#YOUR VOTE NEVER MATTERS

[protectoroffaeries]

i have a lot of leftist friends who are very strongly pro-voting and i have a lot of leftist friends who are very strongly anti-voting and i'm always telling them the same fucking thing: being a condescending asshole about your voting perspective is not going bridge that difference. it is just going to drive a further wedge in our movement.

[hussyknee]

[insanostyle1231]

omg i keep forgetting that people who think abigail is abusive are real. im gonna have a stroke

"she hits him" i played rdr1 and i saw that scene. dude she was play-hitting him she was being playful like *smacksmacksmack* "where've you been huh? where've you been?"

like idk that scene didnt exactly sound at all abusive to me bc shes also making sure john wasnt convinced by bill/javier/dutch to be an outlaw again and tear the family apart

and about the occasional "nagging" ..... i think john doesnt mind that too much ha

edit: and the slapping in the early chapters of rdr2 does not count bro it was deserved (and also slapping is the least of that guys worries at that point)

[magdaclaire]

the fact that the grand majority of felons in the united states are unable to vote sends me into a rage like no other

[bijoumikhawal]

"Biden is the best choice and he's actually really empathetic and reasonable but also you can't wait for a candidate that won't do genocide and war crimes because to become a presidential candidate you have to be willing to do that" see what you fundamentally don't understand is I'm not waiting for a candidate that won't do war crimes, because I know that. I cannot morally stomach this system, it's a joke to claim its democratic, and AMERICA DELENDA EST. this country is a plague on this Earth

[answrs]

anyway since this apparently needs to be said again, anyone insisting it is immoral to vote in any election, especially not the US Presidential election this year, is getting immediately reported and blocked for election interference on-sight.

get the absolute fuck off my blog if you think "actively campaigning on dictatorship and having me and anyone like me raped and then murdered the moment he's installed" and "not liberal enough but can be pressured into it" are "def the same!!!1!!"

[fourthapprentice]

because i feel like people keep forgetting: voting for someone further right than american democrats will never be positive for foreign countries. joe supports genocide bc he’s not actually on the left. going more right will not improve any conditions for the people who are already suffering

[nomaishuttle]

like youve been saying the fucking Omg just vote blue and the democrat fairy godmother will solve everything! for fucking years and it hasnt fucking worked and youre still like omg its bc we didnt believe in the spirit of democracy hard enough! like idfk man i feel like at this point maybe we can just throw a grenade into congress i feel like thatll be a bit more fucking productive

[bloodyke]

next person to bring up project 2025 to fearmonger support for genocide joe is getting blown up i cannot stand you bitches

[purgeturbia]

sorry to be usamerican on main but given the fact that trump actually didn’t alter us domestic policy in any irreversible way (besides the supreme court which has now stagnated again anyway in terms of membership so even if he were reelected he likely wouldn’t be able to change it further) and the democrats have barely done anything to change the course of domestic policy in terms of the environment and immigration and police brutality and all those other things that people hate republicans for doing nothing about i am allowed to be angry with biden actually. for being a genocidal old man who talks about progress but does nothing for it, for his hypocrisy and his spinelessness and his hiding behind his party’s small victories to shelter himself from the backlash of the war crimes he is actively funding. i am allowed to not want to vote for biden. i am allowed to be repulsed by the idea of it. does that mean i will vote for trump? absolutely not because he repulses me too. I haven’t yet decided whether i will go against all of my morals and vote biden or vote third party and risk throwing my vote away, but the point i am trying to make is that you can’t use “oh but trump is worse” as a shield when functionally they are the same. you can’t say “trump would be worse for palestine” when if nothing changes everyone in palestine could be fucking nuked by the time trump would even be elected. you cannot be so blindly devoted to your party loyalties that you cannot see the world outside the us and think for one fucking second about how your vote really truly affects that. you are not morally superior for supporting democrats above all else — not above all other parties, but above everything, as ive seen people do. you are a coward if you can’t see that your choices have the potential to be just as harmful as the choices of those you have labeled as “bad” and “inferior.” maybe your vote for biden ends up being the best path forward, but you have no right to act like the path is a righteous one.

[alternis]

i feel like all fandom related polls should have an option that says "I don't know enough about this to have an opinion"

not only does it ensure more accurate data collection, it also serves to humble everybody who votes in the poll when the 'most people don't care about this' option inevitably wins

[sharkieboi]

next big bracket polls thing got dropped and listen. i’m not a sports person but i was raised by Intense Sports Persons and i just. that’s not how you make brackets. people of tumblr who desire to run a bracket poll please please please learn how to make brackets.

[ae-xoshidae]

If you are baffled by Gunwook's position, let me remind you he stayed on top 15 the whole show while being hated by both korean and international fans, being evil edited and his only friends (possible alliances) being his direct competition. That means he wasn't anyone's filler and still kept going up. Some of the other trainees? Fillers, token even. Gunwook was always within the top 9 of every mock korean 1 pick, always on the top of Japanese 1 pick, if you cared for him and saw how his fans were moving, you would know him debuting, specially in top5, was to be expected.

[theworld-accordingtocasey]

The petty gremlin in me wants the republicans who won’t vote for McCarthy to keep up the good fight and not cave in to his nonsensical refusal to step aside LOL it has nothing to do with it being the opposing party, it’s just the principle for me

[eowyntheavenger]

Americans, these are things we are NOT saying in 2024:

"Voting blue won't solve anything." Yes it will: if enough of us do it, it will solve a problem called Trump's second term in the White House. We unfortunately live in a two-party system. If you refuse to vote, you're effectively voting for Trump. I shouldn't need to explain this to people, yet here we are.

"It doesn't matter who's president. Both candidates are the same anyway." No, they are REALLY not. Biden was never my first choice, and his shipments of arms to Israel are despicable, but don't try to tell me even for a second that a second Trump term would be the same for the world as a second Biden term.

"But voting blue won't fix [fundamental underlying problem in America]." Voting for Democrats cannot fix every issue, this is true. But by saying this and ONLY this you are discouraging people from voting by making them feel hopeless. Voting is one of many tools in our arsenal, not the only tool, but an important one, and it does matter.

"You shouldn't vote blue, you should do [other thing] instead." See above: you can vote and protest and organize at the same time. It's not either/or. You can do it all. Stop discouraging voters from exercising their rights under the guise of leftism.

"Voting is just legitimizing government power. It makes you part of the system." Literally just shut up. Women and people of color didn't fight for their voting rights to have you say things like this. If you live in America and you can legally vote, then you should fucking vote, and vote blue. There is no neutral option.

"Voting blue just makes you complicit in [this bad policy]." Inaction, and allowing Trump to have a second term, is worse for the entire world than any Democrat policy. Yes, even that one. Voting is not about finding a perfect unproblematic candidate. It is about choosing the lesser of two evils.

"Voting doesn't work because—" STOP IT. STOP DISCOURAGING PEOPLE FROM VOTING.

You know who wants you NOT to vote? Trump supporters, that's who. You should be suspicious of ANYONE who is suggesting that your vote doesn't matter, or that both candidates are the same, or that Biden's policy on XYZ means you shouldn't vote for him. Trump supporters aren't trying to get your vote by saying, "Vote for Trump!" They're trying to get your vote by DISCOURAGING YOU FROM VOTING AT ALL.

I don't like Biden either, but Trump is unequivocally worse. Voting doesn't fix everything, but it is the minimum fucking requirement of living in a democracy. Voting for president has real, tangible, immediate impacts on people's lives, and choosing not to vote is not the rebellion you think it is, it is just relinquishing your voice. So fucking vote. THIS IS A GROUP PROJECT AND DAMN IT WE ARE NOT FAILING BECAUSE OF YOU.