• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    How is voting only for people you actually want running the country in any way symbolic? Versus just always voting for a color. This is possibly the most ridiculous thing you’ve said to me in the last few weeks.

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        3 months ago

        Oh yes I understand how you think voting works. You go in and pull the lever for whoever the party tells you or you get the stick again. But that’s not a democracy. In a democracy the party bends to the will of the people. Not the people to the party. Or else the Party gets the stick again.

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            3 months ago

            Lmao. Real democracy is a temper tantrum? Are you sure you aren’t trying to stooge for an oligarchy?

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                3 months ago

                I never said I’m not voting. I said I’m not voting for Biden. And being forced to vote for someone still isn’t a democracy, no matter how much make up you put on it.

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                    3 months ago

                    Did you go check my reddit history? My liveleak history? Read my college papers? No? You’re ridiculous.

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      3 months ago

      Because then you’re voting for an outcome that won’t exist, or even no outcome at all, and meanwhile somebody far worse gets elected instead.

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        3 months ago

        No. In no world is not voting for someone somehow a vote. You cannot coerce votes and still call it a democracy. The entire point is freedom to vote for your choice.

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          3 months ago

          Your votes do decide. The primaries selected Joe Biden in 2020, and this general election is going to be 51:49 in Trumps favor based on polls. We have a choice.