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[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 84 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] KurtVonnegut@hexbear.net 49 points 11 months ago

Daily reminder that more Bernie supporters voted for Hillary in 2016 than Hillary supporters voted for Obama in 2008.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

25% percent of Hillary supporters switched parties, coining the slogan "party unity my ass"

A decade later they would spend 2 election cycles blaming people who didn't support her in spite of her doing everything g she could to pass them off.

[-] edge@hexbear.net 53 points 11 months ago

I like how this backs up the liberal assumption that your vote is somehow worth two votes because not voting also somehow gave an extra vote to the Republican.

[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 51 points 11 months ago

Voting Democrat: 1 vote for the Democrats

Voting Republican: 2 votes for the Republicans

Not voting: Somehow 4 votes for the Republicans

Not being a registered voter: 20 votes for the republicans

Not voting for the Democrats because you criticize them from the left: 8,000 votes for the Republicans

it's just electoral science :nate-silver:

[-] panopticon@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Never voting: not even permitted to comment, by rules of lib civility

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[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 52 points 11 months ago

The most infuriating thing about electorism obsessed libs shame tactics, is that they somehow imagine that its all going to come down to one vote. Which has not only never happened, but is even more ludicrous in the massively anti-democratic presidential elections

[-] AntiOutsideAktion@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

any election that comes down to a margin anywhere near that gets decided by lawyers

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

or by Brooks Brothers customers

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[-] Ho_Chi_Chungus@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

is that they somehow imagine that its all going to come down to one vote

hey what happened last time it actually did come down to a handful of votes? dubya-paint

[-] PoY@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 11 months ago

but it didn't actually iirc.. there were so many schemes going on just to get it to the point where it seemed like it was an even split..

florida adding tens of thousands of people to the felon list who had never been charged with or convicted of any felonies.. votes were lost.. hanging chads... what a goddamn circus this country is

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[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I often hear them say "if you don't vote for our guy, it's a vote for the other guy!". It's like a child's approach to politics. If I don't fucking vote, it's literally just that. Not a vote.

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

tbf it’s less about your individual vote and more about the entire bloc of leftists who won’t vote for Biden. e.g. if Biden loses by 1000 votes and there were 2000 leftists who refused to vote, it’s obviously their fault.

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Maybe it's bidens fault since those 2000 people have explicitly outlined what it takes to get their vote for decades and dems electoral strategy has been "go fuck yourself and if you dont like that it's your fault we lost"

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[-] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 50 points 11 months ago

Having the red guy still win when the blue guy gets more votes would make it more accurate to american "democracy"

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[-] AssaultRifle15@hexbear.net 46 points 11 months ago

Oh, you think the bombardment of Gaza is bad? What if it was happening under a president that handled the situation exactly the same but didn't kind-of-sort-of pretend to feel bad about it? Does that sound like the kind of world you want to live in?

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago

The only difference is that if Trump were president every elected Democrat would have "from the river to the sea" in their bio.

But since it's a dem president they just tell those same protestors to shut up because they're hurting their electoral chances.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 13 points 11 months ago

nah they wouldn't 180 even to own Trump, the party is zionist.

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[-] BynarsAreOk@hexbear.net 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 33 points 11 months ago

If you haven't already moved to Wisconsin to vote in 2024 you don't really care about the state of American democracy

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[-] Beaver@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

You simply cannot fathom the magnificent wisdom and vision of the Founding Fathers smuglord amerikkka-clap

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[-] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just wanna say how wild it is that in 2000 bush lost the popular vote by 0.5% and won the electoral college by 5, a small enough margin that I remember people at the time saying that it was extremely unlikely and would probably never happen again, and then in 2016 Trump lost the popular vote by 2% and won the electoral college by 77, an absolutely huge amount.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This also completely ignores the fact that it just doesn’t fucking matter for 99% of people. nothing ever gets better. “Nothing fundamentally will change.”

[-] Adkml@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Really don't understand why there isn't stronger support for the president who explicitly told young voters "nothing will fundamentally damentally change" and "I have no sympathy for problems faced by young people"

Clearly it's because they don't understand politics is voting for people who constantly tell you to go fuck yourself because otherwise they won't make as much in consulting fees.

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[-] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 34 points 11 months ago

The Republican should still win even if smugman votes democrat because the electoral college means his state doesn't matter

[-] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 33 points 11 months ago

This discourse is fucking unbearable. Thinking that voting is "what everything comes down to" in politics and therefore harassing the far left for not wanting to vote for genocide joe is just wrong and cringe. At the same time insisting on not voting is predicated on that action mattering at all in the first place. Either that it's somehow a way of moving the democrats to the left or that your mortal soul will be tarnished for the sin of voting for a lesser evil.

I know that's very edgy aloof take but I'd rather not be wasting any bandwidth even thinking about national electoralism.

[-] quarrk@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

It’s not edgy at all, you are correct. Electoralism in the US takes the wind out of progressive movements. It replaces direct action with campaigning and “letting the system work” until any progressive momentum has dissipated.

Leftists should literally stop talking about elections as if they aren’t happening. Vote for whoever you want, it does not matter. I want to know what you (figurative “you”) are doing in real terms of organizing and direct action, not who you voted for to ostensibly do those things on your behalf. I don’t say this from a moral high ground btw, I really should do more myself, but I at least understand the reality of my laziness and I’m not going to be phone banking or whatever the fuck next November.

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[-] ChapoKrautHaus@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

GOOD meme, now do a 3rd iteration with the commie guy voting in the 2022 Donbass referendums

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[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 26 points 11 months ago

I saw the meme too and I think the best way you can change it is making the blue guy win, you still get fascism (so same as your post) but then in 4 years you get supercharged fascism because the Chuds were mad the blue guy wasn't fascist enough, and no one did absolutely anything to oppose the blue guy out of fear red guy wins.

[-] SkibidiToiletFanAcct@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

>"Hmm Today I will donate all but $1 of my net worth to the Biden-Harris 2024 Campaign"

>"Biden loses by a single vote(which been could've been captured if they had $1 more to spend on an advertisement), causing vast amounts of harm which easily exceed the value of $1"

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago

this meme is too french macron

[-] the_kid@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

manhattan

it is 2016, people are arguing about voting

it is 2020, people are arguing about voting

it is 2024, people are arguing about voting

[-] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

shit I'm not even going to vote labour at the next election can't imagine voting democrat

[-] AlpineSteakHouse@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

I've given people strokes by blaming the lesser evil people for the current situation. I always say if they bit the bullet and didn't vote for one election during the 80's they would have forced the dems to stop being so shit but now they've lesser eviled themselves into just evil. Flip the script and watch them flounder.

Of course it wouldn't matter because communists are not turning elections regardless but they either have to admit your vote doesn't matter or lesser evil voting is stupid.

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