concern trolling for voter apathy isn't radical it's boring
concern trolling for voter apathy isn't radical it's boring
claim 1: “voting doesn’t change anything”
Never forget the recent case of Kris Mayes, who refuses to uphold the Arizona supreme court’s sweeping ban of abortion.
Kris Mayes only won her 2022 election by 280 votes. Voting changes things.
claim 2: “but genocide joe”
Yep. Hold that fucker’s feet to the fire. He has blood on his hands
But trump has promised to be indisputably worse.
I won’t tell you how to vote. I just encourage you to vote. You’re not radical for ditching the only miniscule right the state has granted you to do some small aid for your neighbors.
According to Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN, the Obama administration absolutely committed war crimes. Voting matters, and no matter what you think of Biden he is infinitely better than Trump, but don't roll your eyes and pretend that the people complaining about extrajudicial murder-robots are crazy. Credible institutions believe Obama violated international law with his drone program, you don't get to pretend that's fake because you don't like it.
One person is a politician, and one is a rapist con artist. I'll take the politician please.
"Voting doesn't change anything" is a thinktank tactic of saying "Don't vote unless you're gonna vote who I discreetly like"
In Quebec, we have a saying that I would like to share with you. It comes from our love for complaining. We are completely addicted to complaining about everything. It's our third national sport after Hockey and curling.
"If you don't vote, you can't complain"
If you vote for a person and they don't do the promised thing, you can complain. You have an
excusereason.If you vote for a person and someone else gets elected, you can complain that the person you voted for would have done a better job.
If you do NOT vote, you didn't do shit. You didn't do the strict minimum. You have no excuse to complain about any of it, because you did not participate in the decision.
It is rather convenient that 2024 is the year everyone is choosing to be upset about dead Palestinians, but double tap drone strikes are definitely a war crime.
https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/Publications/Rome-Statute.pdf
I won’t tell you how to vote. I just encourage you to vote.
I genuinely hate this shit, because its so nakedly dishonest.
We played the game back in 2000 with Ralph Nader and "I don't care who you vote for, so long as you vote" collapsed into "Ralph Nader helped George Bush Jr steal the election" minutes after the polls closed in Florida. Then we played it again in 2016, when Jill Stein was accused of being a Putin shill. The Republicans played it in 1992 when (not entirely unfairly, Perot reviled Bush Sr for taking a foreign policy position of reconciliation towards Vietnam) Ross was blamed for George's abysmal poll numbers following Desert Storm.
Anyone who says this, while expressing any serious degree of interest in the outcome of the election, is simply lying.