What skin would it have taken for you to just pull the lever for kamala?
Maybe youre saving it for “the one”
What a wonderful response, objecting against someone that would have actually voted if Pete would have stayed in the running.
Like, why is it always a heads/tails coin decision?
And what the fuck is up with the Electoral College?
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
KingJalopy@lemm.ee 1 day ago
I, like most Americans, know we only get one vote! Gotta save it for that perfect candidate!
/S obv
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You gotta get in the building first. Back in 2016, me and a friend went to vote. I would have voted Vermin Supreme (legit candidate no less), and my buddy planned on writing in Batman.
We stood in line for around 2 hours. For about the last half hour of waiting it was raining. Around half of everyone knew the weather forecast and had an umbrella, including us.
They closed the voting place (library) down at 8pm sharp, and the cops told everyone in line to go home. We were probably 150~200 people back in line.
We all waited that long, even in the fucking rain, only to be ordered to leave?!
If it matters (which it probably does), our state doesn’t have early voting, you get one day to do it and that’s it.
Wait 2 goddamn hours, partly in the rain, only to get shut down with around 200 people or so waiting to vote?!
Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Sooo… I’ve never had a chance to see the inside of a voting facility. Not for lack of trying though.
Is that what happened in 2024 as well?
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
He acts as if people being actively deterred fron voting is a good reason not to vote. Its a troll.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nope, I was in a different state that day, unscheduled trip.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Having worked the polls: if you are in line to vote, you get to vote. The cops do not have any grounds to order you to leave your polling location because it’s “too late”. That is a violation of your rights as a citizen. The correct response is “make me; and if you do, I’ll have your fucking job, officer”.
over_clox@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
When the pill workers go home and lock up, what am I supposed to do, break in and turn the machines back on?
The poll workers should have protested, the potential voters couldn’t do shit.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Eh, a Trump scenario was inevitable unless people grew balls and voted for someone like Vermin Supreme. You have to be the first one to vote third party.
felbane@lemmy.world 1 day ago
By not voting at all, you cemented Trump’s victory.
You don’t get to say “well I wanted it to be different” now.
Do better next time.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
No, I didn’t cement any victory, I literally said I didn’t vote. The voters cemented his victory, not me.
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
You are a voter and contributed accordingly.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Get off your high horse. You did make a choice. You chose to not make a choice.
And with the way that electoral calculus and bias works in the US, not voting is disproportionately harmful to Democratic candidates, and disproportionately helpful to Republican candidates. You helped this happen by not voting.
over_clox@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Well riddle me this…
Since I haven’t had an opportunity to even go through the process of voting, despite trying, waiting for ~2 hours, only to close at 8pm and officers ordered everyone still waiting to leave, I have no experience with the actual process of voting.
So how does the process actually work? From my understanding, unless I’m mistaken, don’t people get to vote on numerous positions at once, not just the president?
Like, I’d be looking at the options and be wondering who half or more of the candidates even are, and also not even being sure exactly what the nature of their job is in the bigger picture, not knowing a damn thing about them to make any educated decision.
Also, from my understanding, in my state, if you vote Democrat, you have to vote all Democrats, and if you vote Republican, you have to vote all Republicans. Like what the hell do names and campaign goals even mean if you don’t have the option to vote Democrat for one office, but might actually like the campaign goals of a Republican for another office?
It’s like what the hell do names even matter, if I’m a registered Democrat voter (which I am), then shouldn’t they already know how I’d vote anyways?
If I’m mistaken on any of this, by all means please let me know. Please be willing to educate inexperienced people as to how the voting process even works before giving them shit for not voting after trying, only for everyone still waiting to get sent home.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Rush - Freewill freewill
"You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice "