• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    I love how uneducated people didn’t vote at all

    They’re not uneducated. They’re desperate, and they spent the last 8 years watching both parties ignore how much they’re struggling. Why miss a day of work when you know your vote doesn’t matter?

    Also, you need to ditch this smugness if you want to win people to your side.

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      16 days ago

      They’re not uneducated.

      They clearly are since they acted against their best interests and only the uneducated and insufferably weak willed work against themselves.

      Also, you need to ditch this smugness if you want to win people to your side.

      you seem to be under the misconception that I’m trying to win people to my cause. I refuse to pander to their absurd ideals and will not coddle them like children.

      point blank, I don’t give a damn about their fragile sensibilities about whatever political wedge they want to believe in on a whim.

      the people who refused to vote, that allowed this to happen, could rot in the streets as far as I care. They are simply a distraction from the true enemy, Russia and China.

      I will do everything within my power to resist Russian and Chinese aggressions. I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I know I’m going to do everything I can to be a huge pain in the ass for them.

      this includes but is not limited to the netizens who have and are spreading their propaganda.

      every raging river starts as a flowing stream.

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        16 days ago

        Apathetic != uneducated. Plenty of people don’t vote because they can’t be bothered to.

        My own mother refused to register for DECADES because “I don’t want to be picked for jury duty.” Not making that up. I finally convinced her to register after pointing out jury duty also comes from drivers license records.

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          16 days ago

          Apathetic != uneducated. Plenty of people don’t vote because they can’t be bothered to.

          sounds like they failed American civics, which makes them uneducated.

          My own mother refused to register for DECADES because “I don’t want to be picked for jury duty.”

          sounds like your mother failed civics as well.

          Not making that up. I finally convinced her to register after pointing out jury duty also comes from drivers license records.

          I bet you were frustrated. Now imagine 20 million Americans refusing to vote to stop a literal Nazi from gaining power again. I would ask how you would convince those 20 million but it doesn’t matter anymore.

          when you fail to vote, you lose.

          when we fail to vote, we all lose.

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            15 days ago

            Yup, and the sad part is, I called it before the election. The only reason voter participation was up in 2020 was because Covid restrictions encouraged vote by mail.

            Without the vote by mail push, participation was going to drop, and because the Democrats benefited more from vote by mail, it was going to hurt them.

            Surprise, surprise, that’s exactly what happened.

    • Ridgetop18@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      16 days ago

      Spend 8 years watching both parties ignote their struggles, and then vote for the one that’s actively promising to make them worse?

      Bold move, Cotton.

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      13 days ago

      No… no they’re uneducated and it’s very much the correct word in this.

      Regular rants “Why won’t Biden just get rid of student debt?” Because the Supreme Court stopped him. Twice. Telling him it’s congresses job.

      “Why hasn’t Biden helped the economy” CHIPS act and moving major manufacturing back to America. Gonna take time for it to spin up after so long of sending jobs out of country but it’s gotta go. Also some of the biggest infrastructure movements since the New Deal despite the Republicans in Congress trying to stop it.

      The big hit during election of people googling “Did Biden drop out?”

      Yea. That’s uneducated.