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A vote for Genocide Joe is a vote for Genocide

updated link as the lemmitors removed it for being "political" and then reposted it to politicalmemes

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[–] Rom@hexbear.net 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Me waiting for someone to point at any time withholding your vote actually brought about measurable change in a positive direction.

Me waiting for someone to point at any time unconditionally promising to vote Democrat has actually brought about measurable change to the Democratic Party in a positive direction.

also lmao at them posting this to .world where they know we can't respond. @Jennykichu@lemmy.dbzer0.com come here and say that to our faces you fucking coward.

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Me waiting for someone to point at any time withholding your vote actually brought about measurable change in a positive direction.

The qualifier at the end there is because there's lots of proof that moderates/independents threatening to vote for Republicans or not vote has in fact forced measurable change out of Democrats on many occasions.

I have been thinking about this more and more lately, and I think the push needs to be for people to vote for a third party if they have the option or otherwise leave a candidate blank, not to stay home. If people just stay home, the Democrats can waive them off and keep moving the party to the right. If Genocide Joe loses because a bunch of people voted for a third party candidate to the left of Biden, they can't ignore that easily.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

That's one of the merits of the "uncommitted" thing, is people are still going and voting and it's just not for Joe

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