• gustofwind@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Weird how voting always seems to work for the right wing

    Maybe voting would actually work if…you know…you actually voted

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      11 months ago

      Once fascists win power democratically, they have never been removed democratically. Not once. Ever.

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        11 months ago

        Not once ever? Not even when Trump lost the 2020 election despite the jan6 raid on the capitol?

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          11 months ago

          Which just resulted in a different fascist being elected, and then Trump got reelected anyway?

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          11 months ago

          The government wasn’t anywhere near as fascist then as it is now.

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        11 months ago

        And yet, we’re seeing GOP reps resigning in critical and contested seats that have been demonstrated to lean far more towards the Dems, especially when Dem-Socs are on the ticket.

        We shouldn’t just vote, but not voting will ensure we never get out of this mess.

        The MAGAts wouldn’t be trying every voter suppression trick in the book if voting wasn’t currently still a colossal threat to their power

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      11 months ago

      Americans: “Our FPTP two-party electoral college system doesn’t work. Clearly democracy doesn’t work.”

      Meanwhile in Canada we just voted for dental care. Europeans just voted to take on big tech corporations.

      I think the problem is years of “it’s not my job to educate you, sweetie”. Turns out it is our job to educate them. Because they vote.

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      11 months ago

      The right have gerrymandered and bet million bucks rigged the voting machines too. Always projection with them. Look at Mitch McConnell and Lindsay Graham voting districts. I read years ago that they have it rigged that they could never lose even if people voted.