elected once - and being allowed to run again with even a slight change of winning after all that’s happened - is definite proof that voting is completely broken. It doesn’t matter whether you’re democrat or republican, this much should be obvious to anyone who’s even vaguely mentally competent and totally not a matter of debate.

    The electoral process is a dog-and-pony show to convince the populace that they have a say in the affairs of the country. It’s a placebo to pacify them. The reality is that they vote from a choice of candidates on offer that invariably come from a community of ultra-politically-connected billionnaires that have nothing in common with their constituents, based on lies spread by the media controlled by the same billionnaires. If you think that’s voting that works, you’re bonkers.

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      Nobody said that voting works perfectly, but if you want to examine voting significance relative to the extremely narrow conditions you’re talking about, we can look at how terribly conservatives have to struggle to suppress voting to infer its significance.

      If voting was not important, conservatives would not have issued injunctions to halt ballot counting, they would not steal away and hide voting machines under false pretenses, they would not fabricate and mail in forged elector certificates, conservatives would not seek to expel minority voters (who tend to vote democratic), they would not try to invalidate mail-in ballots, and subsequently attempt to shut down the USPS when they realize they cannot stop people from voting, they would not fight so hard for gerrymandered counties, they would not push forward the exact false narrative that you have fallen for.

      And yet they have done all of these things, and much more.

      Conservatives have been struggling so hard to erase and suppress the American right to vote because they know the truth.

      Voting works.

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        9 months ago

        Voting works.

        Obviously some people still drink the kool-aid in 2024.

        Ever wondered why everybody says voting is important, and it works, and democracy-this and democracy-that and yada-yada, yet things have been slowly turning more and more Orwellian and more dysfunctional for decades? Stop and think about that for a minute.

        Maybe you’ll get wise to reality at some point in your life. But don’t worry, it’s already too late: if anything, you’ll be happier if you keep your blinders.

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          9 months ago

          Are you 14?

          Your misapprehensions are all floating in the shallows, but apparently you think they’re deep.

        • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          eating healthier works

          oh yea?? why is my leukaemia not fixed by it then

          that is the level folks are arguing at when they say voting doesnt work

          voting works, voting does do something, it just isnt a fix to every political issue or a heavy handed enough approach by itself

          But don’t worry, it’s already too late: if anything, you’ll be happier if you keep your blinders

          the irony of losers pushing defeatist cynicism while complaining that ‘go vote!!’ does nothing would be funnier if it didnt come with this shit eating smug false sense of superiority

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          It’s hard for people to accept we’re not heading towards the star trek future they were promised for their entire lives lol.

          Its a real cold shock when they wake up and realize we’re in for civilizational collapse and misery.