Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance...

• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No, I didn’t cement any victory, I literally said I didn’t vote. The voters cemented his victory, not me.

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  • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are a voter and contributed accordingly.

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    • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • 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 "

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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