In a matchup between Biden and Trump, many young voters say they might choose silence.

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    10 months ago

    If you don’t vote, you may lose the opportunity next time. Fascists don’t exactly like democratic voting systems.

    Politics is messy. This just sounds like a bunch of over-privileged naive people who are afraid to get their hands a little dirty.

    Your vote isn’t a valentine, it’s a chess move.

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      Sounds much more like propaganda to sow intergenerational infighting (and it’s working), to me.

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        The whole “boomer” rhetoric was that kind of propaganda as well. It is all effective means to divide and conquer voting blocs who, regardless of age, should be united against Republicans, and it works very well.

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      I blame the whole “voting changes things” culture. We tell kids that voting and politics means something and then when they learn how it actually works they get disheartened.

      If we lower their expectations I bet they would vote more. Drop the idea that government will be responsive and filled with intelligent statesmen. Forget about any sort of relief or change. Vote for the one who will make politics boring. Vote because these idiots don’t know anything and couldn’t govern their way out of a paper bag.

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        Voting clearly does change things. It’s how we got Trump, and he changed a lot of things for the worse. It’s how Texas got Greg Abbott and Florida got Ron DeSantis, both people who’ve been changing things a lot.

        Maybe you can’t get the charges you really want, but it’s just as important to prevent bad changes.

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        Oh yeah, telling people, “Oh don’t worry, nothing will change and we will head endlessly into the climate change cliff! Your future is fucked and nobody cares to enact change, all you can do is creep further into corporate dystopia while voting for people who do nothing to stop it.” Great plan, I’m sure that will galvanize young voters.

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        10 months ago

        “For nothing.” Lol.

        Yeah, surely they’re not trying to remove him for clearly and obviously violating the 14th Amendment, which bars insurrectionists from office. Or trying to put him in prison for stealing top secret documents, lying about having them when the National Archive requested he return them multiple times, showing them to people without clearance, and trying to systematically cover up evidence that he had them. Or asking the Georgia Secretary of State to “find him” the votes he needed to win in 2020.

        Bruh, the fuck are you on?

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        Literally violated some of the biggest laws in the country. So blatantly that literally everyone saw it.

        “For nothing”

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        The fun part about people like you is that literally TREASON is not a reason to not vote for him. Which is why we have laws against that shit.

        Who cares if he sold state secrets to Saudi Arabia, possibly endangering American lives. He seems like a stand up guy to me!

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        I don’t know where you get your information, but I guarantee it’s a terrible source. You think the fascists are opposing fascism, and that the people who tried to do a coup to steal democracy did nothing wrong.